[bookport] Re: braille filter and send to bp

  • From: "Shawn Thiel" <shawn.thiel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:03:32 -0500

Thanks pam,
I understand using the program you own, but some improvements would be wonderful, at least to ez braille for use with bp transfer. Having an option to remove page numbers would be nice, especially in books where print numbers are kept. Also, better treatment of urls in computer braille that do not begin with www for example a url that might look like this. 
find.pcworld.com/42637
This is a made up url, but pc world has them like this a lot, and the numbers don't get properly translated. Maybe allow users to correct back translation errors ourselves would solve issues too. 
Things to think about maybe.
As for the issue with send to bookport, I have no idea either. It would be nice if it could be fixed. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling bp transfer, and even removing the tts mp3 player device from device manager and starting over that way, all with no resolution of getting send to bookport in the menu. If larry is stumped, then its no go I guess.
----- Original Message ----- From: "PAMELA RADER" <PRADER@xxxxxxx> 
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 1:48 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: braille filter and send to bp



Shawn:

We are using a program called EZBraille that we own to do the
translation. We don't have any plans to change translators anytime soon.
As for Book Port not showing up as an option, I have no idea what would
cause that or that it even has anything to do with us.  If I had to
hazard a guess, perhaps it is being blocked by a fire wall, but I don't
know.  I asked our programmer and he doesn't know either.
Congratulations!  You've stumped him, which is pretty difficult to do.
Sorry, I don't have a prize to award you.



Pamela Rader, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
American Printing House For The Blind
1839 Frankfort Ave.
Louisville, KY  40206

PHONE:  1-800-223-1839, Ext. 307



shawn.thiel@xxxxxxxxx 12/12/06 11:06AM >>>

Hi,
What Braille reverse translator is used to put brf files on the
bookport? I think nfb trans might be a good choice as it is public
domain, and it removes page numbers when reverse translating. This at
least used to be the case. Kurzweil uses it in their product, so it
could probably work here.


   On a different topic, I have been using bp transfer for several
days now, and find that the send to bookport option from windows
explorer is not visible, but the shortcut is in the sendto folder. I do
not have this problem on my laptop, which has much more streamlined
context menus. What could be causing this problem?
Any opinions thoughts or ideas, particularly from APH staff would be
appreciated.
Shawn

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