[duxuser] Re: Fw: Embossing on Romeo 20/40 using 10.6
- From: David Holladay <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:01:07 -0400
Enabling embossers can accept escape sequences.
There could be legitimate reasons for not wanting your embosser to respond
to commands from a software program.
Because this is all optional, there is a question in the DBT 10.6 embosser
setup, (in the middle pane) asking if your embosser accepts escape sequences.
I suspect that you checked this box in DBT 10.6, and that in fact, the
Romeo is set to not accept to escape sequences.
So these command sequences print out as a few extra garbage characters at
the beginning of eqch embosser job.
So, you can turn on "listening" to escape sequences, or tell DBT that your
embosser is not paying any attention to these commands.
In general, it is a good idea to have the Romeo listen to escape sequences
since then you the user are not responsible for all the details of the page
layout on the embosser.
For the general audience out there (hopefully not experiencing this issue),
I will say that listening to escape sequences is the default for just about
every Enabling embosser,
and sending out escape sequences is the default for Duxbury DBT. So this
issue usually does not come up.
Yes, you can go back to version 10.4. But I can tell you that we used to
have many, many tech support calls from customers who did not know how to
set up the page layout
on their embossers. These phone calls went away now that we do it for you.
All you need to do is tell you embosser that it is really OK to pay
attention and to respond appropriately
to these command characters.
-- David Holladay
At 10:34 AM 12/5/2007, you wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:lschindl@xxxxxxxxx>SCHINDLER, LORE
To: <mailto:caryn@xxxxxxxxxx>caryn@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:04 PM
Subject: Embossing on Romeo 20/40 using 10.6
Hi,
A couple braillists have told me that when they emboss using 10.6 on the
Romeo 20/40 embosser, they get a partial line of braille text on the first
page of any document. If it's a multi-page document, it's only on the
first page.
I tested out a Romeo I had in my lab with 10.6, and found that the same
thing happened to me. Same with ver.10.5, but when I used 10.4, no extra
string of text at the top.
Do you have any fixes in 10.6 that I just don't know about. Some of the
braillists say they want to go back to 10.4--
Lore Schindler
Technology Coordinator, Visually Impaired Program
Los Angeles Unified School District
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