Hi Kirsten, The trick to preview for me is interacting with it like a web page. I am running Lion so don't know if that makes a difference or not. I use this as Pages and Text edit will only read one page at a time and then I have to press VO A to get the next page even though that command should read the whole document. Someone told me to set my text edit a certain way but that doesn't seem to make a difference. anyway Use the VO keys and the right arrow to move until you here HTML content and then interact with it.then you can use your VO commands like normal. If you use your VO keys and the left arrow you can go to the list of pages in the document and interact with it and choose which page you want. Just incase anyone wants to know.
HTH Becky On Apr 8, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: > Hi all, > A few weeks ago, someone asked what was the best way of reading PDFs. I gave > some vague response, and though I can't remember who asked, I know it comes > up quite often, so, below I list more specific steps. I hope they help > whoever wanted to know. > 1. Find your document in your folder system. > 2. Press VO-M and navigate to the File menu. > 3. Go down to the Open With menu. > 4. Arrow right and then down to Safari. > 5. Leave the document to open-this might take some time if it is large for > example-when it starts reading, arrow until you are in the window (rather > than in the other web functions such as add to reading list etc). > 6. Interact with the window with the VO-Down Arrow-Shift command. > 7. If you want to read line by line, try to get your reading setting to > 'navigation', otherwise when you use the down arrow, you will be reading via > character or word. > 8. Use the arrows to read up and down each line. > 9. Close or quit when you are finished. > N.B.: the default setting for PDFs is Preview, which I personally find hard > to access. > This has worked for me so far most often. > I think I said to use Google Chrome last time I emailed, but I think I should > really have said Safari, as Chrome seems not to open the document in the same > way-often saying 'empty HTML' which Safari does not. > Kind regards > Kirsten. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
