QuickTac, free from Duxbury, will work with any version of Duxbury. It will
also work alone, without a braille translation program. It will produce low
resolution graphics on your Juliet Pro 60. The image you create must be
very simple to make sense tactually at a low resolution. QT will work with
your new Juliet 120 as well, but your Juliet 120 is capable of producing a
much more refined image.
Firebird is the graphics software developed for the newer Enabling
Technology embossers. As you mentioned, you have that. The Help section is
excellent- go through it to get familiar with the features. An easy way to
get what you want is to create a file in Word with the font and size of
letters you need, save as a .pdf, then convert to an image file format that
Firebird can import, using one of many free conversion programs. Some of
them are Inkscape, Gimp, XnView. Import into Firebird, adjust as necessary,
emboss.
Lucia
*Lucia Hasty, MA, TVIRocky Mountain Braille Associates Colorado Springs,
CO Braille and Tactile GraphicsLucia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<Lucia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>www.TactileGraphics.org
<http://www.TactileGraphics.org>*
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:15 AM Scherer, David <
David.Scherer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would suggest using a graphics program and emboss them as graphics.
You're Juliet 120 should have come with a graphics software package.
Either create or import the letters, edit as needed and emboss.
(Unfortunately, there are no graphics programs for the Juliet Pro 60. I
tried to find one for ours, and they are all discontinued and not
supported.)
David Scherer
Braille Transcriber
Washoe County School District
Reno, NV
*Literacy is for everyone.*
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*From:* duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on
behalf of Gatton, Tonia (OVR-LV) <Tonia.Gatton@xxxxxx>
*Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2018 9:31:48 AM
*To:* duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [duxuser] Re: How to emboss print letters
Thanks George. If this is the only free avenue for doing this, guess I’ll
have to wait until our agency upgrades to DBT 12.3.
T
*From:* duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On
Behalf Of *George Bell
*Sent:* Monday, October 22, 2018 12:07 PM
*To:* duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [duxuser] Re: How to emboss print letters
I suspect this might be best done using Duxbury’s QuickTac. Go to
https://www.duxburysystems.com/products.asp and then down to Freeware.
George
*From:* duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] *On Behalf Of *Gatton, Tonia (OVR-LV)
*Sent:* 22 October 2018 16:43
*To:* duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [duxuser] How to emboss print letters
Hey guys! I’m using DBT 12.1 and a Juliet 120. I also have a Juliet
Pro-60. I’d like some guidance on how to go about embossing print
letters. I’ve seen this done but never attempted it myself.
Your help is greatly appreciated,
Tonia
"*Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts.” **Winston Churchill*
Tonia Gatton
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kentucky career Center
KY Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Charles W. McDowell Center
8412 Westport Road
Louisville, KY 40242
(502) 429-4460 ext. 268
(502) 429-7101
tonia.gatton@xxxxxx
