[JAWSLite] Re: pdf on the net

folks, if you don't have a grand OCIR app like open book, and your dealing 
with single or few pages, there is a method for getting it read that 
utilizes an application that is on my grab bag site:
http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
called print screen, and a included component of the Microsoft office suite.

HTH,
inthane
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lennie Rinaldi" <merlin739@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:19 AM
Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: pdf on the net


> Wayne,
>
> I ran into this problem too using version 8 of Adobe Reader.
>
> I think that the PDF document is an image and the only way to read it
> is to do what you did. I often print an image document and scan it to
> read the text.
>
> Just thought that you might like to know.
>
> Lennie
>
> At 12:42 PM 1/14/2009, you wrote:
>>Thanks for trying.  I did download the Accessible version of Adobe Reader 
>>9,
>>but the two attachments that were unreadable before the download are still
>>unreadable afterward.  I print them, scan them in Open Book and there they
>>ar.
>>
>>Wayne
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jawslite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>On Behalf Of G.W. Cox
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 7:51 PM
>>To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [JAWSLite] Re: pdf on the net
>>
>>Go to your help menu on version 8 and upgrade to version 9. Somewhere 
>>along
>>the line, there will be a dialogue for accessibility settings.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "wayne b smith" <waynesoundsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 6:00 PM
>>Subject: [JAWSLite] pdf on the net
>>
>>
>> > Hello
>> >
>> >
>> > I was using Adobe Reader 7 and reading pdf files that came as e-mail
>> > attachments with no problem.  Then, I downloaded Adobe Reader 8 and the
>> > trouble began.  Most of the files that come as attachments are 
>> > unreadable,
>> > often saying Unknown Zone.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > When I save one of these attachments to My Documents and then open it
>> > reads
>> > just fine.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Recently, a ministry in Florida sent me a pdf flier that I could not 
>> > read.
>> > I called them and a woman said that she checked it and it was fine. 
>> > She
>> > suggested that I print it.  I did, and when I scanned the page it was 
>> > all
>> > there.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Do these issues ring any bells with any of you?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Wayne
>> >
>> >
>> >
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