Hi Yuma, You're going to have to use a hotspot if you want to switch back to the place you left off reading in Preview. Use Control-0 (or other number, between 0-9) to set the hotpot and then use VO-0 to switch back to the hotspot after you switch applications back to Preview (e.g., with Command-Tab). Preview's behavior under Leopard is actually not as good (for VoiceOver users doing straight reading) as it was under Tiger, even though they made continuous reading possible without having to issue a command to go on to the next page. You can read Jacob's comment about this in the list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg46944.html This behavior (having to set a hotspot to return to your position on the page you're reading) is also true if you use Skim, a very similar application that has been described as being like "Preview on steroids", to read your PDF documents place of Preview. (Skim has a second sidebar that is used for generating and navigating through annotations you make to your text, in addition to the one for navigating a table of contents. See: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ if you're interested in this.) Since some of the current recommendations for Snow Leopard are to set Preview's display to single page view mode instead of single page continuous, I wonder whether you can read continuously (without Command-Right arrow at the end of each page) using Preview in Snow Leopard. Incidentally, they've been building in hooks for more functionality into Preview and the PDF files that you create when you print and save as PDF. For example, I was surprised to find after upgrading to Safari 3 (released a few months before Leopard), that PDF files printed from web pages had clickable links. That is, if you use print (Command-P) and the "PDF menu button" on the printer dialog window to save a copy of web page content via the "Save as PDF" option, and you go back to read the PDF file in Preview, clicking with your mouse on the PDF document anywhere there was an actual link on the web page will activate that link, just as if you were in Safari. Of course, the attributes that tell you this is a link are not announced, but if you can tell where they are by context and click there when your mouse cursor is on the link, you'll activate them. This also works if you copy and paste web pages or send their selected contents to TextEdit through the Services menu option. Safari will activate and play linked mp3 files, download your files, etc. The iLounge web pages have some of the best product reviews for new iPods, etc. but tend to have busy animated graphics ads, etc. (although there is a mobile version you can access with your iPhone). Anyway, when the Nano 4G was released, I sent the article contents to TextEdit so I could leave the pages, and clicked the links in the TextEdit file listen to the sound quality of the headphones, etc. HTH Cheers, Esther Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > > Hi ester, > > You seem to be the ultimate doyen of preview manipulations so i will > ask this to you :) > > I might have asked this aready but i'm not sure, or i'm cramming too > much in a little time, or even worse, my coffee is laced with some > memory erasing properties. > > I usually switch a lot from app to app. and when i read something on > preview, i also have to switch a lot to the script editor when i study > the applescript. When i am somewhere within a page in preview, ie not > at the beginning, i don't know how to hold focus on that line or > paragraph for ulterior reading. Is that done only with the hotspots? > vo 1 to 0 right? but how to bring it back up when i switch back to > preview? > > Sorry, sorry, sorry, i'm asking a lot i know...please bear with me > > Thanks and best > > Yuma > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
