Reading PDFs

2012-11-08 Thread Fred Smith
far, the best tool I've found for reading PDFs is VisioVoice, but I'd really like to use Preview if possible. I'm using a Macbook Air, with Lion (10.7.5). Thanks, Fred Smith --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac

Re: Reading PDFs

2012-11-09 Thread Fred Smith
it's just the way I'm used to things, but any ideas would be very welcome indeed! Christopher Hallsworth On 09/11/2012 07:33, Fred Smith wrote: Does anyone have an answer for the problem I encounter when trying to read PDF files with Preview? As VoiceOver reads the PDF, it cuts off

Re: Mac App Store - PDF to Text

2012-11-09 Thread Fred Smith
Thanks, I'll have a look at that. What's the advantage of using a program like this, compared to opening a PDF -- in Preview, for example -- selecting all and then pasting into a word processing program such as TextEdit? Fred On 10/11/2012, at 12:52 AM, Danny Noonan wrote: Here's a direct

Re: Why VoiceOver reads some PDFs strangely was Re: Skim Accessibility

2012-11-13 Thread Fred Smith
I'm finding that Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 works quite well with PDFs . With VoiceOver, it will read continuously and without cutting off letters as Preview does (and Skim and Softcon, in my experience). ADE allows you to pause/restart, move up and down a page at a time, adjust the reading

Google Docs

2013-01-22 Thread Fred Smith
I'm interested in using Google Docs with Voiceover -- mainly because it might be a good way for several people to collaborate on editing a document. Can anyone tell me: How compatible with Voiceover is Google Docs? Thanks, Fred Smith --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply

Re: Google Docs

2013-01-23 Thread Fred Smith
intend to try any heavy lifting in Google Docs. That combo works much better than Safari VO when it comes to google docs. HTH, Bryan On Jan 22, 2013, at 3:50 AM, Fred Smith snuc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in using Google Docs with Voiceover -- mainly because it might

Editing and sharing documents

2013-01-25 Thread Fred Smith
of the formatting is missing (even basic stuff like bold or italic). If I could use Word, all would be well, but it isn't VO-accessible. Can anyone suggest a word processor which is both VO-accessible and more compatible with Word? Open Office, perhaps? Thanks, Fred Smith --- Mac Access At Mac

Mail problems

2013-03-28 Thread fred smith
Using Mail on my MacBook Air, I'm suddenly encountering two problems: 1) I can no longer jump use the Tab key to jump between the mailboxes and the messages table. Now, Tab just does nothing. There is a workaround, using VO-J, but Tab is more convenient. I've checked all the setting I can find

Re: Mail problems

2013-03-28 Thread fred smith
? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 28, 2013, at 5:29 AM, fred smith snuc...@gmail.com wrote: Using Mail on my MacBook Air, I'm suddenly encountering two problems: 1) I can no longer jump use the Tab key to jump between the mailboxes and the messages table. Now, Tab just does nothing

Re: Mail problems

2013-03-28 Thread fred smith
the Mail backed up, why not rebuild the database to see if it works? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 28, 2013, at 8:11 PM, fred smith snuc...@gmail.com wrote: The exact details depend on the application, but Tab can be very handy. For example, it can step you through a dialogue, such as the save

Re: Mail problems

2013-03-29 Thread fred smith
it comes out Sent from my iPhone On Mar 28, 2013, at 9:58 PM, fred smith snuc...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks -- I'll try that later and let you know how it tuns out. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Josh Gregory joshkar...@gmail.com wrote: Well thanks, :-) I was just asking in reference

Re: Mail problems

2013-03-29 Thread fred smith
. Cheers, Esther On 29 Mar 2013, at 04:09, Josh Gregory wrote: Very strange, the only other thing I can think of is if you might have a time machine backup of When it did work. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 29, 2013, at 5:15 AM, fred smith snuc...@gmail.com wrote: No luck -- I

Re: Tabbing to navigate in apps [was Re: Mail problems]

2013-03-30 Thread fred smith
, fred smith wrote: Using Mail on my MacBook Air, I'm suddenly encountering two problems: 1) I can no longer jump use the Tab key to jump between the mailboxes and the messages table. Now, Tab just does nothing. There is a workaround, using VO-J, but Tab is more convenient. I've checked

Safari 6.1 bug?

2013-11-02 Thread Fred Smith
I've just upgraded to Safari 6.1 and I wonder if anyone else has struck the same problem I'm encountering. Now, when I open a web page and ask for headings, Safari only announces one or two headings, even though I know there are more. For example, a Google search results page now announces

[Mac-access]: Mail with Yosemite

2014-11-29 Thread Fred Smith
I'm just setting up a new macbook air, running Yosemite, and I've struck a problem with mail. I prefer to use classic view, and on my old machine, running Mountain Lion, I use the jump command (VO j) as a quick way to jump between the mailboxes list and the messages table. But with the new

Re: [Mac-access]: Mail with Yosemite

2014-11-30 Thread Fred Smith
Alawami wrote: Try a permissions repair. On the finder make sure you are in list view. I normally write longer messages but it's pretty late here and I'm extremely tired. Hth and blessings. On Nov 29, 2014, at 11:46 PM, Fred Smith snuc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm just setting up a new macbook air

Re: [Mac-access]: Mail with Yosemite

2014-12-08 Thread Fred Smith
ways in mavericks. Don On Nov 30, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Fred Smith snuc...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks -- I tried repairing disk permissions, and restarting, but the VO-j jump comand still doesn't work. And yes, the finder is in list mode. Does anyone have any other ideas on how to make this very