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 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- 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) http://www.openebook.org
