Re: [orca-list] PDF viewers

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

On 09.03.2009 at 12:02:46 "James & Nash" <james austin1984 googlemail com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>  
> I have looked on the internet, and I was wondering if anyone has heard of or
> uses any open free PDF viewers that works well with orca please?
>  
There are several solutions, but non of them is really satisfying:
Acrobat with accessibility features:
It is hard to install, since it is no open source, and therefore not
offered via Debian or related repositories.
You can get it via Ubuntu, but I cannot remember how to do it: There's a
chapter in the Orca wiki that deals with that.
In the same wiki you find a howto to setup a small script provideed by
Francisco Javier Dorado Martinez. It converts a document loaded into
Evince in text and presents it in Gedit.
But you can use text based converting tools such as pdftotext or
pdftohtml, which come in a package named poppler-utils.
I use them and they do their purpose.
Hermann