[brailleblaster] Re: Discrepancy in translation with UTD
- From: "Vic Beckley" <vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 23:29:28 -0400
Hi John,
This does seem to be working. It is honoring the settings. Even decreasing
the margins, I still can't get the book to translate into as few pages as
when not using UTD, though. I haven't tried embossing yet to see if my
settings work.
Eventually will all translation be done in UTD format? If not, why would you
use it over standard translation? I am still not understanding this
completely.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Discrepancy in translation with UTD
Hi Vic,
The settings are in inches. You will notice that the paper width is 9.5
and most of the margins are 0.5, except the left, which is 1 inch for
binding. It certainly works.
John
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 09:19:08PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> John,
>
> I understand. That explains why my settings aren't being honored. Can you
> enter the settings in inches or do you have to enter pixels? What is the
> width of a standard Braille margin? I will try this out as soon as I get a
> chance. Is it supposed to work now?
>
>
> Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
>
> Vic
> E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:36 PM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Discrepancy in translation with UTD
>
> Here is a more detailed explanation of the discrepancy. It may be
> instructive and even useful.
>
> UTD is a graphical mode. It is based on a resolution of 20 dpi at
> present, although the user may be able to specify the resolution in the
> future. It also operates on full pages, so braillePages is set to yes .
> Because it deals with pages, it requires that the paper width, paper
> height and margins must be specified. If you look at a recent
> preferences.cfg you will see these specifications. Braille is monospaced
> horizontally. The wieth of a braille cell is 5 pixels. Horizontal
> spacing varies according to whether the braille cells in a line have 6
> or 8 dots. If a line contains only 6-dot cells the horizontal spacing is
> 8. If it contains even one 8-dot cell the horizontal spacing is 10.
>
> When utd is specified the cellsperline and linesperpage settings are
> ignored. and the paper size and margin information is used. You can get
> the number of cells and lines you want by calculating the paper size and
> margins.
>
> The settings dialogue will eventually allow you to chose this
> information, as will embosser setup.
>
> John
>
> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:24:11AM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > I don't know if you realize this or if it is significant at this point
in
> > development but when you translate a file in UTD mode it doesn't honor
the
> > PageLength and PageWidth settings. For example, with the book that I
have
> > been testing with, when I translate it not using UTD mode it is 449
pages.
> > When I translate it using UTD mode it turns out to be 625 pages. I have
my
> > PageLength set to 26 and Pagewidth set to 42 as opposed to the 25 and 32
> > defaults.
> >
> >
> > Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
> >
> > Vic
> > E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
>
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
> Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
>
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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