[blindlaw] first0tear electronic textboks

[E.J. Zufelt]

Another thing that I have found helpful with large texts is to have someone 
use Adobe Acrobat Creator, or another program, to break the textbook down 
into a separate file for each chapter.

Also, some publisher's texts are in protected PDF format.  I believe that 
when you open the file in Acrobat Reader it will say something like "Secure" 
or "protected" in the title bar of the application.  This can sometimes 
cause problems for Assistive Technology.

HTH,
EJ



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leslie Fairall" <fairall at ns.shellworld.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] first0tear electronic textboks


> Hi:
>
> I have the latest edition of Adobe. I had a sighted person try to help me
> as well. Thanks for your suggestion.
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> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Russell J. Thomas, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:43:22 -0700
>> From: "Russell J. Thomas, Jr." <rjtlawfirm at yahoo.com>
>> Reply-To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> To: 'NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List' <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] first0tear electronic textboks
>>
>> What program did you use to convert the pdf? Try adobe 8.1 or PDF 
>> converter.
>> Adobe 8.1 is free; PDF converter is not.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Leslie Fairall
>> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:23 PM
>> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [blindlaw] first0tear electronic textboks
>>
>> Hi everyone:
>>
>> I am looking for previous editions of first-year law textbooks. I 
>> received
>> PDF textbooks from the law school. When I opened them, the files were
>> blank. I tried to cut and paste the document into Microsoft Word and save
>> them into text files, but neither option would not work. I am working 
>> with
>> the school dean to resolve the situation, but I'm in panic mode right now
>> since I start next Tuesday. Right now I have one legal writing book in
>> Word and a previous edition of a criminal law book from Bookshare.org
>> (unfortunately poorly scanned). I will be contacting the publishers
>> tomorrow, but if anyone would be willing to help, please email me. 
>> Thanks.
>>
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