From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-24-221-98-238.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.98.238] helo=lnx1.holmesgrown.com ident=steve) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16Qvmo-0006Kq-00 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 14:32:00 -0500 Received: from localhost (steve@localhost) by lnx1.holmesgrown.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA32067 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:31:50 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:31:44 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Holmes To: Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files. In-Reply-To: <004301c19ea6$76d64c40$c2f20141@cp286066a> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Optacon? The last one I had cost over $4000! It'll be a cold day in hell before I could afford something like that. Yes, Optacons fill a unique nich which just doesn't get filled with current technology. Key here is getting around copy-protection. I really fault Adobe systems on this one. Surely, there's gotta be a way to expose PDF text to the reader with or with out a password The notion that the MSAA features for the Acrobat reader are excluded from protected documents is totally stupid and Adobe should have never come up with this infiror design flaw!!! On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, David Poehlman wrote: > there may soon be a new optacon. I hope it will acces directly with a > pc and also hope that a method of using it with linux is devised. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Geoff Shang" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:24 AM > Subject: Re: Problems with pdf files. > > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Maurice A. Mines wrote: > > > is this person a colage student herein the us? if he is he shud be > asking > > fore reader services. thats how I get round this problem. > > I don't mean to offend anybody, but this is just not good enough. It > seems > stupid in this day and age to have to get a sighted person to read you > something that was produced electronically and I for one wouldn't stand > for > it. It's bad enough that sighted people ask you if you have someone who > can see to read it to you, heaven forbid that we have blind people > advocating the same thing. > > OK OK, so if you really need access to something, at least it gets the > job > done. but I'd be persuing many other avenues first. > > Geoff. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >