moderated Re: Reading pdfs with confidence
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Russell Solowoniuk
Hi all,
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I've had this beef with JAWS and reading PDF documents forever! In a long PDF, when you press CTRL plus PageDown to go to the next page, the focus ends up somewhere in the middle of the next page instead of at the top of the page, so I must first give the CTRL plus Home command to go to the top of the page before starting to read the page. I've written to FS about this issue several times, but they never seem to bother fixing it. NVDA, on the other hand, places focus at the top of the next page when pressing CTRL plus PageDown, so it is possible to do. I guess FS doesn't think it's important enough to worry about. Very frustrating! Thanks, Russell
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Bill White Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 4:01 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Reading pdfs with confidence Sometimes, you have to try something else instead of Infer reading order from document (recommended) This means choosing from one of the two remaining options, Left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order Use reading order in raw print stream Usually, if you choose one of the other two options, it renders the pdf better than Infer reading order from document Bill White billwhite92701@dslextreme.com -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 1:21 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Reading pdfs with confidence When I have tried this in the past many spaces between words were omitted causing run-on words. Haven't tried it in a few years. Tony -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Bill White Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 1:42 PM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: Reading pdfs with confidence Hi, Rahul. Instead of reading the pdf in Word, Press CONTROL A to select all, copy all the text into Notepad, and try reading it as text. Bill White billwhite92701@dslextreme.com -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Rahul Bajaj Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 11:39 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Reading pdfs with confidence Hi. I open PDFs in Adobe Reader. JAWS sometimes jumps around of its own accord in pdfs, especially when transitioning from one page to another. and has to be redirected. Even jaws 2020. While I am able to bring it back where I need to when it jumps, I remain quite worried. That I might miss some vital info or internalize it wrongly if I fail to notice the jump. Does anyone else face this? How do you get around it? Converting every pdf into word is not very viable.. and can muff up footnotes. Copy pasting it into word makes a 10 page pdf a 30 page word doc. And makes quick reading very hard. So what can one do? Rahul
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