[nfbcs] PDF

[Steve Jacobson]

Tracy,

I didn't do an exhaustive examination, but I found that with the Acrobat reader, and using the "Infer Reading Order from 
Document" option that the schedule was put into tables.  Window-Eyes treats these tables just like tables on the web, 
so I assume that JFW does as well.  This lets one move up and down each column.  If you use Kurzweil, it is going to 
make its own decisions about formatting and won't take advantage of anything imbeded in the PDF document.  Having 
the same version of Adobe Acrobat and with the same settings is going to be necessary to get the same results at home 
and at work.  For this particular document, it looks to me as though Acrobat Reader and the infer reading order option is 
going to do a pretty good job.  I generally do not use the Infer Reading order because it is slower and doesn't get you 
that much when reading straight text, but when there is tabular information, it is often worth it.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 10:33:32 -0400 (EDT), Tracy Carcione wrote:

>My public radio station is chaning its schedule.  The new schedule is a
>PDF doc--a big hairy table.  I am having no luck figuring it out at all,
>and its symptomatic of problems I'm having with PDF.
>Anyone who wants a look can see the pdf by going to wnyc.org, selecting
>schedule, then selecting Download New Schedule.

>First, after I got the pdf dialog and hit Start, I got a blank page with a
>web address on top and 48.4% in the middle, but nothing else.  I saved
>that webpage as a pdf file (I didn't have to change anything in the Save
>As box) and opened it through Windows Explorer.  It opened it as a big
>table, but I couldn't figure out which column headers went with which
>columns.  I opened it with Kurzweil, and all the text was garbage
>:::::::::::::.... etc.

>I will try it again at work tomorrow, because for some reason PDF reads
>better there, even though I'm using the same version of Jaws, 7.0, and IE.
> Does anyone know why that might be so?
>Does anyone know how to figure out which header goes with which column in
>a PDF table?
>Thanks.
>Tracy



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