[gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
W. Nick Dotson
nickdotson at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 11 14:30:19 CDT 2007
Actually, "image file", are most common among archivists, and corporate user's who need such aspects of a document as signatures, seals, logos, and the
like, which wouldn't be available in recognized--or text only--versions of the file.
Nick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:15:18 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:
Ray,
I guess I saw this message and responded to it. I said I have Open Book, but
haven't yet learned this procedure on it. So I'm sorry to have made you
write all those clear instructions, below. Thanks again. Also, I'm trying to
learn to do the same thing using Office Tools and Word, if chuck will
clarify his initial instructions.
Whew. I know the people who create a .pdf this way must think it's the most
convenient way to do it, but what a drag to deal with.
Thanks again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
Hi Joel,
I guess my original message never made it to the list. Here's how I
pulled it off.
IF you've got Omnipage Pro version 15
with pdf creator, you can do this.
1. find the file by browsing to it in the normal way.
2. Now, press the applications key which should open the context menu.
3. Within this menu, you will notice a submenu called "omnipage submenu".
4. click on this submenu.
5. Within this menu, you will notice a number of options for converting
your file in to various formats. Just click on the one you want.
6. After a short time, you will notice that a new file has been dropped in
to the same folder as the original document. This file will be a converted
form of the file you were trying to read; and, it will have the same name as
the original but with the file's extension reflecting the conversion.
IF I understand correctly, I believe Open Book and Kirtzwile also have
pdf convertion.
Did you get the converted file?
Sincerely yours,
The Constantly Barefooted,
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Nick Dotson" <
nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <
gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
It could be a "pdf" made of page images, which need to be OCR'ed.
Nick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:24:58 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:
Hi,
Usually, when I encounter a .pdf file, I can click on it and have it open
and become readable with Adobe Reader. I have the latest version, if I
remember correctly, and it set itself up to interact with Jaws when I
installed it.
But with this file, when I try to open it, I get the Adobe interface screen
(I can see this happening) but, within a few seconds after I hear the usual
message that Adobe's preparing the document for reading, a message comes on
saying Warning! Empty document.
Warning? This is like a terrorist problem or something? Anyway, I'm sure
it's not an empty (does that mean blank?) document to the person who sent
it
to me. Why is Adobe saying it's empty, now?
I'm I composed this message as a forward in order to retain the .pdf file
attachment, but I just realized it'll be stripped out of the email as the
message is distributed. Oh, well. So if anyone more experienced than me
would like to try their hand at opening the file so they can help me figure
out how to handle an impasse like this, just write me at
jdeutsch at dslextreme.com
, and I'll gladly send the file as I meant to do
here
to begin with.
thankss a lot.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
Ray,
First, thanks very much! But second, I hope you explain in your email how
you did it. Because I guess I really ought to understand this sort of
problem and learn to solve it.
Joel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Foret Jr." <rforetjr at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
Joel, I just took care of it for you. Check your in box for a private
message from me. Attached to this message will be your file converted from
.pdf scanned immage to an accessible .rtf file.
Sincerely yours,
The Constantly Barefooted,
Ray
Home phone and fax:
(985)853-0139
E-mail:
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Skype Name:
barefootedray
Blog:
www.raysworld.blogs.com
Podcast .rss Feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldofray
God bless President George W. Bush!
God bless our troops!
and God bless America
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
Nick,
Maybe that's it. Oh, God. does that mean I have to learn this whol thing
about using the Freedom Printer function in Open Book, and this, and that?
I'll bet anything you're a Kurzweill person and wouldn't know. Or do you?
----- Original Message -----
From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] need help to open a difficult .pdf file
It could be a "pdf" made of page images, which need to be OCR'ed.
Nick
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:24:58 -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:
Hi,
Usually, when I encounter a .pdf file, I can click on it and have it open
and become readable with Adobe Reader. I have the latest version, if I
remember correctly, and it set itself up to interact with Jaws when I
installed it.
But with this file, when I try to open it, I get the Adobe interface screen
(I can see this happening) but, within a few seconds after I hear the usual
message that Adobe's preparing the document for reading, a message comes on
saying Warning! Empty document.
Warning? This is like a terrorist problem or something? Anyway, I'm sure
it's not an empty (does that mean blank?) document to the person who sent
it
to me. Why is Adobe saying it's empty, now?
I'm I composed this message as a forward in order to retain the .pdf file
attachment, but I just realized it'll be stripped out of the email as the
message is distributed. Oh, well. So if anyone more experienced than me
would like to try their hand at opening the file so they can help me figure
out how to handle an impasse like this, just write me at
jdeutsch at dslextreme.com, and I'll gladly send the file as I meant to do
here
to begin with.
thankss a lot.
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