Re: Bookshare books and Olearia

2012-10-13 Thread Alex Hall
You download the daisy format, which comes as a zip or bks2 file. Open that and the mac will unzip it automatically. Now open Olearia, hit cmd-o, and go to the folder into which the mac unzipped the daisy files. Select either of the two the app presents and you should be all set. I don't think i

Re: Bookshare books and Olearia

2012-10-13 Thread Becky Knaub
Alex, I get the following message. There was a problem loading an audio file. Please check the book format for problems. Olearia will now reset as this book will not play I am not sure how you unzip the books. I tried to open them in Olearia 2 different ways. the first was to open them once I wa

Re: Bookshare books and Olearia

2012-10-13 Thread Alex Hall
It defaults to the system voice, but you can choose another in preferences. The new voice, however, seems to need a new book before it will take effect and may not switch at all. It seems to save your place exactly until you restart or close the app; once you do this, you are taken to the top of

Re: Bookshare books and Olearia

2012-10-13 Thread Maria Chapman
Hi. this is interesting I didn't think it was possible to read book share books in oleria. does olearia use it's own voice to read? or does it use the system voice? I guess saving your place is the same when reading book share books with safari? God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user

Re: Bookshare books and Olearia

2012-10-12 Thread Alex Hall
I was able to open a book successfully. Granted, it does a poor job of saving my place, navigation is buggy, and the speech rate won't move past a frustratingly slow setting, but it does work. What happens when you open the book? How are you trying to go about this? I had to manually unzip the b

Bookshare books and Olearia

2012-10-12 Thread Becky Knaub
Hi all, I downloaded Olearia and tried playing both versions of bookshare daisy books but it wouldn't play them. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas. I used to read them when they were in XML format but now even that won't work. If anyone has any ideas I would be very appreciative. Thank you