Category: Geeks r Us
I have a PDF document here. About 300 pages. I want to sit down and do a say-all and have the screen reader read aloud until I hit ctrl to stop it. Same as I would on a Web page. That is my ideal starting point. How can I accomplish this? Open to any screen reader. Could not accomplish this with either JAWS or NVDA but there are probably lots of things I don't know. If that is not a possibility, is there a hotkey I can press to go to the next page when the say-all has finished reading the currently displayed page? I tried enabling automatic scrolling and some other items, but nothing worked quite like I wanted it. What about Open Book from FS? Any help would be most appreciated!
For me it depends on how the document was created.
When I have one to read, ant this is all the time, I open it in the "read entire document mode." I don't like "read visible pages."
After that I just read it much like a word document. If I want to go to the next page I press the page down button. Go back a page I get to the top of the page I'm reading and press the page up button.
Sometimes the right or left arrow keys will change the pages. Sometimes the document has a table of contents and I can jump directly to the spot I want and sometimes when I open it up I am at the point I left off readingt it at after closing it, much like a book mark.
I know this is a lame description, but it is the best I can give, because all this depends on the first thing how it was created.
Have you tried asking the tech department of the screen reader you are using for help?
Thanks. The "display all pages" option is one I had not tried. I think that was my biggest issue. I semi-attempted it at work but the processing time on that slow computer was so long I opted to abandon it. I expect it to work much better on my home computer. Thanks! Will keep you posted.