[Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2

[Susan Tabor]

Oh, so that's what that Document Empty means!

I'll have to check to see what version I have at work. The one I have at
home is more recent because I can install it myself and I don't have to wait
on I.T. to do it. We're not allowed to do this ourselves at work. Thanks for
the info, Gary! And I didn't know you could run things off the computer
screen through Open Book! How is that done, if I may ask?
Cheers,
Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: promotion-technology-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:promotion-technology-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Gary Wunder
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:36 AM
To: Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of Technology
Subject: Re: [Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2

Hi Susan. What version of Adobe are you using? What screen reader are you 
using? It may be that this particular PDF you are trying to read contains 
only a print image -- a picture of the text rather than typewritten text 
which can be read from a buffer by your screen reading software. If this is 
the case, you will need some kind of optical character recognition program 
such as the Kurzweil 1000 or Freedom Scientific's OpenBook in order to look 
at those images and convert them to letters that you can read.

If, in my case, using the most current version of Adobe Acrobat reader and 
JAWS for Windows, when I get a document which only contains images, I get a 
message which says "alert: document empty." This is a clue that I need to 
run the PDF file through the Kurzweil 1000.

Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Tabor" <souljourner at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of Technology'"

<promotion-technology at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 11:03 PM
Subject: [Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2


> Hi, listers!
>
>
>
> One of the newspapers I get at work and have to print comes in to PDF 
> files
> which are not embedded attachments. They are regular PDF's with about 5mb 
> in
> them, and I can usually open that size of PDF OK. But these will look on 
> the
> screen to those who read print like they're open but the speech on the
> computer will be dead and some of the other functionality is gone as well.
> This is really irritating! Can someone explain to me what is happening and
> tell me if there's anything I can do so that the people emailing the paper
> won't have to change how they do it just for me, please? Thanks!--Susan
>
>
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