[macvoiceover] Re: Pages and VoiceOver

  • From: James Dean <professordean@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:07:32 -0500

I did not have to pen a podbeam account to get these. I was able to play both 
of them in Safari by clicking a few different download links.

James A. Dean


On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Michael Busboom wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Since several of us seem to be having problems getting the two podcasts on 
> Pages that someone did, I am wondering if our fearless leader would consider 
> getting the author's permission to put them up on www.icanworkthisthing.com.
> 
> Just a thought from someone who does not want to open yet another account, 
> only to download two podcasts.
> 
> My best to all,
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 15,Jan,2011, at 12:12 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
> 
>> Pages works, but if all you need is basic editing, then use text edit, it 
>> comes with the mac, and can handle a wide variety of formats, including ms 
>> word, rtf, and others.  If you need something more powerful (I.E. footnotes 
>> and running headers) then take a look at nisus writer, several folks on the 
>> list use it, and say it works well. (I've not tried it, because it's not 
>> free, and text edit does what I need)If you want opensource, then try baen 
>> or simultron, both of which come with source, and (I'm fairly sure) work 
>> with vo.
>> I don't think either one can do footnotes, but I could be wrong on that.
>> Failing that, a quick search on sourceforge, or googlecode for osx text 
>> editor turns up all kinds of things, some of which do footnotes and running 
>> headers, and some that don't, so you can of course pick and choose which one 
>> you'd like to use.
>> I honestly don't see any reason to use a partially working program like 
>> pages when there's free or opensource stuff that works just as well or 
>> better out there, but I've always been one to hunt up shareware first before 
>> looking at commercial offerings anyhow, so to each their own.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
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