On May 5, 2007, at 15:09, Chuck Pelto wrote:

> TO: All
> RE: Success!
>
> I have found a workable solution to this matter.
>
> I tried PDF to iPhoto to iMovie to iDVD.
>
> I tried PDF to iMovie to iDVD.
>
> I tried PDF to Keynote to iDVD.
>
> All of these were remarkably fuzzy.
>
> I tried PDF to JPEG to iDVD (snapshots). THIS WORKS!!!!! The font I  
> used is Geneva. The size is 18 points. On a television screen it  
> comes across legibly.
>
> Thank you....all for your comments and support. The audio file idea  
> is excellent. My only difficulty with it is how do we get THAT to  
> come up in a manner the vision-impaired can readily access, from a  
> disc with so much other material on it, when iDVD cranks out a visual.
>
> I guess I could put in audio instructions in the start up screen.  
> Something like, "For the vision impaired, please (do such and  
> such)...." But is there a better way?
>
> I'm open to suggestions on that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chuck(le)
> [Chance favors the prepared minds. -- Louis Pasteur, Father of  
> Microbiology]

Chuck,

I was thinking about your audio file and then it occurred to me that  
you can have the text of the document be read.
Unfortunately keynote's scriptability leaves a lot to be desired.
but here is the idea.
If you have a pdf file, in Preview you can do that (assuming pdf is  
opened):

<script>
tell application "System Events"
	set frontmost of process "Preview" to true
	tell process "Preview"
		tell menu item 8 of menu 4 of menu bar 1 to click -- selects the  
whole document
		delay 0.2
		tell menu item 5 of menu 4 of menu bar 1 to click
		set tcbd to the clipboard
		my tid(return)
		set curpar to paragraphs 1 thru 4 of tcbd as text
		my tid("")
		say curpar saving to file "HD:Users:userid:desktop:soundfile.aif"--  
saves the text as audio file
	end tell
end tell
</script>


Deivy