[access-uk] Re: Braille transcription programmesRe: Re: Braille transcription programme
- From: Christopher Maule-Oatway <c.maule@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:55:32 +0100
Hello,
A good, free, translation program is nfbtrans,
which comes from the American National Federation
of the Blind. It is a MS-DOS program, but runs
well in Windows XP. A Windows front-end has been
written for it. It is easy to use, and putting
control commands into a document or making
changes in the default tables gives it a lot of flexibility.
The disadvantage of this program is that it only
translates/embosses from a text file, so Word
documents or RTF files have to be converted.
Put nfbtrans in your favourite search engine to find out what you need to know.
I use this program on Windows XP home, and my
braille embosser is an Index Basic, which is
coming up to its eighteenth birthday!
I have tried Winbraille with some success and
especially like the six-key entry feature and the
foreign language braille tables. However, I have
problems with line lengths and margins, probably
because my embosser is old, and the line of code
that Winbraille prints out at the top of each document is most annoying!
Cheers,
Christopher
At 14:17 25/05/2007 +0100, you wrote:
Hello Gena
I have Home XP, JAWS and run an Index embosser.
I have used WinBraille in the past but this has
developed a bug which I have not been able to
resolve. I then reverted to Cypher but this does
not provide sufficient flexibility in presentation.
Duxbury and WinTrans have been suggested but at
£385 and over £800, this is too much. I did see
that WinTrans has a free demo version but one of
the limitations is 250 odd text entries.
I don't mind paying a reasonable amount to
obtain an effective programme but these figures are too high.
Peter
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