From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.36.233]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AHTw7-0006xR-00 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:07:28 -0500 Received: from tomass (cs666898-149.austin.rr.com [66.68.98.149]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.2) with ESMTP id hA5K7NY9004245 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:07:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from stivers_t by tomass with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AHTw3-0004Ir-2L for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:07:23 -0600 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:07:23 -0600 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20031105200722.GB10038@tomass.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <6D3A09C6CAB0D311BA5000902760D022040F1ECD@chpt0000se01.cherrypoint.usmc.mil> <20031105164829.GK17772@rednote.net> <6.0.0.22.0.20031105141430.0289c380@pop1.sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Request-PGP: http://tomass.dyndns.org/~stivers_t/pubkey.asc X-Uptime: 4 weeks 2 days 5 hours 30 minutes 31 seconds User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Thomas Stivers Subject: Re: Mobile Accessibility X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 20:07:28 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/03 1:28 PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Oh no. > I was able to download it fine, and the table of contents was fine I > think. but there must have been columns or something strange, because > sentences from the text were interspersed, waving back and forth between > topics. I tried converting the pdf file both to html and text with the > same results. > But it really doesn't matter now in this particular instance, since i'm > having it brailled. However, it does point out one of the pdf files, at > least in linux and maybe in general; I don't know. I have had similar problems with converting pdf's and unfortunately I don't know if you can say they are inaccessable because they can usually be read fine with jfw and acrobat. This problem is similar to the trouble with web sites and again the answer you will hear on this list is that the pdf was made incorrectly, and the answer you will hear elsewhere is "what?! you don't use jfw?!". There may be a way to unwrap the interspersed lines with some programming trick, but I haven't tried it and that wouldn't be the ideal solution anyway. - -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qVh65JK61UXLur0RAiofAJ9hWDyi/2eCRuu7XvMxFLY6q/6r0wCeIkfp hhNPdVsHNNd+/7SqQ2AYVXs= =6kqp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----