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Phoenix0872
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how do I get Adobe reader to read a PDF book aloud?

  • May 2, 2013
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I am trying everythin, it just keeps reading the title of the document.

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    Correct answer Mandeep5062

    Choose View > Read Out Loud > Activate Read Out Loud.

    1. Navigate to the page that you want to read.
    2. Do one of the following:
      • Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read This Page Only.
      • Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read To End Of Document.

    Please See the below document for more details : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7d15.w.html

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    Mandeep5062
    Mandeep5062Correct answer
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    May 3, 2013

    Choose View > Read Out Loud > Activate Read Out Loud.

    1. Navigate to the page that you want to read.
    2. Do one of the following:
      • Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read This Page Only.
      • Choose View > Read Out Loud > Read To End Of Document.

    Please See the below document for more details : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/X/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7d15.w.html

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    madelinekoch
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    August 1, 2013

    I have read the above mentioned document, and I have tried using the accessibility wizard, but I still get inconsistent performance from reading aloud. After I activate Read This Page Only, I click on text to start. Sometimes the box that indicates the selected text is just that paragraph and the narrator starts. Sometimes the box appears but there's no sound. Sometimes the box selected an entire column or even several columns, but there's no sound. These can all happen from one paragraph to the next, on the same page, in the same document.

    I'm using OS 10.8.4 and Acrobat 10.1.7 on a MacBook Air. The pdfs I'm working with were sent to me by a client; their properties say they were created in Indesign CS6 on a Mac (I can provide more info if that's useful). They're not especially complex documents: each is two or three pages long, with a head and some text across two or three columns of text, with one or two pull quotes on a page, and a photograph with a caption.

    Any suggestions on how to get reliable, consistent performance?

    THanks.

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