Re: [orca-list] pdf

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Yes, I tried Acroreader.  I can only read one line at a time.  You got
better performance?  This is exciting news!

Alex M


-----Original Message-----
From: mattias [mailto:mjonsson1986 gmail com] 
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 7:56 AM
To: Alex Midence
Cc: orca-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [orca-list] pdf

alex
so you have tryed acroreader?
seems you dont have
i tryed litle after i writed the question o yes it worked

On 2013-01-07 14:51, Alex Midence wrote:
> NO, it's not.  Speech access to pdf documents in Linux is absolutely 
> execrable.  You can't access this standard cross-platform document  
> format unless you convert them to html or plain text.  Navigating them 
> as received using Evince or Acroread or even Xpdf is not possible with 
> Orca or Speakup or anything really in Linux at this time.  Someone is 
> allegedly working on Evince and has been working on it for the last 
> few years but nothing noticeable has been done there recently.  I 
> understand the low vision experience is much better.  If you want to 
> read pdf's with something other than Windows, use Apple.  These days, 
> most PDF reading I do is done on my iPhone.  It does a better job than
even Windows.
> Regards,
> Alex M
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of mattias
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 6:28 AM
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> Subject: [orca-list] pdf
>
> are it possible to reed pdf documents with orca?
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