Hi Will and all, Does MS Reader permit you to print pages from books? If so, has anyone tried this with the virtual printer facilities of K1000 or OpenBook? Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications! Technology consultant/instructor, network/systems administrator! A+, CCNA, Network+! Check out high quality telecommunications services at http://ld.net/?nu7i All the best to coalition forces carrying out Operation Iraqi Freedom! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 9:03 AM Subject: [guispeak] Re: Microsoft ebook reader and the *.lit format. > Hi; > > I wouldn't like to say at the moment. The legality of this is unsure. In > the U.S. legislation exists that states it's legal to convert ebooks to > another format if they are inaccessible, but the big question is, by > providing a TTS plug-in for Reader, is the format considered accessible? > I > know in the UK, you can use OCR to store only a part of a book on your > computer, and this prohibits distribution or alteration of the content. > Outside of the UK and US I don't know anything about the legality of this > sort of situation, and I wouldn't like to offer advice that may mean you > break the law and are subsequently open to prosicution. > > I'm currently discussing the point with some folk from MS UK, who I > suspect, > being the format vendor, are in a position to make a judgement on the > legality. I'll post more when I hear something from MS. > > Thanks, > > Will > Microsoft MVP (Visual Studio/VC++) > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nektarios Mallas" <nmallas@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:47 PM > Subject: [guispeak] Re: Microsoft ebook reader and the *.lit format. > > >> Thanks for this. >> Do you know if there is any other way to extract the text from the *.lit >> file and read it in other standard programs? >> >> Nektarios. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >> Of Will Pearson >> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 3:55 PM >> To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [guispeak] Re: Microsoft ebook reader and the *.lit format. >> >> >> Hi; >> >> Whilst MS Reader isn't supported by any of the screen readers, there is >> a plug in. Microsoft have provided a text to speech plug in for Reader >> that will read aloud the document. It's based on MS SAPI, and uses the >> standard SAPI synth that ships with Windows. You can find a download >> for this from the Reader downloads page. >> >> Will >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Nektarios Mallas" <nmallas@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 6:39 AM >> Subject: [guispeak] Microsoft ebook reader and the *.lit format. >> >> >> > Hello list. >> > Is Microsoft ebook reader accessible by screen readers? Is there any >> > other way to access a *.lit file and extract the text from it so you >> > can read it with standard applications such as wordpad? 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