Hi again Zak, I've had some odd issues with Skim recently as well where the reading is stilted. I'll try to simulate below:
"the En glish cap ital is gearing up for the 20 12 oly mpic party…" etc. Most odd indeed. Dónal On 24 Jul 2012, at 00:14, Zachary Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dónal, > I, too, am a developer, and will report this. If nothing else it might > convince them to mark mine as a duplicate of yours, which will bring more > attention to yours, one hopes. In the mean time, there is a nice PDF reader > called Skim which is accessible and doesn't show any of these odd reading > issues. More over, there are other ways to read PDF files, such as opening > them in Nisus Writer Pro, which I've found does a superlative job with > converting them into something very much like a text edit document. > Hope this helps, > Zack. > On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey Zak, >> >> Thanks for the confirmation. I've reported this numerous times; in fact >> each time the OS is updated (and I'm a dev so I see the pre-release builds >> as well) I update the bug but alas tis ignored. >> >> cheers, >> >> Dónal >> On 24 Jul 2012, at 00:06, Zachary Kline <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Dónal, >>> I, too, experience this, and have no real insight as to what exactly the >>> problem is. It baffles me, as when I was using Snow Leopard Preview worked >>> quite handily. I've occasionally been able to get variations in the odd >>> output, but nothing consistent. I would report this to Apple, and urge them >>> to fix this odd behavior asap. >>> Yours, >>> Zack. >>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Dónal Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Evening all, >>>> >>>> I've been playing with some new machines recently and I've come to the >>>> conclusion that preview is badly broken. >>>> >>>> On every single mac (all running Lion) preview when used in conjunction >>>> with voiceover does not seem to function correctly. >>>> >>>> I have my view set to single page, and either outline view or thumbnails. >>>> I open a PDF and attempt to read. All seems well except that Voiceover >>>> does not read all text which is visible on-screen. I have had my wife, >>>> who has normal eyesight and does not use assistive technology, read a page >>>> from the "about stacks" file or "about downloads" file which come as part >>>> of each new install. In all cases, voiceover is missing the last chunk of >>>> text. >>>> >>>> I have tried zooming in/out, resizing windows…. you name it but I can't >>>> figure out a way to solve this. I'm presuming I'm not unique and others >>>> are experiencing this? The reason I assume this is that I have tried >>>> Preview on a 27" iMac straight out of the box (and with no customisations) >>>> and an Air in exactly the same state. Sorry, obviously I customise the >>>> preview "view" slightly to be the same in all cases. >>>> >>>> Thoughts of others would be interesting. >>>> >>>> Dónal >>>> Dónal Fitzpatrick >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>>> >>>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>>> >>>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>>> and worm-free! >>>> >>>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>>> the list website at: >>>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >>> >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>> >>> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >>> and worm-free! >>> >>> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >>> the list website at: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> >> >> Dónal Fitzpatrick >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >> >> To reply to this post, please address your message to >> [email protected] >> >> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at >> either the list's own dedicated web archive: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >> or at the public Mail Archive: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >> >> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus >> and worm-free! >> >> Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting >> the list website at: >> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> Dónal Fitzpatrick [email protected] <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. 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