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Re: PDFs that read one word per line

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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Jan 27, 2010 6:24AM

Good morning,

Agreed. I imagine you're using IE 8. I believe that Acrobat reader
provides a preference, perhaps in the accessibility configuration, to
not load documents in a browser.

HTH,
Everett

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On 27-Jan-10, at 8:13 AM, Jennison Mark Asuncion wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm late to the discussion, so apologies if this has already been
> covered
> off - when I read that "open parent document" was spoken, the first
> thing
> that springs to mind is that the PDF likely has launched in your
> browser
> VS directly through the PDF reader. While I know the browser-based
> experience has improved with upgrades to JAWS (can't speak to other
> screen
> readers), I always save PDFs locally and launch them with the reader
> when
> ever possible.
>
> Jennison
>
>