Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-24 Thread Travis Siegel
It depends on the software used to produce the daisy book, but in general, as long as the book isn't encrypted, you can play the mp3 files in any mp3 player. Of course, you loose the functionality of the daisy format in this case, but if you're just looking to get at the content, without r

Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-23 Thread Andy Collins
> > .. > > -Original Message- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Andy Collins > Sent: 23 May 2014 14:40 > To: OS X & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader > > Dav

RE: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-23 Thread David Griffith
-access.net] On Behalf Of Andy Collins Sent: 23 May 2014 14:40 To: OS X & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader David - Firstly, thanks for making your version of Olearia available to me. Secondly, from what you also said, I have another question: Do all DAISY titles as well as ha

Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-23 Thread Andy Collins
David - Firstly, thanks for making your version of Olearia available to me. Secondly, from what you also said, I have another question: Do all DAISY titles as well as having smil files, come with an equivalent mp3 file? My situation is that I will need to access some course material in DAISY

RE: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-23 Thread David Griffith
will provide a basic level navigation . David Griffith -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: 22 May 2014 19:47 To: 'OS X & iOS Accessibility' Subject: RE: Olearia Daisy Book Re

Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread Andy Collins
iginal dmg I am afraid.. > > David Griffith > -Original Message- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Andy Collins > Sent: 22 May 2014 19:20 > To: OS X & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: Olearia Daisy

RE: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread David Griffith
& iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader Hi Esther - Very helpful, thank you, I was clearly downloading from the wrong place, but it was the only hit Google was finding for me. Anyway, got the beta now, and it works, or after a fashion. I am finding that a book will play contin

Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread Andy Collins
download Olearia using the public beta link from Curtin > University: > http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/ > This comes as a zip file. The code,google.com location lets you get the > source code if you want to compile it from scratch for yourself. > > HTH. Cheers, >

RE: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread Eleanor Martha Burke
: Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader Hi Andy, I think you can also download Olearia using the public beta link from Curtin University: http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/ This comes as a zip file. The code,google.com location lets you get the source code if you want to compile it from scratch for your

Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread Esther
Hi Andy, I think you can also download Olearia using the public beta link from Curtin University: http://www.cucat.org/projects/olearia/ This comes as a zip file. The code,google.com location lets you get the source code if you want to compile it from scratch for yourself. HTH. Cheers

Re: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread Andy Collins
Hi David and all - David, I downloaded Olearia again just now, from code.google.com; even though it said it was a zipped download, when I looked for Olearia in my downloads folder, it was just there as an application, so I pasted it in to my applications folder, and opened it. I firstly got

RE: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread David Griffith
There are apparently 3 options. Olearia which is the one recently discussed. I have found this fine for basic Daisy functionality but Andy has struggle to install. Emerson which I have never used. Read Here, which unlike the first 2 free options is a commercial product. This is quite expensive

RE: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread Eleanor Martha Burke
What is the best DAISY Book reader for RNIB DAISY books which works on the Mac? -Original Message- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: 22 May 2014 12:11 To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility Subject: Olearia D

RE: Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread Eleanor Martha Burke
ject: Olearia Daisy Book Reader I know that somebody I think Andrew, has had problems installing the free Olearia Daisy Book Reader. I rarely use this on the Mac as I have various physical Daisy Readers but I tested Olearia this morning on my iMac running the latest version of Mavericks and as

Olearia Daisy Book Reader

2014-05-22 Thread David Griffith
I know that somebody I think Andrew, has had problems installing the free Olearia Daisy Book Reader. I rarely use this on the Mac as I have various physical Daisy Readers but I tested Olearia this morning on my iMac running the latest version of Mavericks and as far as I could tell it is

Re: olearia

2012-07-29 Thread josh gregory
On 7/29/12, Sarah Alawami wrote: >>> I don't think you can. You have to register the thing for bard and in >>> this >>> case i don't think your computer app is. In fact I don't think you can >>> read >>> bard books on any computer devi

Re: olearia

2012-07-29 Thread Sarah Alawami
se i don't think your computer app is. In fact I don't think you can read >> bard books on any computer device. >> >> Take care. >> On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:12 AM, josh gregory wrote: >> >>> Hi; >>> >>> I've gotten olearia, look

Re: olearia

2012-07-29 Thread josh gregory
x27;t think you can read > bard books on any computer device. > > Take care. > On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:12 AM, josh gregory wrote: > >> Hi; >> >> I've gotten olearia, looks pretty accessible. I've downloaded a book >> from bard, (braille and audio r

Re: olearia

2012-07-29 Thread Sarah Alawami
I don't think you can. You have to register the thing for bard and in this case i don't think your computer app is. In fact I don't think you can read bard books on any computer device. Take care. On Jul 29, 2012, at 3:12 AM, josh gregory wrote: > Hi; > > I've

Re: Olearia Daisy Reader

2012-02-13 Thread David Griffith
Well it seems t work in my version. I use numpad commander so if I navigate to the fast forward button and press numpad 5 it jumps forward. If i hold numpad 5 down on the forward button you get the monkey chatter of the book being read out at rapid speed as you move through it. If you are not u

Olearia Daisy Reader

2012-02-13 Thread Christo Thiardt
Hello I have been successful in downloading the above. I can skip forward and back within the text however, the fast forward/backward do not seem to work. Can anyone help with details of utilising this program to its fullest capability? Many thanks in advance Christo <--- Mac Access At Mac