I could but..

Stuart Thiessen sw at PASSITONSERVICES.ORG
Mon Oct 29 18:51:01 UTC 2007


I think it would just be a matter of telling the Filemaker report to  
use a black background for the reports and then change all the SW  
symbols to white. Then export that to PDF?

Thanks,

Stuart

On 29 Oct 2007, at 13:37 , Valerie Sutton wrote:

> On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Gagnon et Thibeault wrote:
>> It seems that the DocumentMaker (PDF document) is only white on  
>> black, not black on white.  Microsoft Word can be both white on  
>> black and black on white.  I dislike PDF document because it is not  
>> easy to read white on black for me.  If I copy and paste it into  
>> Microsoft Word, this document is always white on black.
>
> Hi Andre -
> I believe you are talking about reversing the screen when you are  
> reading? Because the document is definitely black on white for  
> sighted people looking at the PDF...
>
> So I do not know what you mean...I am sorry I am so uneducated to  
> Blind screen issues...I know on the Mac you have a lot of  
> flexibility how you view the screen and it is not based on PDF  
> versus Microsoft Word...the whole computer can change to many  
> different view formats no matter what software you are using...too  
> bad you have limitations on your computer...
>
> If I download the first document on this web page:
>
> http://www.SignWriting.org/library/bible
>
> download John Chapters 1-3...that document is dark ink on white  
> paper for sighted people...
>
> I have to use PDF because the software DocumentMaker can only save a  
> file in either FileMaker or PDF formats...those are the only two  
> choices we have. There is special programming we would have to do to  
> save to Microsoft Word and I do not have the funds right now to  
> invest in that, because PDF is the world standard....I personally  
> prefer PDF to Word any day!!
>
> I can ask Adobe, who makes the PDF format, if there are ways to get  
> more features for you -
>
> Val ;-)
>
>
>
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