An important point to remember about Adobe, or PDF, documents is that they aren't all the same, and the way to handle each kind is different. Sometimes, as Barbara Ann said, there's a convert to text option in the file menu. Sometimes the file menu gives you an opportunity to copy to the clipboard, from which you can copy the resulting text into a word processor. Some PDF files simply can't be read by JAWS.
The most recent version of Acrobat Reader, which is 8, has made PDF files much easier to access. I find it converts to a screenreader file much more quickly than before. After that process, JAWS either will or won't read it. If it won't, chances are the file is graphical, and so it will be necessary to resort to other methods, like the ever useful sighted assistant.
----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Black" <underconstruction1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Honestly, this is one of those things I always hate to ask about. Adobe. I always have trouble using it. never seem to understand how it works, or why ever time I open adobe to read a document, it takes forever to get the doc on the screen. plus, to read through a full doc, if say 20 pages?
are there instructions anywhere for this? thanks, Julian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara" <barbaraanne1@xxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 9:59 AM Subject: RE: Adobe Look under the File menu for a Save To Text option. Always, Barbara Anne -----Original Message-----From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Renette Bloem
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:53 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Adobe I experienced this problem too.Somehow I then managed to save the document in "my documents" and then convert it into a .txt document which Jaws reads easily.
Renette -----Original Message-----From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Alexander
Sent: 19 January 2008 18:53 To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: AdobeMy problem is I cannot get JAWS 9 to read PDF files. I've had a sighted user view my screen & they say the text is on the screen but all my computer speaks to me is Spaces & occasionally a numeric #. Is there some setting in JAWS or Adobe I need to set or change?
Thanks, by the way I use Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Reader.
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