[nabs-l] books in pdf

[Nicole B. Torcolini at Home]

If it is an accessible PDF, yes. Press JAWS key, control, f and then type in 
your search term. However, as I believe I said before, you may be better off 
just saving it as a text document and then a word document. Most PDF's that 
JAWS can read can be saved as text as long as they have not been protected. 
JAWS can be very slow when working with PDF's, and you usually have to have 
it reprocess it every time that you open the file. Finally, I do not know if 
there is a way to mark your place in a PDF file using JAWS, but you can do 
this in a Microsoft Word document with the latest version of JAWS.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] books in pdf


>I got mine in pdf too, unfortunately; can jaws search in a pdf file?
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Loren Wakefield
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 10:43 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: [nabs-l] books in pdf
>
> I recently received most of my textbooks in pdf.  Can someone tell me a 
> few tips on moving around in a pdf-type document?  How does one find 
> particular pages, sections, etc?  Can you have the document open where you 
> left off? Is there a more efficient way to go from page to page than 
> control-page down and hitting page up to go to the top of the page?  Some 
> basic tips would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> Loren
>
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