Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-20 Thread Chuck Reichel
Hi Ann, I did everything you suggested but no file was created. I dug down to the last level you said to look in and nothing? What happens is that a dialogue comes up that says Automator runner has no windows I had my wife search the whole mac pro and no file was created on that day? I even

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Trahern, There isn't much you can do directly from a PDF document, But if you can select text and copy it into a TextEdit document, you can use the command Add to iTunes as a spoken track. You need to make sure that this service is available by selecting text in a TextEdit document,

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi: I have a related question. I have a book someone turned from a PDF into a text edit. It is an excellent book. But, all the apostrophes, quotation marks, and some other weird markings make it kind rough reading. I went through actually word by word, I'm embarrassed to say, and fixed most

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Carolyn, This sounds distinctly like a character set conversion problem. Unfortunately, i'm unfamiliar with the specifics of character sets on the Mac and the process the person used to convert your book. The most I can do is recommend that they run the conversion again, paying attention

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Zack: Thanks. At least you didn't holler at me to just go buy the book and deal with it.:) Actually, probably that's what I'll do. Thanks Carolyn H On Jan 19, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Carolyn, This sounds distinctly like a character set conversion problem.

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Carolyn, The conversion was almost certainly done using a PC, but you can fix the problem fairly easily by using the Replace All function of the Find command. Work out what each wrong character should be, then select the first occurrence of that character, press Cmd-F, paste it into the

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Chuck Reichel
Hi Ann, Where does the audio end up in Itunes? I did it and I end up in a window that says;; Automaker runner has no windows? What am I doing wrong? Thanks On Jan 19, 2011, at 5:46 AM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Trahern, There isn't much you can do directly from a PDF document, But if you

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread trahern culver
would the program called ghost reader do the trick?? kind regards trahern. -- 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

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Carolyn Haas
Hi Anne: Thanks. I'm ging to try this for the sake of learning it. But, I did go buy the book.:) Still good to know. Carolyn HOn Jan 19, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: Hello Carolyn, The conversion was almost certainly done using a PC, but you can fix the problem fairly easily

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Another point. How do you chage the voice and speed that results? Got the convertion to work but caint work out how to change the voice. According to what I've read, you do it in the system prefs window under the Text to speech tab under the speech prefs window. Thing is, that doesn't

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Chuck Reichel
Hi, it said it was working but where did the files go. I had a selection in textedit went to services and did all the steps but no files in itunes ! any help? Chuck On Jan 19, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: Another point. How do you chage the voice and speed that results? Got the

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Trahern, GhostReader will certainly do the trick. I didn't suggest it at first because I wanted to suggest a cost-free solution. For myself, I really like GhostReader and it's easy to select the voice or voices you want it to use. Cheers, Anne On 20 Jan 2011, at 02:47, trahern culver

Re: how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-19 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Chuck, You can find the item in iTunes by going to the Sources table, selecting Recently Added and looking in the table for Text to Speech. The file itself will be in/Users/username/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Unknown Artist/Unknown Album/Text to Speech.m4a Once you've found it in iTunes,

how to turn pdf instruction manuals in to audio books?

2011-01-18 Thread trahern culver
hey all i have sevral pdf instruction manuals that i'd like to turn in to audio books with sections and chapters that i can navagate like a normal audio book that a person would buy in itunes how can i make this happen? is there any software i can use? your hhelp with this question would be most