[duxuser] Re: Setting up more than one embosser
- From: "Blackburn, Alan" <Alan.Blackburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:25:27 +1100
Mornin' all
In all deference to Georges "round the houses" template solution, which
no doubt works but sounds like it will take longer than changing the
embosser settings and is after all just a work-around, until Duxbury
does something about the illogical, convoluted and drama ridden global
vs document embosser setup tug-o-war these problems will persist (how
much traffic on this list is about embossing problems?).
I've tried, and as far as I know there is no way you can make any
changes to the GLOBAL parameters "stick" ... they always re-default to
some useless pre-set settings, so each time you change your DOCUMENT
embosser you end up with those silly none-sense parameters again. We run
4 embossers and I personally have had a gut full of fighting with the
stupid programme about them. I've given up and just use the one embosser
now (another, not ideal, work-around!!!).
How about just making the Global embosser settings user-definable per
embosser so each time it is selected in the document embosser set-up it
drags in the RIGHT parameters (read user) rather than some useless
factory pre-set.
I know it is all supposed to be to do with embedding the embosser
parameters in the saved file which works very nicely when re-loaded to
do re-prints, but that doesn't explain why the global parameters won't
stick.
Please enlighten me ... 'cos, as usual, I've probably got it all wrong
(I do that a lot you know):-)
Whew ... that feels better, as I say this is an on-going saga for me
(and many others).
Alan
PS I seem to remember all this coming up before and it was suggested as
a fix to change emb.elt ... wouldn't it be better to fix the program
rather than having the user try to do some RE-programming?
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From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Denise and Jim
Sent: Friday, 10 February 2006 12:04 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Setting up more than one embosser
Would like to hear suggestions also. This has just happened to me too!
And I am having a dickens of a time making it stick. I am tempted to
return to the old one just to avoid the headache. Every second counts
this year in getting these materials out and fast!
Denise
----- Original Message -----
From: Janet Reynolds <mailto:JReynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:04 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Setting up more than one embosser
This is a problem we also have here at RNZFB. We have three
identical embossers, and as soon as you change to a different one the
document embosser settings default to 44, 27. If anyone has a solution
that would be wonderful.
Janet
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kathy Riessen
Sent: Friday, 10 February 2006 11:59 a.m.
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Setting up more than one embosser
We have just moved onto Duxbury from Megadots and as
such purchased Duxbury 10.5
We have 2 embossers which are connected to our system
and each is used as often as the other, depending on the type of
material being produced.
My dilemma is:
When trying to set up the Global Embossers I can have
both embossers listed as Brailler Devices, but seem to be able to only
set the Desired Braille Document Formatting on one of them - this one
becoming the embosser of choice for new documents. As soon as I try
changing the settings on another one, that one reverts back to the
suggested settings which are nothing like we use.
This means that everytime I want to select the other
embosser in my Document Setup, I have to manually put in the Desired
Document Formatting for that embosser.
Can I globally set up more than one embosser with our
Standard Parameters, so that I can then select either one in the
Document Setup without having to check whether or not the line width,
number of lines, top margin etc are correct.
Kathy
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Kathy Riessen, Braille Production Coordinator
South Australian School for Vision Impaired
1B Duncan Avenue, Park Holme, SA 5043
Tel: 8277 5255, Fax: 8277 5051
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