Hi Yuma,

In addition to Command-Right arrow and Command-Left arrow to navigate  
to next and previous pages in Preview, you can go to a specific page  
with Command-Option-G, then type in the page number and press enter.   
You can also go backwards and forwards with Command-Left bracket and  
Command-Right bracket the same way you do in Safari.  And you can add  
a Bookmark with Command-D just as you can in Safari.  This is one of  
the neat features that I like about Preview, since once you set a  
bookmark, it appears in the Bookmarks menu on the Preview menu bar. If  
you select your bookmark, Preview will open that document to the  
bookmarked page -- even if you haven't yet found, selected, or opened  
that document. You can also navigate through documents that have Table  
of Contents, like the Apple manuals for VoiceOver Getting Started, and  
use the Preview sidebar to view and navigate by Table of Contents. You  
can get some other pointers on using Preview if you check Tim  
Kilburn's web page about VoiceOver:

http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/preview5.html

Although these pages have not been updated to reflect recent changes/ 
additions, they're very helpful.  Note that one point of regress from  
Tiger to Leopard is that you'll need to set a hot spot (VO-Shift-1 or  
other number up to 9) to go back to your position on the page if you  
switch applications.  Just return by pressing VO-1, etc. This only  
works temporarily for your current session and is lost if you turn  
VoiceOver off.

Also, it's possible to use Adobe Reader to read documents if you have  
to -- e.g. for DRM-protected material.  It's just rather clunky and  
unintuitive, since the menu structure is complex, and you're using  
Text-to-Speech rather than VoiceOver.  It can be maddening to try to  
find the voice controls, since they're set it turns out they're set in  
the preferences menu, and the default reading rate is really slow. If  
you want to use a French voice, for example, you'll need to bring up  
Adobe Reader's preferences (Command-comma), VO-Down arrow to the  
categories table and Interact, then press "r" to select "Reading" and  
stop interacting.  VO-Right arrow to set the reading options,  
especially under the "Read out loud" heading where you will want to  
uncheck the box for default voice (with VO-Space) and select the new  
voice from the pop up button.  You'll also want to uncheck the box for  
"Use default speech attributes" so you can set the reading rate -- and  
they won't accept more than 650 words per minute.  Command-W to close  
the preferences menu.

When you use Adobe Reader, check the "View" menu on the menu bar for  
the "Read out loud" sub-menu commands and shortcuts:

Activate/Deactivate Read out loud: Command-Shift-Y
Read Only this page: Command-Shift-V
Read to end of document: Command-Shift-B
Pause: Command-Shift-C
Stop: Command-Shift-E

Use the FInder contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) to "Open with" and select  
"Adobe Reader" if you want to try this out.  Preview, is much, much  
nicer.  There's also a package called Skim, that is like Preview on  
steroids, which is particularly good for annotating what you read.  It  
basically has another sidebar for notes, in addition to the one for  
navigating table of contents.

HTH

Cheers,

Esther


Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote:

>
> Thanks James,
>
> It is one of these obvious ones again, gotta get the hang of it :)
>
> >


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