Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Georgina Joyce
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 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

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-11 Thread Georgina Joyce
Hello Cheryl, That's a lot of useful information. My Basic was purchased as a used machine and is a V1 blue. They hadn't dreamed of USB ports back in those days. . This is what I got when I attempted to build the standard distribution, which I'm sure came from the official site: Georginas-Mac

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I thought about replying within the message but decided that might not work so well for people who are trying to read fast. So I'll address each point here at the top. 1. My cable came with the Index basic and I didn't have to go find a prolific driver and cable. Maybe that is part of what the

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Tim Emmons
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 a

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Georgina Joyce
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

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Robert C
I have not heard that, did not know there was a delay, for I never heard a deadline. Ok being funny here. :) I would play with Louis but the embosser is not close enough to the Mac anyway to be connected. Quote of the nanosecond . . . Everything I know I learned in Corporate America. Robert

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
The embossers from Index work well. Your biggest problem, however, is not the actual embossing but the translation program. > -- > Cheryl > I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf. > I got crumpled wads of tear-stained paper thrown in the trash! > Then God gave me a new heart and life: > His

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Donna Goodin
Thanks, Chris, I may give them a call. Cheers, Donna On Jun 10, 2014, at 1:14 PM, 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries wrote: > I had posted this to the list a while ago: > > Was emailing with the folks at ViewPlus and they say they have a beta driver > for their embossers. They said it can embos

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Donna Goodin
thanks, Cheryl. I'm actually asking for someone who is fairly new to the Mac, and is currently in the process of selecting and embosser. I'll check this out. Cheers, Donna On Jun 10, 2014, at 1:11 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I use an Index printer and Index has an application and driver. I use

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Donna Goodin
Yeah, me, too. But it seems to keep getting delayed. *sigh* Cheers, Donna On Jun 10, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Robert C wrote: > I am waiting for Duxbury to port DBT over to Mac. And if that version uses > Microsoft Word, which supposedly will be accessible on the Mac, it cannot be > soon enough th

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Jessica D
Will a Braille blazer work on a Mac? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 10, 2014, at 2:14 PM, "'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries" > wrote: > > I had posted this to the list a while ago: > > Was emailing with the folks at ViewPlus and they say they have a beta driver > for their embossers. They sai

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries
I had posted this to the list a while ago: Was emailing with the folks at ViewPlus and they say they have a beta driver for their embossers. They said it can emboss simple text documents and works with any current generation ViewPlus embosser. I can pass along their contact info if anyone want

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I use an Index printer and Index has an application and driver. I use liblouis and liblouisutdml for translation but I also do a lot of editing along with that; there is also a louis program for the Mac but at least for the Spanish there were problems with it last time I tried it but the English

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Robert C
I am waiting for Duxbury to port DBT over to Mac. And if that version uses Microsoft Word, which supposedly will be accessible on the Mac, it cannot be soon enough tho I may need the time to save up the pennies for both. :) But if there are other alternatives that would work, I would try

Re: embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Daniel Chavez
That's the same question I want to know. I have a Romeo Pro 50 and want to emboss with it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsu

embossing from a Mac?

2014-06-10 Thread Donna Goodin
Hi all, Just wondering if there are any of you out there embossing braille from a Mac? If so, how are you doing it? Thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fro

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Blouch
No unexpectedly quitting for me. A Mac reboot every now and then isn't a bad idea. CB On 1/4/14 12:05 AM, Daniel Hawkins wrote: Hello Chris, Smacks forehead on desk. I am an idiot. I was trying to get OpenOffice and LibreOffice from a installation back when I got my Mac last March… I fail.

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-03 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Hello Chris, Smacks forehead on desk. I am an idiot. I was trying to get OpenOffice and LibreOffice from a installation back when I got my Mac last March… I fail. I spent almost all day doing research allay and never though I’d update the apps! sees. So that’s what I did, I updated both OpenOf

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Blouch
Have you tried the latest LibreOffice? It was not working with voiceover last I tried it but I just downloaded the new version today 4.1.4.2 and so far the word processor is working reasonably well. At least I wasn't getting the empty document I used to get. I'm on 10.8 so I couldn't verify if

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-03 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I use liblouis to translate from print to braille. It's also actually possible to write in braille on your computer if you know what symbols to use and I've been known to do this for short things and quick corrections. My printer is an Index and so I use the Index driver for actual printing. --

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-03 Thread Jessica D
Is it free? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Annie Skov Nielsen > wrote: > > Hi all. > > What about liblouis. > https://code.google.com/p/liblouis/ > I can not figure out how to install and run it on the mac, but maybe someone > can clarify that. It has been updated in june

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-03 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi all. What about liblouis. https://code.google.com/p/liblouis/ I can not figure out how to install and run it on the mac, but maybe someone can clarify that. It has been updated in june or july. Best regards Annie. Den 02 Jan 2014 kl. 22:12 skrev Daniel Hawkins : > I did research on that. Eve

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-02 Thread Daniel Hawkins
I did research on that. Even Apple said that LibreOffice, and OpenOffice is fully accessible . When I looked around, the last accessible format was on Lion, and Openoffice 3. The Wiki was looks like last updated in 2009. When I had my Mountain Lion, Openoffice and libreoffice worked, just can’t

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-02 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Ok, thanks for letting me know on that. I have no experience with Duxbury, so i will pass that along to my sister. Thanks! Daniel Hawkins - Posted from my Macbook Pro 2012 15in. Macbook Pro 2.3 Quad-core i7 4GB DDR3 500GB HDD Dual Boot: Windows 7 Ultimate Edition 64-bit On Jan 2, 2014, at 3:01

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-02 Thread Chris Blouch
According to the Apache web site, Apache Open office supposedly works with VO now, but last I tried it I could only access menu bar items and couldn't actually work with the text in the document. That's been a while so maybe they fixed it again. LibreOffice claims the same thing. Did you try th

Re: Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-02 Thread Eileen Misrahi
Hi Daniel, I'm not sure if this topic was recently discussed on this list or another. However, I did received a recent post on the Duxbury list serve stating that once 11.2 is released, creating and dedicating time for a Mac Duxbury version is high on the priority list. Who knows when it will

Embossing from a Mac..

2014-01-02 Thread Daniel Hawkins
Hello everyone, Once again, I have another question for here. Long story short my sister have been blind for years and I just recently lost my vision. However I jumped to a Mac right away, but my sister is transiting from Windows XP to Mac. One problem she had was learning Duxbury, there was no