From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu ([18.7.21.83]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16jX3x-0001KL-00 for ; Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:58:25 -0500 Received: from grand-central-station.mit.edu (GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.82]) by pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA07410 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:58:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by grand-central-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA27173 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:58:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from rich (208-59-250-51.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com [208.59.250.51]) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id VAA13097 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:58:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002001c1c716$54b76e80$6401a8c0@cable.rcn.com> From: "Rich Caloggero" To: References: Subject: Re: PDF Explained Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 21:58:46 -0500 Organization: MIT ATIC Lab MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: "Rich Caloggero" List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Yes, and it is really slow and clumsy. The reader itself is a pain, and the "accessibility features" are just structure tags, which should be part of any good electronic document these days. I believe the real reaon for the existance of PDF is copyright protection. The PDF format does include digital rights management components and encryption software. Rich ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawes, Stephen" To: Sent: 08 March, 2002 4:41 PM Subject: RE: PDF Explained Rich, have you checked out what Adobe has to offer for accessibility. They have done some work in making PDF accessible. Well worth checking out. Steve Dawes PH: (403) 268-5527. Mailto: sdawes@gov.calgary.ab.ca -----Original Message----- From: Rich Caloggero [mailto:rjc@MIT.EDU] Sent: 2002 March 08 2:35 PM To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: PDF Explained Can anyone explain exactly what PDF is. Most importantly, how it relates to postscript? My under standing is that it is a data format, optimized for representing documents. It is a binary format, and not only stores the document text, but font info, formatting info, links, bookmarks, and other objects like images and sound. It does include security/encryption provisions. Can anyone be more complete? I'm trying to get a handle on accessibility and understand more about the relationship between postscript and PDF. Rich Caloggero MIT ATIC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" To: Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:43 PM Subject: Re: Hardware Question > Yeah, he should look at the bios first. However, my intention was to get the jumpers set first, see if it works as is, then if not, yes, do check the bios. I avoided the secondary controller option, because most 486 machines I've seen had to ide ports, that were in fact the one and only controller. So, I didn't want to totally confuse him, if this happened to be the case with his motherboard. > Greg > > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > > > > You need to set a jumper on the hard drive as master (I've also seen some older drives where there was a master with slave option, use that if your drive has such a setting). You also need to set your cd-rom drive's jumper to slave. Hth. > > > Greg > > ok, just to add to this, you'll need to check your cmos/bios setings to > > ensure that your drives are being detected correctly. > > it's not just a matter of setting the jumpers and hoping for the best. > > this is where alot of people go wrong. > > if possible put the cdrom on a seperate ide controler and I personally > > would set it as secondary master. I will stand to be corrected on this but > > if that doesn't work, slave it to your hard drive as either a primary > > slave on the primary ide controler or as a secondary slave on the > > secondary ide controler. > > please feel free to correct me anyone as I don't always get things right. > > -- > > qShaun Oliver > > > > Marriage is a three ring circus: > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. > > -- Roger Price > > > > Email: shauno@goanna.net.au > > Icq: 76958435 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup