Michael Zacherle, le Sat 28 Oct 2006 19:46:43 +0200, a écrit : > > lp foo.brf > > > > or even > > > > lp foo.txt > > but what do we do with braille embossers that do more than just text? We do > have a Tiger (www.viewplus.com), and this printer does graphics too (with 8 > dot levels).
Ow, I didn't know such great products exist! I guess in such case the cups filter should be able to print braille dots for submitted text files, and graphics for submitted graphical files. > It has the ability to detect when special tiger fonts are used > under Windows and then translates the font to braille. > > If you use, say, Arial, then it prints the graphical representations > of the font, not the braille code. So you mean that if you submit a text document that has both text and dots, it will ink-print text, and emboss dots? With unicode text, this is quite easy to do in CUPS (dot patterns are characters U+28xy). The CUPS driver would just need an option for choosing whether to translate text into dots. Now, mixing real graphical stuff along braille dots has yet to be defined. The problem is that graphical formats like pdf/ps/whatever don't necessarily know what a braille dot pattern is, so you may just not be able to express that. I'll check whether at least pdf/ps files can express unicode glyphs, so that we may just do like unicode text. Samuel _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
