Re: [orca-list] Reading PDF files with Orca

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With Evince, you have to first press f7 for carrot navigation.

Then you will get content.

Krishnakant.

On 07/04/22 16:27, Christian Schoepplein via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Crome or Firefox can display PDFs, yes, but the format is totaly
> disrupted, at least in my case and on my system (Debian Bullseye with
> backports enabled). That is no solution I can work at my job, also
> converting PDFs to text is no serious solution :-(.
>
>
> I've also installed evince and tried to read a very simple PDF, also
> no success, no content is shown :-(. What else do I have todo when
> opening a PDF with evince to get the content displayed?
>
>
> PDF is one of the very less show stoppers for using Linux only. I do
> not need my Windows VM very ofthen, but reading PDFs is one of those
> very rare reasons, unfortunatly :-(.
>
>
> Cheers and thanks,
>
>
>   Schoepp
>
>
> Am 07.04.22 um 11:14 schrieb kk's Programming Hub via orca-list:
> > Chrome or Chromium can do that.
> >
> > You can also use evince which is also good.
> >
> >
> > On 07/04/22 14:01, Ali Savas via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > is there a way to read a PDF file on Linux with Orca without
> > > destroying the formatting, similar to Windows? Browsers such as
> > > Firefox can display PDF files, but the formatting is distorted for
> > > screen readers.
> > >
> > > Is Acrobat Reader on Linux accessible for Orca? Krishnakant.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for your answers.
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Ali
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