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Are you a #ttrpg creator publishing your games in PDF format? Are you someone who uses text-to-speech (TTS) technology? Or both? Then I& #39;d appreciate if you could spare a moment.
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Last week, I found out that depending on what type of PDF you save your games as, people using TTS technology might be barred from accessing your games or at least have a harder time doing so. Didn& #39;t know that there& #39;s more than one type of PDF? Me neither. So let& #39;s start there.
Basically, there are image PDFs and text PDFs. Image PDFs kind of "lock" any text in the file and you can& #39;t mark it with your cursor to copy/paste it - which is possible with text PDFs. TTS technology cannot read image PDFs.
There are optical character recognition apps out there that can read text on images/image PDFs. I tried out two. It works, but it& #39;s cumbersome, and really good OCR software is expensive. - Alright, let& #39;s circle back for a second. Who uses TTS technology?
A lot of folx out there use text-to-speech for a variety of reasons, be it visual or reading impairments, ADHD, or simply the convenience of having information fed to your ears while doing something else. More on TTS technology: https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/assistive-technology/assistive-technologies-basics/text-to-speech-technology-what-it-is-and-how-it-works">https://www.understood.org/en/school...
So, how can we save our games as text PDFs? The only way I know to make that work on a PC right now is to use the PRINT TO PDF option (thanks to @ClericofKord and her player for passing on that info!!). Instead of saving your game directly as a PDF, open the print interface...
...but in the printer menu, choose "Microsoft print to PDF." That did the trick - the PDF could be directly read by the TTS software. I& #39;m not a Mac person but I assume Macs have something similar...? It would be great if you could give that a try and let me know!
Lastly, if you are using TTS and feel that this thread is missing important information, please join the conversation 
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