[bksvol-discuss] Re: kurzweil file weirdness .brl versus .brf
- From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:48:38 -0700
Hi, Jake. It does still work, and the files do still open properly. I think
the difference is really that the .brf files are supposed to be formatted
braille, while the .brl files are just braille without formatting, but if
you change the extension, it still works properly and programs are still
able to open it. Of course, I wouldn't encourage anyone to do this to any
other file without knowing for sure that that was what you wanted to do, but
the first time I did it, I saved the file under another name so I'd have two
copies in case anything did go wrong, but it still worked. If you do try
that with any other type of file...well, you really shouldn't, but if you
must, make a backup copy somewhere. Take care.
Julie Morales
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: kurzweil file weirdness .brl versus .brf
Hey Pam,
I'm no expert on BRL vs BRF, but my understanding is that they are two
different formats. If that's true it'd be like changing a .doc extension to
.rtf and then trying to open the rtf in Wordpad, the program would have no
idea what to do.
I would always caution against renaming extensions unless the files are in
plain text. For instance .log files often can be renamed to .txt files and
read quite easily.
Cheers!
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pam Quinn" <quinn.family@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 11:25 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: kurzweil file weirdness .brl versus .brf
> Wouldn't it work just to rename the .brl files with a .brf extension?
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> Pam
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> > Hi everyone.
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> >This evening I encountered some weirdness with braille files on the step
1 page. Some books were listed as .brf extention, but once unzipped, they
turned out to be the .brl files which is another kind of braille file. I
opened the file using Kurzweil and checked it for completeness. When I
tried to upload the book, bookshare wouldn't take it because the .brl
extention didn't match the .brf extention it was expecting. I rejected the
book and wrote the submitter. Still, I wanted to caution anyone not to
submit .brl files because bookshare won't let you upload them in any other
form than .brf. the .brl and .brf extentions aren't compatible. It's like
trying to use kurzweil to open .ark files. You can't even translate the
.brl file to print and upload a .rtf file because bookshare wants .brf
extentions only for braille files. Ok, I promise my next post won't be so
technical *smile*.
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> >Cheryl Fogle MA
> >Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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