Hi,
As Marie says, the key is interacting with the text in Preview. If
you can't read continuously after interacting, check your PDF Display
settings under the View menu on Preview's menu bar (VO-M to the menu
bar, press "V" to go to the View menu, arrow down, press "P" to go to
PDF Display, right arrow to the submenu, then arrow down to see which
display mode is checked. The default is "Single Page Continuous". If
"Single Page" is checked, VoiceOver will stop reading at the end of
each page. This setting can be useful if, for some reason your PDF
book starts reading each page in the middle due to a conversion or
format problem.
In Preview you can Command-Right arrow to move to the next page,
Command-Left arrow to move the previous page. Also, if your PDF
supports Table of Contents organization, and you have navigated and
interacted with the Outline View where the contents are listed and
selected a section (e.g., for one of the Take Control guides, after
downloading and opening the eBook in Preview, tab to "Outline View,
Table, no selection"; interact, and select a section, then stop
interacting and VO-Left arrow to the main document section of Preview,
you can then use Command-Up arrow to move to the start of the
previous chapter and Command-Down arrow to move the start of the next
chapter. These correspond to the places you would select by
navigating up and down in the Outline View. If the sidebar is not
showing "Outline" view, but is instead displaying "thumbnails" or
"search results" because you used Command-F to find a string in the
document, you can use item chooser menu to search for "Menu
Button" (e.g., VO-I, then type "b u t", press return, and arrow down
to the selection and either press return or VO-Space), then bring up
the contextual menu (VO-Shift-M) and arrow up to "Table of Contents".
VO-Up arrow to the Outline view, interact, and select a section from
the contents. This only works if the PDF document was constructed
with a viewable table of contents -- you won't find this menu option
in PDF files you simply create by printing with Command-P and saving
to PDF.
Olivia, I don't know whether the "new keyboards" you were asking about
are laptop type keyboards without the page up and page down keys, but
I'll paste in part of an old post describing how pressing the Fn key
in combination with the arrow keys can generate the Home, End, Page
Up, and Page Down keys of full keyboards.
Hello Carolyn, Phil, and Others On any MacBook, MacBook Pro, or
other laptops such as the earlier PowerBook and iBook series, the
Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys can be accessed by pressing
the Fn key in conjunction with the Arrow keys. The easy way to check
this for yourself is by turning on VoiceOver's keyboard help (VO-K),
then hold down the Fn key and press each of the arrow keys in
succession. You'll hear: Fn+Left Arrow "Home" Fn+Right Arrow "End" Fn
+Up Arrow "Page Up" Fn+Down Arrow "Page Down" and, if I can add a
couple of other keys on the right side of the laptop keyboard,
pressed together with the Fn key: Fn+Delete "Forward Delete" Fn
+Return "Enter" The consequences of this are that commands to go to
the beginning or end of a list or table, like VO-Home and VO-End, or
VO-Shift-Home and VO-Shift-End to move to the first or last word in
a list or table with scrolling, is that a laptop user, after
interacting, will use: VO+Fn+Left Arrow to move to the first visible
word in a list, table, or web page VO+Fn+Right Arrow to move to the
last visible word in a list, table, or web page In a table like the
Mail messages table or the Songs table of iTunes, where the list is
longer than the visible page, you will want to use scrolling to move
to the actual start or end of the list, and will also need to press
the Shift key with this combination: VO+Fn+Shift+Left Arrow to move
to the first word in a list or table with scrolling VO+Fn+Shift
+Right Arrow to move to the last word in a list or table with
scrolling after interacting with said list or table. Other
consequences of the Fn key usage are that when using TextEdit on a
Mac laptop, you can use: Fn+Down Arrow to move down a page in a
document Fn+Up Arrow to move up a page in a document Fn+Delete to
forward delete a character All these Fn+key combinations for laptops
are specific to Mac OS X, and do not depend on using VoiceOver. HTH
Cheers, Esther
On 11 May 2010, at 04:46, Teresa Cochran wrote:
See, I knew I was missing something. Yes, Marie, interacting with the
text works great. :)
Olivia, the only thing I could think of is to use the "go to page"
function, command-shift-g. No page functions on the new keyboards?
That's very odd.
Teresa
On May 11, 7:11 am, marie Howarth <[email protected]> wrote:
to use VO-A once moving away from the start of the document. Try
interacting with the text. That helps in other apps for me.
On 11 May 2010, at 15:02, Teresa Cochran wrote:
Hi, folk,
I'm not sure if I'm missing something fundamental here, but the
only way I can read a document in Preview is to press VO-A to
start, then when it reaches the end of the page, I press page-down
and then space when it says "next". When it reaches a subsequent
page, I can only move to the text again by using VO-right-arrow to
read. If I press VO-A again, it starts from the beginning of the
document. Can someone point me to how I can read a document from
start to finish, even if it is page-by-page?
Thanks,
Teresa
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