Re: Converting PDF Document Revisited

Gerald,

Man, that is really awesome. Amazing how something so insignificant can be so 
treacherous. 

Thanks much for helping me once again marvel at how programmers can totally 
mess things up for us without even trying hard.

The solution is buried so deep I would never have thought to consider a color 
vs. B&W setting being the root cause.

Dave
Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio Recording 
and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gerald Levy 
  To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 13:03
  Subject: Re: Converting PDF Document Revisited



  Dave,

  I did a little research, and fixed the problem without having to uninstall OB 
7.  The following explains the unknown file type error and how to resolve it:


  Using the Freedom Import Printer in OpenBook 7.0 results in Unknown File Type 
error message. 

  Problem:

  If WYNN 5.0 or OpenBook 8.0 is installed after OpenBook 7.0, OpenBook 7.0 
will not be able to use the Freedom Import Printer. This is because WYNN and 
OpenBook
  8.0 set the Freedom Import Printer to color, while OpenBook 7.0 requires that 
it be black and white. The workaround for OpenBook is to set the printer
  to black and white for OpenBook 7.0. You can set the Freedom Import Printer 
back to color when using OpenBook 8.0 and WYNN, though printing will work with
  OpenBook and WYNN in both color as well as black and white. 

  Solution:

  If you have OpenBook 8.0 and wish to change the Freedom Import Printer 
setting to black and white for use with OpenBook 7.0, do the following: 

  list of 9 items
  1. Navigate to the Control Panel, select Printers, and then highlight the 
Freedom Import Printer. 
  2. Press the Application Key on your keyboard. 
  3. Select Properties. 
  4. Select the Additional tab, and then choose the Additional Properties 
button. 
  5. Select the TIFF tab. 
  6. Modify the Bits per Pixel combo box setting as desired to either 1 bit - 
Black and White or 24 bit - True Color. 
  7. Press OK to apply the changes and exit the Printing Defaults dialog box. 
  8. Press OK to apply the changes and exit the Freedom Import Printer 
Properties dialog box. 
  9. Resume printing to the Freedom Import Printer. 
  list end


  Gerald 


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Farfar Carlson 
    To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 2:00 PM
    Subject: Re: Converting PDF Document Revisited


    Gerald,

    That's too bad. Maybe if you reinstall OB 7 you'll get that functionality 
back again? Frankly I was not impressed with OB9. Write me off-list if you'd 
like to hear my non-JAWS rant on OB9.

    dgcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

    Dave
    Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio 
Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Gerald Levy 
      To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:31
      Subject: Re: Converting PDF Document Revisited



      Yes, indeed, I got this dialog to choose which version of Open Book to 
use to open the PDF file.  I ttried both OB 7 and OB 9.  With OB 7, I got the 
unknown file type error, and with OB 9, I got a message that the trial period 
had expired and image and OCR capabilities were dnot available.  I should point 
out that the Freedom Import Printer function worked fine before I installed OB 
9 demo, so it is possible that something in the installation screwed up the 
Freedom Import Printer function in OB 7.  Someone else on another list reported 
having the same problem after installing OB 9 demo. 

      Gerald 


        ----- Original Message ----- 
        From: Farfar Carlson 
        To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
        Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 1:10 PM
        Subject: Re: Converting PDF Document Revisited


        Gerald,

        I have both OB 8 and OB 9 installed. When I invoke the Freedom Import 
Printer I'm presented with a little dialog that asks me which version of OB I 
want to use for the recognition. Did you not get this dialog?

        Note that the dialog has a nasty habit of not coming into focus, and 
likes to hide behind any other window on the screen, so you may have to Alt-Tab 
several times before you find it.

        I've found that both OB 8 and OB 9 will work correctly with the Freedom 
Import Printer and "blank" PDF files.

        Another idea is for you to save the "blank" PDF document, but save it 
in an older version of PDF, and then try just opening the document inside 
Openbook 9. It will directly load and convert the file without ever using the 
FIP.

        Dave
        Composed on a Dell Latitude 630 in the general vicinity of my Audio 
Recording and Mixing Studios, San Francisco Bay Area.
          ----- Original Message ----- 
          From: Gerald Levy 
          To: JFW list 
          Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 09:57
          Subject: Converting PDF Document Revisited



          Here we go again.    I received an email attachment that contained a 
PDF file, but when I tried to open it using Adobe Reader X, I got the dreaded 
empty document message, which means that Adobe Reader was unable to convert it 
to text.  So I selected Freedom Import Printer from the Print menu to scan the 
document with Open Book.  I have both Open Book 7.0.2 and the demo version of 
Open Book 9 installed on my computer.  But when I selected OB 7.0.2 to scan the 
document, I got an "unknown file type" error message when OB 7 attempted to 
open the file.  Is there any easy way to fix this problem without removing both 
OB 7 and OB 9 and reinstalling OB 7?  If not, is there any other way to convert 
this document into a text format that is readable by JAWS?  Someone mentioned 
something called Image Writer, but I can't find it on my computer, so I assume 
that it is either not available or not enabled.   I am running JAWS 9 with XP 
Pro.  Thanks for any help.

          Gerald

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