Thanks to all who responded. I may buy Skim though its primary function seems to be features I don't care about.
Travis stated that its not hard to get where you want to go, and that is a reasonable expectation. After hiding the tool bar it seemed to work better, but now when I quit interacting, and bring up the go to page dialog via command-option-g and interact immediately, my focus remains where ever I was previously. Page up/down also have no apparent affect. Reading this 900 page file one page at a time (toggling interacting every step) is not a viable option. If this is in fact "not hard", perhaps you can offer a suggestion? TIA and best regards. Geoff ----- Original Message ----- From: Travis Siegel To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Navigating in Preview. If you're having trouble with previews continous view, try the single page view instead. This will only allow one page at a time to be vissible to vo, so that you won't be dropped back at the beginning of the document. There's some tricks for staying where you want to be in the preview app, but it's all dependent on whether or not you're interacting, and how your cursors are set, and (apparently) sometimes where the real cursor is. It's actually not hard to get where you want to go, but it is a bit tricky, and takes timing sometimes (since you need to catch vo before it starts reading from page 1, interact with the text, then (usually) you're back where vo was, but occasionally, this doesn't happen, so you get dropped back at the start, which can be quite confusing, especially if you're new to preview, and don't know how to move around. But, if you turn on single page view, this problem goes away, with the only caveat being that you can't read the whole pdf from start to finish with a vo-a like you can if it's in cntinuous mode. hth. <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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 mac-access@mac-access.net 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/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/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/>
