Read aloud function

Hi,
I am just wondering if someone could help me out and explain what i need to do in order to use the read alound function in adobe reader
Thanks

You need to go to the View menu, Read Out Load, and click on Activate Read Out Loud. Then go back to the same menu and select one of the Read options (current page only/entire document).

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Try a reset: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps from the tray before doing the reset.

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There are third party apps* for this, but they lock you into their format and don't support every thing that a native FXL Indesign epub export does. Doing all the work manually for creating the SMIL file and marking the audio, etc. Is just way to hard and easy to fail at for most of us.
MANY publishers want this feature! PLEASE I beg of you, nobody can put their massive coding muscles behind such an effort like Adobe. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE consider adding an easy read-aloud margin function to the InDesign suite?
I would even pay extra for this. On bended knee, I beg you.
Aquafadas = inscrutable instructions. Expensive. French. (Can't be bothered to help customers.)
CircularFLO = easier read-aloud, but LAME-O animations, won't support InDesign animations. (Also no support. And they definitely do not want you guys to see their code.)
Please?

There are third party apps* for this, but they lock you into their format and don't support every thing that a native FXL Indesign epub export does. Doing all the work manually for creating the SMIL file and marking the audio, etc. Is just way to hard and easy to fail at for most of us.
MANY publishers want this feature! PLEASE I beg of you, nobody can put their massive coding muscles behind such an effort like Adobe. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE consider adding an easy read-aloud margin function to the InDesign suite?
I would even pay extra for this. On bended knee, I beg you.
Aquafadas = inscrutable instructions. Expensive. French. (Can't be bothered to help customers.)
CircularFLO = easier read-aloud, but LAME-O animations, won't support InDesign animations. (Also no support. And they definitely do not want you guys to see their code.)
Please?

Best practice for read-only functionality

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I'm part of the development team of a system with about 100 screens. The customer would like us to add some read-only functionality to the system, so that certain users are able to access the screens but not change any of the data on them. We already have policies in place on the database level that keeps read-only users from saving data, but it's not very user friendly to allow users to change data on a screen, only to tell them that they're not allowed to save those changes once they try to do so. It would clearly be better if all components are rendered as read-only components for read-only users, making them unable to make any data changes in the first place.
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Hi Guna, Puthanampatti and Don,
Thanks a lot for your replies. I'm currently looking into implementing something along the lines of what Guna has suggested:
Our application consists of a number of individual work spaces that are deployed as adflibs which have all been added to a "master application work space", and the master application is deployed as an .ear file. Most of the individual work spaces are for all the different functional areas of the application, with their own task flows, page fragments etc. The rest are work spaces with common functionality, like datamodel (entity definitions), utility methods, page templates, and framework extensions. In the latter, we have defined custom classes for all the base classes (somewhat similar to what Don describes, I believe).
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@Don: What you describe seems to be pretty close in functionality to what we already have, though your implementation is different from ours. You have used your custom base ApplicationModuleImpl class to keep read-only users from committing changes. We use Virtual Private Database and database policies to the same end: If a user without the required full-access role tries to commit data it will cause a database error, which we then handle in the application (so the user gets a message like "You don't have the required privileges to changes this data", rather than an ORA message). Unfortunately, our customers are not content with this. They want a solution where all input fields and most of the buttons etc. are disabled for read-only users, and that's why I'm looking into the best/smartest way to do this.
@Puthanampatti: We already use something similar to what you're suggesting. The challenge I'm currently facing is how best to disable/enable components based on the current user's roles, not how to determine and store those roles.
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Some words are not highlighting on my read-aloud epubs after updating IOS 6.0.1 and iBooks 3.0.1 on both my iPad 2 and iPad 3. They are working absolutely fine earlier. I even updated the latest version of iBooks 3.0.2 but nothing is working. Can anybody help?

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