Acrobat 7 Accessibility - Turning Off Reading

#1 11-05-2008, 03:36 PM

I am using Acrobat 7.0.5 Professional. Recently, the program began automatically launching the dialog box to read a document out loud each time a new document is opened.

I searched the help files and cannot find any way to turn this feature off.

Anyone know how this works.

#2 11-05-2008, 03:59 PM

Try checking View>Read Out Load. That may not do it, but it is a starting place.

#3 11-06-2008, 09:14 AM

First check Document Properties and check Advanced options.
Next try Edit > Preferences > Reading....see what is set.

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#4 11-07-2008, 04:52 PM

I rechecked all of these.

View > Read Out Load lets me read the document now.

Edit > Preferences > Reading sets the criteria to be used in reading when it is triggered.

But unless I'm being blind, I don't see anything about automatically reading a document when opened.

#5 11-07-2008, 06:21 PM

I think that selection may be in the PDF itself, but I am not sure. It might be worth checking the document properties just in case.

#6 11-10-2008, 12:09 PM

There are a few additional suggestions for turning this off at:
<http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=13663>

#7 11-10-2008, 10:21 PM

Should have thought of this myself. It was always a basic principle of mine: "Blame Microsoft First".

I went into the Windows Accessibility Utility Manager, unclicked a few boxes, and voila! Acrobat is cured.

Thank you!

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