Re: [orca-list] Trouble accessing Acrobat in Ubuntu 9.04 x64

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

Actually, OO opens PDFs with impress, even if you open them in writer  
it is a presentation view which does not read well with Orca.


On Jul 13, 2009, at 13:11, Doug Smith wrote:

> Try this: Open the file with your word processor, openoffice.org word
> processor from the applications menu under the office settings and see
> if OO can read it.  I don't have any pdf documents right now to try  
> this
> with, but it's only a suggestion since you can save documents in pdf
> format with that program.
>
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
>
> Doug Smith
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 16:20 -0400, Bill Cox wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to improve my listening skills, so I thought I'd use Orca
> > to listen to a few books.  I have some books in PDF format, but
> > Acrobat is not accessible to Orca.  I pulled up Accerciser, and
> > Acrobat isn't even listed as an application.  Is this because I'm
> > running 64-bit Ubuntu, and Acrobat is 32?  Is there a more accessible
> > PDF reader?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bill
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