Here are a few embosser questions. I figured it's best to ask them at once instead of creating separate topics. I have a Macbook running Snow Leopard, an though I rarely use it, feel free to consider it, along with DOS and Windows XP, when answering these. The only thing I don't know is if it will work with my embosser via a usb to serial connection. All the other machines have native serial ports.
I'd like to make a hard copy of a Quickbasic, a DOS and a batch file tutorial, all of which will use symbols that are best represented in computer braille. But I've been a braille reader since I was about six-years-old, so naturally, I want the text portions to be in Grade II. Is there a way that I can translate the text as Grade II and leave the symbols etc. in computer braile? If so, which translation software is best for this and on which operating system does it run? I also have a list of vocabulary words that are in Greek and English. These are already in my computer so don't need to be scanned. But how do I get the software to switch between the two when needed for a project like this?? I'm using a Braille Blazer and would like to know how to insert the paper so that it doesn't waste a page each time I load a fresh stack. I have the manual, which is very descriptive, but I don't quite understand how this works. I think I need to insert it in reverse, so that instead of coming out of the back of the machine, it comes out of the front, but I'm not sure. Finally, I'm interested in embossing tactile graphics. I used to think that I could just take a picture, load it into the software and then emboss it. But I've read up on tactile images and it appears that the brain processes things differently haptically as opposed to visually. So the picture needs to be altered somehow. Which software is the easiest for working with graphics from the blind point of view and again, for what system? How does the image need to be changed? Thanks, Eleni For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
