Hello, Here's something rather strange that I found about reading PDF files. In many instances, I can get the PDF to read if I use Open With and select Safari. What's strange is that many times when on a web page where a pdf file is brought up, it will not read the file. But when I open the file from my local machine, it usually works. Just interact and read. Remember that this isn't a way to use table of contents or the like, just reading a pile of text. But after you interact, you can use VO Shift PageDown or PageUp to read in paragraph units. HTH.
> On Dec 3, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Faisal ali <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andrew, > I’ve been having issues with it as well and I’m running a late 2013 mac book > pro with 16 gigs of ram. > I guess my main issue is when you find yourself in a page with a picture on > it. Being able to navigate away from it was problematic for me. If you were > able to find out how to do this Tim, I’d love to know. there have also been > pdf files that upon interacting, it just said pdf content are and nothing more >> On Dec 3, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Tim, >> >> It’s very curious that you have had no issues with Preview since upgrading >> to yosemite. For me, the problems started exactly after I had upgraded to >> the latest OS. I wonder whether you think that this may have something to >> do with the age of the mac I have. My macbook air is late 2010 and has only >> 4GB RAM. However this was never a problem under Maverick. The other >> strange thing is that quite often, if I call up contextual menu on a pdf >> file and choose open with, instead of the usual list of apps that I might >> choose to open the said pdf file with, I get just one result, i.e. fetching. >> I have no idea what fetching is. There’s nothing else in the list. This >> is most odd. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Andrew >>> On 3 Dec 2014, at 18:28, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Faisal, >>> >>> Admittedly, the pdf’s I frequently access are not as large as you’ve >>> mentioned, although, just for investigative purposes, I opened a pdf I used >>> to access on Open Directory Administration within OS X Servers. This pdf >>> is 295 pages long with many or most of the elements you mentioned in the >>> academic articles you are required to read. Upon opening it, VO announced >>> that the document was 295 pages long and landed me on the pdf Content area. >>> I interacted twice and began reading with no issues. Of course, I didn’t >>> take the time to read all 295 pages but whether I went line by line or VO-a >>> to start reading from where I was, VO read the pdf just fine. I realize >>> that there are issues within Preview and it’s handling of certain tables >>> and such within the document, but the headings, sub-headings and other >>> textual content was read normally. Images and/or figure 2, for example, >>> were not read for obvious reasons. I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t >>> believe that the size of the file is the issue. I’m not sure what the >>> issue is, nor am I trying to say that there’s no problems at all with >>> Preview, but, I appear to be able to use Preview just fine with most pdfs. >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 09:27, Faisal ali <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Respectfully, I don’t know how complex the pdf files are that you are >>>> working with Tim. My average article has 140 pages, with several headings >>>> and sub headings not to mentions captions, end notes, foot notes and >>>> complicated formatting which is typical of academic journals. A lot of >>>> these also have several pictures in them so they are pretty complex. I >>>> would imagine if its a pdf file with, say 20 or even 40 pages with no >>>> fancy formatting or pictures, there would be no problems. >>>>> On Dec 3, 2014, at 5:36 AM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I’ll try this when I am able, as it would be nice to have a workaround. >>>>> Otherwise, Tim, I will send you one of the files I used to read with no >>>>> problems. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to [email protected]. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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