Hello to all of you,
My name is Mike Busboom, and I will soon be acquiring a MacBook, running Leopard. This will be my first foray into the Mac world, and I have a lot of questions. I've been a PC user since forever, and I am hopeful that a knowledge of computers in general will make the learning curve less steep. Although I am not yet a Mac user, I'd like to ask a few initial questions: 1. I will take possession of my MacBook in late February or early March when I visit my parents in the United States. Since I live in Vienna, Austria, I use German a lot. Does the MacBook come with foreign language TTS engines? If not, where can I purchase them? 2. I am a translator and also edit a lot of materials written in English. Most of my clients want me to edit their materials in MS Word. They depend on my annotations as well, so the ability to annotate texts and have it work seamlessly with speech is crucial. This is a relatively straightforward process in MS Word running under Windows with Window-Eyes. I have been told that MS Word on the Mac is not yet supported in Voice Over. Furthermore, I have been told that what I want to accomplish could be done using Open Office. Is this true, to your knowledge? If it isn't, I plan to buy Fusion anyway and continue to use MS Office running under Windows, though I would like to use programs for the Mac whenever possible. 3. Is it possible to import my Firefox bookmarks into an Internet browser running on the Mac? 4. At present, I am using the K1000 as my OCR package. Is there a comparable, accessible OCR software package for the Mac? Well, this should cover it for now. I apologize if I have asked too many questions, but perhaps I will be able to reciprocate and give others assistance, once I have gained enough experience with my own MacBook. Kindest regards to all, Mike
