An Accessible Adobe Reader for Linux

[Gregory Nowak]

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That's interesting, since I seem to recall that adobee suspended that
service a while back, due to the fact that acrobat reader 5 provides
accessibility. Of course, they did fail to mention that you had to
have a fairly recent windows screenreader for it to work (grrrr). 

Greg


On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:21:43AM -0700, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> Jinina and all,
> 
> Don't forget about the service that Adobe provides that converts PDF to
> either text or html formats.
> 
> If you come across a pdf file that you want to read on the Web, you
> simply submit the url to the adobe conversion tool and it does the
> conversion for you and then you can read it with your browser of choice.
> The text solution requires you to email the pdf file to adobe's
> conversion tool and they email you back the converted file almost
> immediately.
> 
> So, you can already read PDF from linux if you need or so choose, to do
> so. 
> 
> The Adobe conversion tool and all you want to know about it can be found
> at:
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
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