Hello, well to tell you the truth wordpad isnt considered a real word processor either but I ALWAYS used it to read long documents because 1. they were in text format anyway (thats the way i scan them) and it was just so much faster and more responsive then microsoft word. I will report my experiences to apple accessibility btw. Greetings, Anouk, On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:16 PM, James & Nash wrote:
> > I remeber that in Leopard sometimes, I would have an issue where VO > would > either lose focus when it got to a new page or would stop reading > altogether. > > I know that TextEdit is described as a word procesor, but I have never > personally considered it as such. D you have a fully fledged word > procesor > on your Mac? You may have better luck. > > Take care > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Simon Cavendish" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:00 PM > Subject: Re: problems reading a document in textedit > > >> >> I regularly read long documents - I mean a couple of hundred of pages >> - in both Preview and Textedit, and I haven't on the whole had >> problems with the applications slowing down. >> >> Best, Simon >> On 3 Sep 2009, at 20:53, Barry Hadder wrote: >> >>> >>> Yes, I have reported my Safari problems. >>> >>> I wan't to slightly qualify my previous statements in regard to >>> Preview. I Don't recall it acting in the way I described in >>> Leopard, >>> However I can't be 100 percent certain that it didn't. I could be >>> wrong about that, but I don't recall it ever happening. >>> >>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Have you and others been reporting these experiences to >>>> Accessibility >>>> team? There obviously is a need for a fix. Makes me wonder >>>> whether to >>>> wait a little before I take the plunge. >>>> >>>> Best wishes, Simon >>>> On 3 Sep 2009, at 19:57, Barry Hadder wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I believe that I'm seeing a relationship between this and problems >>>>> I'm >>>>> having. >>>>> >>>>> In Safari when group mode is on, I get continuos busy and ready >>>>> messages when a content list has a large amount of items. >>>>> Navigation >>>>> also slows down to a crawl. >>>>> If I open a large pdf document in preview and pdf view is set to >>>>> one >>>>> page continuous, it stays busy for a long time. This didn't >>>>> happen >>>>> in >>>>> leopard. >>>>> >>>>> It seems to me that vo isn't able to handle large amounts of >>>>> data as >>>>> well. I could be mistaken, but there seems to be a correlation. >>>>> >>>>> I don't want to discourage anyone from upgrading as I've actually >>>>> seen >>>>> more problems fixed than I have found new ones. I hope the >>>>> problems >>>>> I've mentioned get fixed soon however. Especially my problem in >>>>> Safari. The preview thing is easily rectified with single page >>>>> view, >>>>> but I thing the to things along with what people are experiencing >>>>> with >>>>> textedit are related. >>>>> Also, it's worth pointing out that dom in Safari isn't nearly as >>>>> limiting in sl and I would say that it is much more like >>>>> navigating a >>>>> page with Jaws although I still personally prefer group. >>>>> I just want to add a note about some terminology I used above in >>>>> regards to a content list. The new group mode nest groups now and >>>>> it >>>>> seems to me that a group containing other groups is announced as a >>>>> content list. >>>>> >>>>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 12:17 PM, John J Herzog wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> I have noticed the same behavior you mentioned. It normally >>>>>> occurs >>>>>> on >>>>>> long documents, and textedit does in deed say busy after arrowing >>>>>> down >>>>>> each line. It's quite frustrating, but if you have Iwork, it >>>>>> seems >>>>>> to >>>>>> do a better job. >>>>>> Note: When I say long documents, I am referring to those that are >>>>>> several hundred pages or more in length. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 3, 2009, at 9:05 AM, James & Nash wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Could it dpend on the length of the document? This should not be >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> case >>>>>>> but I have known it happen in Microsoft Office >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>>>> From: "anouk radix" <[email protected]> >>>>>>> To: <[email protected]> >>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:50 PM >>>>>>> Subject: problems reading a document in textedit >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hello everyone, i tried again today to take my macbook pro with >>>>>>>> me >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> school today but it did not go as well as the first two >>>>>>>> times. I >>>>>>>> had >>>>>>>> to consult a lawbook (if htats the right word) and every time i >>>>>>>> went >>>>>>>> down a line i got messages like textedit busy or busy or >>>>>>>> textedit >>>>>>>> ready which made it nearly impossible to read through the >>>>>>>> document. >>>>>>>> This happened with down arrow but also vo-down. I am going to >>>>>>>> see >>>>>>>> if I >>>>>>>> have the spelling turned off and if changing the format will do >>>>>>>> anything. The computer shoudl not have been much taxdd, i >>>>>>>> mean it >>>>>>>> has >>>>>>>> 3 ghz 4gig of ram and textedit was the only application >>>>>>>> running. >>>>>>>> This >>>>>>>> was very frustrating and annoying. >>>>>>>> Greetings, Anouk, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
