[bksvol-discuss] Re: kurzweil file weirdness .brl versus .brf
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:58:21 -0500
Hey Julie,
That's good to know. I bet the renaming of a BRF to BRL would have some
difficulties if the BRF has formatting. Glad to know the other way works
though.
Thanks,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Morales" <inlovewithchrist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 11:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: kurzweil file weirdness .brl versus .brf
> 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?
> >
> > Pam
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi everyone.
> > >
> > >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*.
> > >
> > >
> > >Cheryl Fogle MA
> > >Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, University of New Mexico
> >
> >
> >
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