Hi Rachel,

I'd need to see the actual file to be certain, but it sounds
as if the PDF file in question contains material saved as an
Image.  It's rather like taking a photograph of an old
newspaper, and making the photograph into a PDF file.  A
sighted person can see the picture, and of course read the
text, only it's not text, but a picture.

George. 

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> Subject: [VICUG-L] printing a PDF file with the Freedom 
> Import printer within OpenBook
> 
> Hi.  I'm hoping someone can help me with this.  I tried to

> access a very large PDF document using JAWS 6.1 and
Acrobat 
> 7; but without using the JAWS cursor I couldn't see any
text. 
>  With the JAWS cursor, I saw 1 of x )pages), but nothing 
> else.  I tried converting the file to text, but it saved a

> file with 0K.  I never got the message that the file was a

> graphic image; but for lack of what else to try, I tried 
> printing the file via the Freedom Import printer that
comes 
> with OpenBook.  It went through the pages and gave me 
> percentages of the file that were being printed - or so I 
> thought; but never having used this feature before, I
didn't 
> really know what to expect.  It then opened OpenBook, but
all 
> that said was "no pages."
> I tried closing OpenBook and got the message that a job
was 
> being cancelled.  I ended up having to reboot the computer

> because JAWS became unloaded, and even after I reloaded
it, 
> it wasn't reading things correctly.  Should I have given
the 
> system more time to convert the file?  Does the  converted

> file open up in OpenBook?  As I say, I've never used this 
> feature in OpenBook so don't even know what I'm looking
for.  
> When I was choosing the Freedom Import printer in the
Print 
> dialogue from within Acrobat, should I have checked Print
To 
> File?  Has anyone ever seen this problem with a PDF file 
> where there doesn't seem to be any text, regardless of
which 
> page you look at?
> Thanks for any help you can provide me.
> Rachel
> 
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