Kathy, this is great stuff. I found the info about the program very
misleading and one-sided. Thanks for posting that!!!


Joseph J. Lazzaro
HTTP://JoeLazzaro.Com

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Kathleen Cahill wrote:

> Hi all;
>
> For what it is worth, one of our student workers downloaded and installed
> PDF Aloud.  Here are his comments.
>
> The PDFaloud plugin adds a toolbar to the Adobe Acrobat Reader which reads
> and highlights text.  The drawback is that it will only work for pdfaloud
> speech-enabled PDFs.  The only such pdfs I found were on the PDFaloud
> website.  For those documents, the reading for the plugin worked okay, but
> Adobe seemed to freeze up when I tried to change the speech options.
>
> I hope this helps if people are curious about the product and what it does.
>
> Kathy
>
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