"reading aloud until the end of the document" did not work

[MartaB839]

my adobe acrobat dc does not trigger read aloud until the end of the document, it only reads one page. How to solve the problem?
Thank you very much

[AkanchhaS]

Hi Marta,

Hope you are doing well.

As per the issue described above, I believe you are willing to read the entire document in one go. However, its reading only the first page.

I would like you to check the "Read out loud" setting to make sure its set to read the end of the page.

Open Acrobat>Read Out Loud>Activate Reader Out Loud (if its not)> Read To End of Document

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Akanchha

[Kate368862664wxi]

I'm having the same issue, and I tried the solution you mentioned but it doesn't help. Any other advice? Also, the admin just updated my macbook pro with the sonoma 14 operating system. Could this have effected it? It was working fine before the update.

[Carolyn336707189qsl]

Hello!

I am also using Adobe Acrobat DC on a MacBook (Paid license) and I am unable to get the "read aloud until the end of the document" feature to work. No matter what I select, Acrobat will only read to the bottom of the current page. Please advise, thank you!

[e-Patient Dave]

Me too. What's up with this?  I am NOT set to read to end of page, and the sparse documentation I can find does not match what I observe. Here's an example.

I'm on the third page of a chapter. I click where I want it to start. With "read to end of document," it doesn't start there; it goes back to start of chapter and reads to end of that page. 

Other times it will read only the line that I'm on.  Others, it will read the paragraph.  

Please please, what's up with this?  I wanted to use this feature to read the book to me on a long drive but both the feature and the support here seem to be completely broken ... for years.  Help!

[Tariq Ahmad]

Hi @e-Patient Dave, 

Sorry for the delayed response and troubled experience. 

Is it possible for you to record your screen with Audio while these issues are happening? If yes, please upload the recording to any cloud drive, and we will have the product team triage this issue. 

Please share the version number of Acrobat or Reader installed on your machine: https://adobe.ly/3EpwuR8, and help us with the OS name and version number. 

Thank you for the feedback and patience. 

~Tariq

[SiobhanDoc]

Hi, I have the same problem. It will only read the first page.

[e-Patient Dave]

I only saw this now.  

No, it's not possible, and since I've figured out a workaround, I very much doubt that this would have helped. 

What I found is that BY ENDLESS TRIAL AND ERROR POKING AROUND, I can EVENTUALLY (every time) get it to start reading from SOMEWHERE that makes it run continuously. @SiobhanDoc please note.  

I concluded that this is obviously an unfinished piece of software that was released without having a real-world test regime.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and nobody knows why.  (Including Adobe, obviously.)

Don't get me wrong - it's a very useful piece of software, much needed - but it's not yet grown up.  It really ought to be designated beta. 

FWIW I'm on iPhone 13 with iOS 18.1.1 with whatever's the latest Acrobat Reader.

I will speculate, though, that your reader is vulnerable to the chance of many the many weird ways a PDF could look fine to human eyeballs but be nutso-bonkers under the hood.   I'm sure you know what I mean. For instance, the book I eventually listened to would get to end of page and then hop back and read the page header and footer, and oh my goodness what extra fun we'd have if the page happened to end in a hyphenation. 

I've been around PDFs casually since their birth so I have a general sense of the difference between well crafted ones and botch jobs that LOOK fine to the eye...