Hi William,
In very simple terms, a BRF file is plain text, with only basic controls such
as new page.
If you have Duxbury, and translate a file into braille, by default, braille
dots will appear on screen. From the “View” menu, you can select “Print Font”,
and what appears there is what a BRF file will send to a braille device such as
an embosser or braille display.
Each character shown will cause a specific pattern of dots to appear on the
device.
Where you have to be careful with these files is the line and page dimensions
in braille characters. For example, if your BRF file is 40 cells wide, you
will need paper around 11 inches wide to produce a braille hard copy on a
braille embosser. However, if the reader wishes to use say letter width paper,
it simply will not fit unless you produce a BRF with around 30 cells per line.
Does that begin to cover a few of the basics?
Feel free to contact me off list if you would like to go into more depth.
George W. F. Bell
Managing Director
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
76 Bunting Road Ind. Est.
NORTHAMPTON
NN2 6EE
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 160 479 2777
Fax: +44 (0) 160 479 2726
E-mail: George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:George@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Web: http://www.techno-vision.co.uk
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
William Jeffries
Sent: 22 November 2018 17:15
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Braille Ready Format
At our last Braille Circulating Library board meeting we briefly discussed
Braille Ready Format - basically our understanding this is a document, artical
Book or what ever desired to be put into a format that a visually impaired
person could download who have braille machines that can convert into braille
for reading purposes?
Our visually impaired Board member who is Director of Training for the visual
impaired for the Commonwealth of Virginia introduced this to us without details.
Anyone familiar with this and can explain in detail how this works?
The concept is quite revolutionary as we are working on a new website dedicated
to visually impaired and this would be quite an addition to our concept of
services offered. We currently are converting all of our cassette tape audio
files into digital format exclusively available to the blind community.
William Jeffries, Interim Director,
Braille Curculating Library for the Blind Inc.
Smartphone
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:56 AM George Bell
<george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Ronald,
I'm glad you said you had dictated it 😊
There are generally two considerations when pricing. Preparation Time and
Production Time.
The trickiest question is usually preparation. If it comes as a well Style
Word document, aside from graphics, it can be fairly quick. If not, it could
take much longer.
Without seeing the graphics makes that an unknown quantity.
And did you really mean eight dot braille?
George
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> On Behalf
Of Ronald Grigg
Sent: 22 November 2018 03:29
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [duxuser] How to price out embossing project
Hello, I have been asked to prepare some braille document.
It will be approximately 100 pages of braille. They wanted to be in 8.computer
braille. There will also be a few pages of graphics to and boss.
How do I go about setting a price for this. Or, should I just do it and not
building anything?
Thanks, ronald.
PS I’m dictating this and for some reason dictation is not working very good
tonight. I know there’s a few dictation errors.
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