[gui-talk] Taking hard returns out of document
Sherri
flmom2006 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 18:56:08 UTC 2009
Well, I tried switching the order and it reads fine in PDF, but still saves
one word at a time when converted to a text document. Any other suggestions?
At least I am able to read the PDF better now. Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at loc.gov>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Taking hard returns out of document
> If you are editing in MS Word, you could search for ^p and replace with a
> space. Unfortunately, Word is going to wrap the resulting line in
> arbitrary places.
>
> Before you do this, select the left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order
> and see what you get, both in the JAWS buffer and if you have Adobe Reader
> save to a text file. Sometimes this second reading order works much
> better than the first does.
>
>
> At 11:21 AM 10/28/2009, you wrote:
>>I just received a large PDF document, which for my purposes was more
>>easily saved as a text file. However, each word seems to be on a separate
>>line. It appears that way in the PDF version as well. What is the symbol
>>or character for the hard return and how do I go about removing them?
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Sherri Brun
>>flmom2006 at gmail.com
>>There is a Braille literacy crisis in America.
>>You can be part of the solution.
>>
>>https://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&identifier=4000
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer, Engineering Section
> National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
> Library of Congress (202) 707-0535 <http://www.loc.gov/nls>
> HOME: <http://lras.home.sprynet.com>
> The opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent
> those of NLS.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gui-talk mailing list
> gui-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/gui-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> gui-talk:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/gui-talk_nfbnet.org/flmom2006%40gmail.com
More information about the GUI-Talk
mailing list