Okay, here I am rested and getting ready to exhaust myself in Open
Book again which I will start when I get through with the overnight
email, and this list certainly generates a lot of email to get
through. While I am waiting for you to repost that email again I have
come across another question. When I opened the Open Book software the
default voice sounded like a very sick man on his deathbed. The worst
part was that it is extremely slow, so the first settings I
investigated were the voice settings. It was fairly easy to get the
voices working to my satisfaction, but every time I close the software
and open it up again it has reverted to those default settings. I
notice that after adjusting the voice settings the way I want them
there are three buttons, okay, cancel and apply. Presumably I want to
click either okay or apply, but no matter which one I click when I
open the program again it has reverted to the dying centenarian. How
do I save my settings?
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Way to go, Roger! (big smile) You've taken a big first step into
scanning,
and you've learned the most important skill quickly. I'm not just being
silly. I mean it. Being willing to experiment with settings and features
is
good because the print in each book will be slightly different. You'll
find
some settings that work most of the time, and then you'll come across a
book
with unusual print that you'll have to adjust to. Scanning a few pages
from
the middle of a book is a really good way to see if you're using the
right
settings. So you're already doing what the pros do. (grin)
There are some things that will help you get Openbook working better. I
think I'm the one who wrote the post you were asking about. I'll retrieve
it
from my archives tomorrow. I'll use it as a shell and will customize it a
bit more for Openbook 6 so you can use it more easily. Tonight I'm on
some
heavy narcotics for Pneumonia, and you don't want me to give you
directions
on eating a candy bar, much less scanning a book. (smile)
Scanning will open up a whole new avenue for you. I think you have what
it
takes to do it and that you can overcome your shyness with technology.
You've mastered the internet, and I think that's harder than scanning.
Getting around new web pages takes more attention and spunk than scanning
pages once you know your software a bit better. Openbook's help system
hasn't been very good since Freedom Scientific bought the product. So if
it
confuses you, it's their poor help system, not you that's the problem.
We've
got several long-time Openbook users on this list, and I'll bet someone
has
an answer if you have a question.
Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker
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