It seems that, unless you know what you're doing, you do it via the guided or advanced install option from the program CD. The other method - copying and pasting, etc. - *may* work on some computers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cher Bosch" <Cher.Bosch@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 3:16 PM Subject: Re: FS Reader Demo So, List- What to do? If you installed JFW6 from the FS site before your CD arrived, can you now get the files to show up in FS reader? Must you accomplish this by modifying your installation and selecting advanced? I did it the "copy from CD" way described on this list several weeks ago, but, as you have said, the Basic Training does not show up in the FS treeview with this method. Cher >>> florlync@xxxxxx 3/28/2005 8:06:28 AM >>> The Guided Install of JAWS (probably the better option) will give you the option of installing the FS Reader files/training materials or not. They are an extra 200 Mb. When that is done (for JAWS6.0), you can access them via the FS Reader - on the desktop if you want. They will be in the form of books and topics in the Tree View when the FS reader is opened. So, while the FS Reader Demo itself is installed, installing the training files is optional. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Robert Hebert" <roberthebert@xxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 9:21 AM Subject: Re: FS Reader Demo When you install jaws 6.0 on your machine you must use the advanced feature in order to get the Daisy files transferred onto your FS Reader directory. A guided install will put the training materials on your machine in MP-3 format and HTML format so you can read them as text or as mp-3 files using your favourite audio player but the FS Reader will not access them unless you use the advance install feature. With the FS Reader you will have all the Daisy navigational features. You will also have speech compression--increasing speech rate without changing the pitch plus the ability to pause, bookmark, alt-tab out of the program and practice any training features you are reviewing. There is some flexibility using winamp for strictly the MP-3 formats but this is limited and much more awkward than using the FS Daisy Reader. There is even speech compression in Winamp using the pacemaker plugin and while this will allow you to increase rate, the pitch is changed proportionately. The FS Reader is supposed to maintain voice pitch as speech rate increases but it does a very poor job in this regard and in my opinion is not really much better than the Winamp pacemaker plugin. Some Daisy readers such as Victor-soft have a very excellent speech compression feature that allows you to crank speech up to 4 or 500 words per minute without almost no noticeable change in pitch. ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Edward Marquette" <emarquette@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:59 PM Subject: FS Reader Demo Listers: I had the impression that FS had included the FS Reader Demo for two reasons: (1) to market it to JFW users in such a way that having tried it, they would buy the full version and (2) to put the tutorial materials, information primarily of use to new users, at their fingertips. It is, therefore, doubly ironic that FS Reader Demo is hard to find, without any reference in the JAWS "Help" system, and enabled so that readable books are not in at least a default directory. Well, I found FS Reader, but there were no readable books in the default folder. There was some material there, but, thank you very much, I would rather have it in RTF format. All of the Audio Menu options were unavailable. I thought I read somewhere that the files were on the program CD. So, within FS Reader Demo I tried to browse the CD. FS Reader Demo refused to admit that I have a CD ROM drive, even though that is obviously from where the program had been installed. Using Windows Explorer, I'm pretty sure I found the files. I copied them to program files\ freedom scientific\ Training \ ENU. FS Reader found nothing. Two questions: If FS really wanted to accomplish either of the objectives identified above and if the team had their collective heads screwed on correctly, wouldn't use of FS Reader be as easy as falling off a log? 2. Am I so stupid that I have found falling off a log a true challenge to my computer skills? 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