Hello Tim,

I don't know that machine. What do Enabling Technologies say? What have you 
tried?

Gena
On 10 Jun 2014, at 22:42, Tim Emmons <temmo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gena, I have a Romeo Pro 50 a single sided braille printer from Enabling 
> technologies. Can I get that to emboss on the mac side? I've not had luck 
> with it yet but was just curious. Let me know what might work. This is for my 
> office here at work, we're trying to get our braille printer back up and 
> going and we've been down with it for a few months since they switched us 
> here and I can't seem to get the embosser to work. Thanks. 
> On Jun 10, 2014, at 4:08 PM, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have just got an Index Basic going on my Mac.
>> 
>> Firstly I needed a USB to serial lead. I understand that there are 2 
>> chipsets supported. I was lucky that one that I had for some time was a 
>> supported one. I had to find a Prolific driver and install it. It wasn't 
>> difficult. It generates a /dev/cu.usbserial device which you send the 
>> braille for embossing.
>> 
>> Not sure if I needed the Index driver too but I installed it.
>> 
>> I had used nfbtrans on a linux command line so grabbed that. However, it was 
>> not going to work on the Mac. There is a Mac patch copy floating about which 
>> I eventually found. This works OK but is limited.
>> 
>> Then there is Louis a GUI accessible program. This works too. However, only 
>> with text files. RTF and HTML etc files just seem to crash and don't work 
>> for me. It does enable the translation of different braille tables.
>> 
>> So check out nfbtrans if you don't mind working from the command line or 
>> Louis if you want a GUI interface.
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
>> Gena
>> 
>> On 10 Jun 2014, at 18:31, Daniel Chavez <topdog2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> That's the same question I want to know. I have a Romeo Pro 50 and want to 
>>> emboss with it.
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