[Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2

[Gary Wunder]

OpenBook has a facility which, if I remember my terminology correctly, they 
call a virtual printer. Essentially it gets installed such that when you 
open your print menu and arrow down through available printers, not only 
will you see the ones which are in your office for your use, but she should 
see something like "OpenBook virtual printer." Essentially what this lets 
you do is use the program which is capable of reading whatever kind of 
document you want to read, use the print facility of that program, and 
instead of sending it to paper or you would then scan it, you send it to a 
formatted disk file which open book reads as though it were a scanned 
document. Let me know if you need more explanation about this.

Warmly,

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: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Promotion-technology] PDF's, Round 2


> 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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