If you would like the View > Read Out Loud function (Acrobat 6 or higher)
to be useful, PDFs must be actively tested. There are different reasons why
results may be incorrect:

* Having Tagged PDF displayed as "Yes" in the PDF document properties
dialog box does not guarantee correct results for Read Out Loud. Two
examples are described at http://www.microtype.com/homeHmmm.html (where
Acrobat says "Warning! Empty Page!" for some of the pages).

* Bitmapped/scanned PDFs: "The Next Wave: Network Publishing" PDF
(http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0509) demonstrates problems when some
text is bitmapped ("You look trademark everywhere. BBC. BBC. BBC...")

* The Read Out Loud function is color-blind; white text, although invisible
on a white background, is spoken -- see
http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0412 for additional discussion and examples

* Additional problems that could affect results of Read Out Loud: incorrect
order of text blocks, artificially-emboldened fonts, font transformation


Shlomo Perets

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