[blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW

[David Andrews]

The listserv should pass attachments.

Dave

At 11:03 AM 2/26/2007, you wrote:
>Am I able to send attachments via the list serve?
>I have an attachment of the doc at home and can send it either to the
>list serve or to folks individually, once I get home this evening.  I
>believe that I am running Acrobat 7.0, so Tim's observation may be part
>of my problem.
>Craig
>
>
>Craig Borne, Esq.
>Director, Office of Federal/State Compliance
>Maryland Department of Transportation
>7201 Corporate Center Drive
>P.O. Box 548, M.S. 330
>Hanover, MD 21076
>Phone: 410-865-1378
>Fax: 410-865-1113
>E-Mail: cborne at mdot.state.md.us
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>On Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:48 AM
>To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [blindlaw] PDF Forms and JFW
>
>Craig,
>
>Somehow I missed this note.  Is there a specific document that isn't
>working that you could send to me?  I would like to see if the same
>thing is happening with Window-Eyes, for one thing.  If you are saying
>that you are having a common problem with words running together, I
>think we should make sure we're not talking about some kind of JFW bug.
>
>-----Original Message-----
> >These are PDF documents found on governmental or court websites
> >necessary for filings or guidance.  I am not converting the PDF doc;
> >rather, it is being read by JFW -- only squished together.
> >PDF docs that are merely scanned images, much like a JPG or TIF doc,
> >are not converted by the Adobe program.  Printing and rescanning with
> >Kurzweil seems to be the way to go (unless it can just be imported into
>
> >Kurzweil and converted, bypassing the printing stage, which I don't
> >know whether it will work).
> >My issue is only with those PDF docs that are text based, found
> >on-line, and are not readable by JFW because all of the words run
> >together as one long word.
> >Short of converting them to Word and editing the doc
> >character-by-character, I was hoping that another solution was
>possible.
> >Craig
>
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