[RWP] vMouse for NVDA now free.

[Alex H.]

Adobe sucks in general; I prefer Firefox PDF viewing, or qRead if for
some reason that doesn't wanna work. Chrome's PDF parser isn't bad
either.

This vMouse thing's pretty neat too. I'm sure I'll find some great uses for it.

Alex

On 1/24/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> I'll try clicking on a PDF in Chrome  and let you know.
> I've got in the habit of downloading PDF's and opening thenm on my
> desktop, then selecting all and pasteing the text into Jarte, which
> takes much less time than letting Adobe Reader save the PDF as text.
> There's another slight advantage to saveing the PDF, since some of them
> have pictures with panel layouts and such; that I sometimes have got
> someone with sight to explain.
> What I hate most about Adobe programs is their auto-updateing, with
> their annoying update popups.
> also, once Adobe Reaper brought in a virus with its automatic update.
> In its settings you can select to not allow updates, but it's a lie, it
> auto-updates anyway.
> Indi
>
> On 1/24/2014 4:44 PM, Monkey Pusher wrote:
>> What happens when you click a link to a pDF in chrome?
>>
>> On 1/24/14, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>> I don't know where Chrome could give me text from PDF without my having
>>> Adobe Reader installed.
>>> I use Chrome every day, and finally found where to grab a web page's URl
>>> among its menus.
>>> I still can't get Chrome to let NVDA do its progress report when
>>> downloading.
>>> Otherwise, apart from those few issues, Chrome is very stable, leaps
>>> tall buildings in a single bound, and flies faster than the speed of
>>> light;
>>>
>>> On 1/24/2014 7:52 AM, TheOreoMonster wrote:
>>>> both firefox and chrome should have PDF Parsing built into their latest
>>>> versions now.
>>>> On Jan 23, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm running NVDA only now, as a discipline not to run back to familiar
>>>>> wineyes or jaws to find something on a VST plug's interface with their
>>>>> admittedly powerful numPad cursors.
>>>>> Free VMouse will hopefully strengthen NVDA's numPad abilities.
>>>>> I also love that NVDA gets along beautifully with google chrome, so I
>>>>> can
>>>>> scoot around the web like greased lightening, plus don't need Adobe
>>>>> Flash
>>>>> Player installed to run YouTubes.
>>>>> If I can find a way to open PDF's without Adobe Reader I'll be free of
>>>>> anything from Adobe.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/22/2014 9:57 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>>>>>> hay folks, just wanted to let yall no, that vMouse  for nvda is now
>>>>>> free.
>>>>>> i think it can do some of the things that hot spot clicker can do
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> jaws, not sure thoe.
>>>>>>
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