[duxuser] Re: Question about portabooks
- From: Dave Durber <dadurber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:40:17 -0400
More importanly, .brf files are ASCII files. In otherwords, they are
text files.
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:48:24 -0500, you wrote:
>NBP books are readable with any Braille displays. The files are in .brf
>meaning it is in contracted Braille.
>I have recently purchased several books from NBP that I was able to
>download. I really love it.
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>Lisa Hall,
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>Former Consultant for Adaptive Technology for Northwest Vista College, a
>college of the Alamo Community College District.
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>Web page: http://home.satx.rr.com/lisahall
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>Phone: (210) 829-4571
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>E-mail and MSN I.D.: lhall10@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Stephan Britt
>Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 2:37 PM
>To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [duxuser] Re: Question about portabooks
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>Are NBP books readable with braille displays using DBT, or does one have to
>purchase a decryption key, like with Bookshare books?
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>Steve Britt
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>>>> david@xxxxxxxxxx 9-26-2005 03:03:55 PM >>>
>It is my understanding that the CD-ROMs containing braille formatted files
>from NBP come with a program called Embossit 2.0. Embossit is written by
>Duxbury Systems to make the embossing of braille formatted files as easy as
>possible.
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>As part of the agreement between Duxbury Systems and National Braille Press
>is that it is National Braille Press's job to do tech support for the
>copies of Embossit that are distributed on their CD-ROMs.
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>Part of the idea behind Embossit is that embossing braille formatted files
>should be easier than dealing with the average braille project.
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>What is the carriage length and form length? It is the dimensions of the
>page already embedded in the file. Thus Embossit does not ask you page
>dimensions. Once you specify the file, it already knows the page dimensions.
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>All DBT users are welcome to emboss braille formatted files with DBT, if
>they choose. But you might get exactly the same result with a lot less
>complication just by using Embossit.
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>-- David Holladay
>Duxbury Systems
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