Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Adobe Reader can READ

This time I got a mail saying the above subject. I can't believe it. I tried and it worked...
But it is only for windows. :(

Short cut keys for making Adobe to Read a pdf file for you:

Ctrl+shift+b - to hear the entire Document
Ctrl+shift+v - to hear the page
Ctrl+shift+c - to resume
Ctrl+shift+e - to stop

There are lot of ways to make people lazy... This is one among them...
Just kidding. :) :)

2 comments:

Rohith V said...

Are you joking. You mean there is text to speech built into Adobe. This is awesome. No wonder. A lot of bulky white papers and otehr huge docs are published as pdf for stable standard rendering. Most pl take a print-out there by not using the pdf reader software (Adobe here) much. And this is an awesome way to improve traffic thru their s/w....Tell me you are kidding ...

And I am sure they wouldn't do it for Linux because Windows is where the money is and the user community is. Already Linux folks are scared of shipping any 3rd party binary with the distro because of licensing issues. So I see no motivation from Adobe to port the same for Linux

Mani said...

I think it may be that, Adobe might have thought like, it is not worth having this functionality in linux as the number of linux users are much less than windows users. :) and the development cost might be more than what they'll get from supporting these ????

But it will be gud to have such a feature in linux.