[duxhelp] printing or embossing to a file!!
- From: "Jack Maartman" <jmaartman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxhelp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:59:16 -0700
Hi all:
I am wondering if anyone has been using this feature. It certainly has an
intrinsic value, but the process is inordinately complex, and I am wondering if
this is something we can address by the time 10.5 hits the shelves.
I couldn't have achieved it without some expert help. The current procedure
would appear to be as follows.
Owning neither printer nor embosser, I had to configure some windows printer or
other, directing it to print to file, I think I found a generic one.
I then had to set up an embosser and give it a name. This also turns out to be
the name of the file I wish to print to. With this embosser highlighted I then
send text to it in the usual way. Being somewhat of a megalomaniac, I sent a
very large file to the print-to-file, this took a while, and of course, there
was no prompt for job completion. The other problem is the obvious. The file
bares the name of the default configuration, and I would have to rename it. I
was hoping to find a dialogue somewhere that would prompt me for a filename,
and perhaps some completion message. The old dos command-line utilities,
including Duxbury's transf or tranxf give one such a facility, and allow one to
know how many pages are printed. Another issue, is whether such a file could
include embosser specific codes. Ultimately it might be worthwhile down the
road to have something, that in a personal communication George has called PBF,
a portable braille format which would mean that a file could be generated with
enough information in it to emboss too no matter what embosser. But I jump
ahead of myself, here. As I want my file to end with <crs., without <lfs> and
no form feeds, at the moment, it is expedient to take a .brf file, and do these
deletions in a standard text editor. At the moment, for me this means a shell
out to dos, with an external dos screen reader.
Any feedback will be valuable, and I won't weep to much if it doesn't make it
into the next release.
Cheers
Jack
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