[bksvol-discuss] Re: converting brf documents
- From: "Monica Svopa" <svopa@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:03:38 -0500
Sarah, thanks. It doesn't have to be in RTF necessarily. Txt would be fine
as well.
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From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: converting brf documents
> I don't remember whether Kurzweil 5 opened BRF files or not. If it can
you
> would just open it like you would any other file. Look at the result in
> Kurzweil to see if it was translated or not. If it was you can just
choose
> save as from the file menu and select RTF in the list of file types
> presented. I don't think DOC is an option.
>
> Duxbury can certainly save a file as a TXT and I don't know any
> disadvantage to that format for reading something that once was a braille
> file. If you desperately want it to be an RTF for some reason why not
copy
> the translated file from Duxbury in to Word and save it from there. I
used
> to have Duxbury, but I didn't use it enough to remember how to do very
much
> with it, so that is why I am not giving specific commands.
>
> I would assume you are not trying to fix up a book you have downloaded
from
> bookshare for resubmission, because working from the BRF copy is not
really
> acceptable. All paging will be a mess and you will have gobs of
> translation errors.
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> Assistive Technology Trainer
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Monica Svopa" <svopa@xxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 12:22 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] converting brf documents
>
>
> Hello list. I wanted to ask a question. I have K1000 version 5.0. Yes,
I
> know it's old. However, money hasn't allowed me to be able to purchase a
> newer version. After Christmas this year I will purchase the latest one.
> My question is about converting BRF documents to MS Word. How can I do
> this? I have an old version of Duxbury for Windows. I took a book which
I
> recently downloaded as a brf and I was able to open it in Duxbury.
> However, I'm not able to resave it as an MS Word file. I wanted to save
it
> as an RTF but was unsuccessful either. Please advise. I'd appreciate it.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Monica
>
>
>
>
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