Vicky and others,
I essentially ran into the same problem with that file but I used
MS Office Word 2007 to save it as a filtered html document and
then used the Braille Note web browser to read it with no
problem. In fact, it was better than text because I was able to
navigate the document with links. For example, I was able to hit
the space bar to move down through the table of contents to find
a section I wanted to read and hitting return took me directly to
that chapter or section. For some reason I haven't figured out
yet, this same html file did not work on my Victor Reader Stream,
which puzzles me because it normally has no problem with html
files placed in the text folder. I also created an rtf version of
the original file and tested it on both the Stream and Braille
Note. . The Braille Note failed to read that rtf file. The Stream
did read the rtf version of the file with no problem. The Stream
also failed to even display the original doc file but it did read
the release notes docx file because I have the soft pack add on
feature enabled on my Stream.
Not sure what is going on here but think Humanware needs to spend
some more time on the document reader to get full access to all
MS document files, up to and including docx formatted files.
Richard Ehrler
----- Original Message -----
From: Vicky Collins <[email protected]
To: [email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 21 May 2011 09:39:12 -0400
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Apex not able to read a Microsoft file
I also downloaded the file from the HIMS web site, and I got the
same results as Peter, meaning the document would open but would
be blank. I used my Apex, as both my Sense products are in for
repair. Also, as with Peter, I couldn't get a word count or use
the spell checker; for, although both functions worked on the
Apex, they would report zero words.
When I tried to save the document on my PC as a Word file, since
it opened as an Office 97 2003 document, saving it just saved the
same document with the same date. Thus, it still wouldn't read
on the Apex. Nor, for that matter, would saving it as a RTF
file. But, saving it as a TXT file, then did allow the document
to be read. And, for that matter, typing a letter at the top of
the document so as to change it just a tad, and then saving it as
a DOC or RTF document, didn't allow it to be read, either--well,
unless you count the one time it opened and showed a bunch of
numbers and strange characters and the like after being saved as
a RTF file.
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