Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-24 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Tim, Yes it would be nice to make this 395 page Avid Audio plugin guide in to separate pdfs and having each chapter be its own independent Book so to speak. This way when I need to study the parameters for the reverb plugin for instance all searches only bring up hits for the reverb plugin

Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-24 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, My understanding is that simply extracting the text is not an option as the other parts of the pdf need to remain intact. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jan 24, 2017, at 08:11, Dan D. wrote: Why not convert it to text. Any editing would be eassy and audio output with

Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-24 Thread Dan D.
Why not convert it to text. Any editing would be eassy and audio output with the say command a breeze. With the pdf , cmd + a to choose all and cmd + c to copy will put the text into the clipboard from which it can be pasted into a text file. Chopping it into chapters and annotation should b

Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-23 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Nektarios, Yes I want to maintain the pdf format so book marks stay with each audio plugin from the avid manual. Converting in to text from my past experience makes a big mess of things! LOL Thanks Chuck On Jan 23, 2017, at 10:00 AM, Nektarios Mallas wrote: > Hello there! > If you are not i

Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-23 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi Tim, Thats sounds like a plan. :) I'll half to "look" in to getting that going. I'm trying to get this Avid plugin manual broken down in to each individual plugin chapters, like the pro compressor or the reverb plugin having its own individual pdf so all book marks when researching the softwa

Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, I just checked, and it is possible to use VO multiple selection techniques in the thumbnail collection. So, for example, if Chapter 2 began on Page 7, you could navigate to the thumbnail for Page 7 with VO, then hold down the shift key and arrow down to the bottom. VO doesn't appear to an

Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-23 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hello there! If you are not interested in keeping the pdf format in tact, you could export this to any text format such as RTF and then edit all you want. I don’ t understand why going through all this trubble unless you need all the visual stuff, and even in that case, exporting the file to so

Re: Editing PDFs?

2017-01-23 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, This could be accomplished in Preview. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it's more easily done from a sighted prospective. Once the pdf is open in Preview, go up to the View menu and choose ThumbNails. This will display an area with a thumbnail view of each page. If you VO-space on th

Editing PDFs?

2017-01-23 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi List, I have a big PDF Manual I want to edit. I'd like to edit the pdf in to its individual chapters. What APP is out there that I can edit a pdf? In other words lets say the pdf is 20 chapters in size I want to make it 20 separate pdfs? 1 pdf per chapter. Thanks for any solutions Chuck CH

Editing PDFs?

2017-01-21 Thread CHUCK REICHEL
Hi List, I have a big PDF Manual I want to edit. I'd like to edit the pdf in to its individual chapters. What APP is out there that I can edit a pdf? In other words lets say the pdf is 20 chapters in size I want to make it 20 separate pdfs? 1 pdf per chapter. Thanks for any solutions Chuck CH