Thank you Greg for posting that. I didn't want to answer w/o having
the url handy, and I'd lost the original message where it was
listed. Thanks for jumping in with it there.
On Feb 26, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Greg Kearney wrote:
I ported TurboBraille and NFBtrans to the MacOSX. They can be
downloaded at http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/ there is also a free
braille font as well as other utilities for braille production.
Just about any braille embosser with a serial port should be able to
emboss from the Mac. I have a set of AppleScripts that I have
integrated with TextEdit which permit me to translate and emboss from
with in TextEdit itself.
The fundamental process is to get a USB to Serial device on your Mac.
I suggest the Keyspan unit. You then will need to know the device name
of the USB to Serial device it is in the /dev directory. You then edit
the apple script to send the text of the translation to the embosser.
You could do it like this from the command line:
cat /path/to/braille_file.txt > /dev/name_of_serial_device
Assuming you have your embosser set up to print for the serial port
your good to go. The website above has all the information you need to
set up an Enabling Technologies embosser. That the only one I have. If
manufactures send me others I will produce instructions for them as
well.
By the way I have started porting over TurboBraille to Xcode and
should be able to offer a fat binary (PowerPC/Intel) version soon.
Greg Kearney
