I discovered this bug via a forum posting, and confirmed that manually installing libgnome-speech7 and configuring acroread worked. SO I thought maybe libgnome-speech7 had not been suggested when I installed the package. HOWEVER when I looked in Software Center just now, libgnome-speech7 IS suggested as an optional install (though I had not noticed it before). Presumably ticking the checkbox SHOULD also trigger the acroread.postinst configure script (but I haven't tested it on a clean install to be sure).
SO I would suggest one of us could test the installation on a new install and tick the libgnome-speech7 checkbox to be sure it works. If it does, one of us can edit https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AcrobatHowTo page (and other places, such as the package description) to say: "Adobe Reader can optionally read aloud from PDF files. The Read Out Loud feature requires libgnome-speech7, which is a suggested option when you install the Adobe Reader (acroread) package using Software Centre (or another package manager)." If it turns out it does NOT work from a clean install, then possibly the acroread package needs to be updated to make sure the acroread.postinst script gets called by the package manager at the appropriate time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/741203 Title: Read Out Loud does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acroread/+bug/741203/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
