Re: [orca-list] PDF-files and Orca

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

You're assuming we use Microsoft Windows. Some of us don't, and haven't
in years. In fact, there are those among us who have never used Windows.

More than the fact that this discussion is taking place on the Orca
list, the plain fact is that quite a few of us just don't bother with
Windows. So, if you're assuming we all use it and only dip our toes into
Orca and Linux, please reconsider.

Janina

Milton writes:
> Hi Christian,
>
> You can also try:
> http://www.accessiblepdf.com
> It is open source and also work fine and simple under Windows.
> Milton
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jason White" <jason jasonjgw net>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 8:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] PDF-files and Orca
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:04:07PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the referral; it was interesting reading.  It's a bit dated
> > but a quick intro to the Open Office.org product.  I've had little
> > practice with it so far but looked promising from what I've seen so
> > far.  I played with a MS Word originated document as well as an excel
> > spreadsheet and they both came and read quite snappily.  It sounds
> > like it's a lot of work to get an HTML out of OOo and get it all
> > cleaned up but I recall that MS Word does the same thing; they try and
> > include so much mark-up - even the stuff that is unnecessary given
> > what we want or need in an HTML document.
>
> I just write my documents in LaTeX and use tex4ht to produce HTML (or XHTML)
> versions. Using pdflatex I can create what I am reliably informed are
> beautifully typeset PDF files that can be displayed on screen or printed. 
> When
> posting to my Web site, I simply upload both the HTML and the PDF files, 
> which
> are linked from an HTML page, so that readers can choose the format which 
> they
> prefer.
>
> There are also various tools that can produce slides from LaTeX or XHTML
> sources. When next I need to give a presentation with slides, perhaps 
> Firefox
> 3 with Orca and a series of HTML files, one per slide, would be the most
> convenient solution, using a braille display to navigate through the slides
> during the presentation.
>
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