Re: Reading Ebooks with Adobe

Okay, I understand. My head is spinning, but with amusement. Where does the 
expression "to speak under correction" come from? I mean, where's it used? I 
take it what's meant is something akin to "perhaps I'm wrong," or " if 
someone knows better, please speak up." Yes? Is it generally British 
English, or is it peculiar to South Africa? The locution it reminds me of in 
American English is one that's formal and not used much in ordinary 
conversation, where you might qualify a statement by saying "I say this 
under advisement," and such things, but they don't have the same functional 
meaning. They don't indicate unsureness, but rather the opposite. A 
positive. "To say something under advisement is to say something you've been 
authoritatively instructed to say. For example. So I find this refreshing 
and novel, and a nice bit to learn of. Thanks.

I do wonder what you mean about having trouble opening .pdf files with text 
editors. That confused me to hear. The way I have it set up is, I think, the 
most usual: I have the program Adobe Reader, or Adobe Acrobat, not sure 
which version it is I'm running, and that is what is almost universally used 
by most people to open a ..pdf file and read it. Of course, Adobe has worked 
with the Freedom Scientific people and designed its recent versions to 
support Jaws, so that a Jaws user can do this just as a sighted person can, 
or at least nearly as well.

For those who are familiar with blind OCR applications like Open Book, I 
know there's a way to use OB to import a .pdf file and use the Freedom 
Printer ((that name makes me laugh every time I read it, because it reminds 
me of the Bush administration throwing a fit over French disagreement over 
its foreign policy and asking Americans to rename French fried potatoes 
"freedom fries."

Anyway, when I click on a p.df file, Adobe launches and opens it, and Jaws 
reads the document. I don't understand what you mean by brining text editors 
into the conversation about that. Please explain.
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From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <NOosthuizen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 12:58 AM
Subject: RE: Reading Ebooks with Adobe



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Oops, sorry, I meant text pal.

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: 03 April 2007 09:14 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reading Ebooks with Adobe

Nicole,

Hello. Look, I'm familiar with Pay Pal, and I'm signed up with Pay Pal.
I
have no idea what any of this was about. I simply asked someone what
that
text editor was, and he told me. But for some reason, someone's telling
me
to sign up with Pay Pal and buy something I haven't even researched,
yet? Am
I misunderstanding someone?
From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <NOosthuizen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:36 PM
Subject: RE: Reading Ebooks with Adobe



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HI yardbird
I suggested pay pal. The link you clicked on will download pay pal.
Unlike other text editors, you can open pdf documents with pay pal. It
will convert the pdf file to text.  Its very handy   for me to use pay
pal as I can never open a pdf document with jaws. Each time I open a pdf
document, jaws freezes so much that  I have to reboot.
If I understand the pay pal manual correctly, you can even write
programs in pay pal but I speak under correction.

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Yardbird
Sent: 02 April 2007 07:31 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Reading Ebooks with Adobe

jerry,
Curious to see what you were pointing me to, I clicked on the link you
provided below, only to be met by a Windows dialogue asking my
permission to
download something or other, even as I heard the status line giving a
play-by-play of a Web page loading. I was so surprised I just hit Escape
and
got out of there, which seemed to cancel whatever was going on, because
my
browser isn't even launched, now, though it seemed to begin launching
when I
clicked on the link.

Weird. Couldn't you just tell me in a few words what this text editor
stuff
is about? When you have a couple of minutes? If not, fine, but my
question
was conversational, not indication that I wanted to embark on research
of
some kind. Thanks.--
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