PDF Explained

[Janina Sajka]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Dawes, Stephen wrote:

> Rich, have you checked out what Adobe has to offer for accessibility. They have done some work in making PDF accessible. 
> Well worth checking out.

Well worth? Are you kidding? Even on Windows you'd do much better with the 
Elcom software and the registry hack published on the Adobe remedies page.

> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
> PH:  (403) 268-5527. 
> Mailto:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Caloggero [mailto:rjc at MIT.EDU]
> Sent: 2002 March 08 2:35 PM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: PDF Explained
> 
> 
> Can anyone explain exactly what PDF is. Most importantly, how it relates to
> postscript? My under    standing is that it is a data format, optimized for
> representing documents. It is a binary format, and not only     stores the
> document text, but font info, formatting info, links, bookmarks, and other
> objects like images and sound. It does include security/encryption
> provisions. Can anyone be more complete? I'm trying to get a handle on
> accessibility and understand more about the relationship between postscript
> and PDF.
> 
>                     Rich Caloggero
>                     MIT ATIC
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Hardware Question
> 
> 
> > Yeah, he should look at the bios first. However, my intention was to get
> the jumpers set first, see if it works as is, then if not, yes, do check the
> bios. I avoided the secondary controller option, because most 486 machines
> I've seen had to ide ports, that were in fact the one and only controller.
> So, I didn't want to totally confuse him, if this happened to be the case
> with his motherboard.
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:34:32PM +1100, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > >
> > > > You need to set a jumper on the hard drive as master (I've also seen
> some older drives where there was a master with slave option, use that if
> your drive has such a setting). You also need to set your cd-rom drive's
> jumper to slave. Hth.
> > > > Greg
> > > ok, just to add to this, you'll need to check your cmos/bios setings to
> > > ensure that your drives are being detected correctly.
> > > it's not just a matter of setting the jumpers and hoping for the best.
> > > this is where alot of people go wrong.
> > > if possible put the cdrom on a seperate ide controler and I personally
> > > would set it as secondary master. I will stand to be corrected on this
> but
> > > if that doesn't work, slave it to your hard drive as either a primary
> > > slave on the primary ide controler or as a secondary slave on the
> > > secondary ide controler.
> > > please feel free to correct me anyone as I don't always get things
> right.
> > > --
> > > qShaun Oliver
> > >
> > > Marriage is a three ring circus:
> > > engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
> > >                 -- Roger Price
> > >
> > > Email: shauno at goanna.net.au
> > > Icq: 76958435
> > >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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