[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: using liblouis to print documents on a braille printer

  • From: Simon Aittamaa <simon.aittamaa@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 06:56:36 +0100

Hi,

It might not be update in a while, but it should work. The nice thing
about it is that it supports transparent-mode, which bypasses the
translation table in the printer, i.e. you can get the exact
dot-pattern that you want.

Best,
Simon

On 8 March 2015 at 00:05, Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger@xxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,,
>
> thanks for the info.
> thought this extension hasn't been updated for a long time.
>
> greetings,
> simon
>
> Am 06.03.2015 um 07:16 schrieb Simon Aittamaa:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would recommend that you look into odt2braille for Open/Libre
>> Office. If you're still having trouble with incorrect printouts, let
>> me know!
>>
>> Perhaps a patch for outputting braille in "transparent-mode" for Index
>> printers might be of interest?
>>
>> Best,
>> Simon
>>
>> On 5 March 2015 at 22:13, Simon Eigeldinger <simon.eigeldinger@xxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> i have an index everest v3 and no software.
>>> i just have the windows drivers and the IBPrint software that can
>>> transfer
>>> text files and pef files to the printer.
>>> maybe i could use the lou_translate program of liblouis to convert normal
>>> text in various grade and 8 dot braille?
>>> the current braille tables in the printer seem not to be always giving
>>> good
>>> results or you have to convert the text in various ms dos file formats so
>>> the printer can understand it.
>>>
>>> greetings,
>>> simon
>>>
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>>
>> For a description of the software, to download it and links to
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>>
>
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