Hi,
This will be of use to people with this scanner.
Linda Parent
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Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:49 AM
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Subject: [New-products] Patch 1 for Version 10
The following is from Kurzweil Educational Systems.
Hello everyone.
We have just posted the first patch for version 10. It contains one useful
enhancement, and thirteen bug fixes. Note that it is only useful if you
have
version 10 on your system - if you are at an earlier release, you should
not
download or install this patch.
If you have version 10, use the Online->Update mechanism in that product,
select the version 10.01 patch and press enter. Once you are notified that
the patch has been downloaded, exit from the Kurzweil 1000, and it will be
automatically installed. After the installation, you will have release
notes
in your "general" folder in a file called "Patch 10-01.txt". The patch
executable itself will be in the folder "Online\Completed Patches". Its
name, should you need it again, is "k1000patch1001.exe".
If you have security procedures at your site that prevent use of the
Online
Update mechanism, you can also download the patch from our web site. A
direct URL for the appropriate spot in that site is
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/downloads_k1000_updates_ver10.asp
The release notes follow.
Changes introduced by Patch 10.01 into the Kurzweil 1000.
October 12th, 2005.
This is the first patch for version 10 of the Kurzweil 1000. It should, of
course, only be installed on a system that contains version 10.
Administrative privileges will be required, and Kurzweil 1000 should not
be
running when this patch is run.
Enhancements in Patch 10.01
(1) A New Online Reference.
You can now look up entries in Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary.
This is available through the "Use an Encyclopedia" menu item under the
Online menus.
Bug Fixes in Patch 10.01
The following problems have been addressed in this release:
(1) Updating a file in a ZIP folder.
If you opened a KES or DAISY file in a ZIP folder, it would not be updated
when you later saved or closed the file.
(2) UNC Paths.
UNC Paths, if entered through the traditional K1000 file dialogs, were
treated as though they were improperly formatted, resulting in an error
message.
(3) End of Paragraph Pauses in Audio Files.
When audio files were created, no pauses were introduced at the ends of
paragraphs that did not end with sentence punctuation, even if the setting
that controls this was enabled.
(4) Opening RTF or HTML files with large pictures.
The Kurzweil 1000 often failed to open RTF or HTML documents if they
contained large pictures.
(5) Two Page Mode and Blank Pages.
When recognizing two pages at once, if one page was blank it was
frequently
ignored - that is, a blank page was not created in the document, even if
blank pages were to be kept.
(6) Support For SAPI 4 RealSpeak Voices.
Kurzweil 1000 version 10 tried to drive SAPI 4 RealSpeak voices at a
higher
frequency than they could support. They sounded a bit like the voices from
Alvin and the Chipmunks.
(7) ScanSoft and PDF Files.
Some PDF files that cannot be directly opened by ScanSoft's OCR Engines
can
be recognized through the virtual printer, but Kurzweil 1000 was not
automatically noting the open failure and redirecting the file through
that
printer.
(8) Display of Text Messages.
Short spoken messages should be displayed in a text box near the bottom of
the Kurzweil 1000 window. They weren't.
(9) Speaking of Punctuation.
When the punctuation level was none, certain common clusters of
punctuation
characters would nonetheless be spoken. One example is when a sentence
ended
with a word, then a closing parenthesis, and then a period. With IBM TTS,
the period would be spoken.
(10) Sending a KES file to a Book Port or Book Courier.
Attempts to transfer KES files to either a Book Port or Book Courier
through
the File->Send To mechanism were failing.
(11) Sending a File to a Device.
Use of File->Send To would often leave files in the temporary folder,
causing the Kurzweil 1000 to erroneously suggest that files needed to be
restored the next time the product was run.
(12) Audio File Names.
When audio files are created as a part of a DAISY document, their file
names
are simply a numeric sequence. This is correct, but we didn't mean to also
use only a numeric sequence for standard MP3 or Wave audio files. We've
gone
back to the convention of appending a sequence number to a name that is
based on the original document name.
(13) Correction Files and Exclamation Points.
The standard correction file that ships with K1000 will convert a
stand-alone exclamation point to a capital "I". That is reasonable, but
the
definition of "stand-alone" was problematic. If a word ending with an
exclamation point was corrected, the exclamation point itself would also
be
corrected. This effected the replace function in Ranked Spelling as well
as
the corrections facility.
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