If it is free to distribute then yes, at the moment I do not know. I assign
who ever wants the job to find that fact out for me.
David Ferrin
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan & Terrie Robbins" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files to DAISY files
David,
Will you eventually toss this up on your site?
Al
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of
David Ferrin
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files
to DAISY
files
You probably got the right file and I didn't is most likely
the difference.
I'll go check again Mr. Mike.
David Ferrin
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Barbara" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files
to DAISY files
Hi David & TJ;
First, TJ, thank you very much for this great information.
It will come
in
very handy . David, this is the version that I
downloaded.
OpenOfficePortable_3.2.0_English.paf.exe
I wonder what the differences might be.? Thanks again.
Take care.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Ferrin" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 1:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files
to DAISY files
Just to be clear this is the file I downloaded:
OpenOffice_Portable_2.4.1_zh_cn.paf.exe
I like to play around with some of this stuff from time to
time. I also
have
a daisy convertor around here that does MP3 files.
David Ferrin
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: "TJ McElroy gMail" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files
to DAISY files
Hello Francis,
Sorry it took so long to get an answer to your question.
I was also interested in converting text to Daisy and
here is a free and
quite easy to do just that.
It will require three downloads:
1. Open Office portable
2. Open XML to DAISY
3. Open XML to DAISY manual
I am using the portable version of Open Office because I
was unhappy how
the normal install version slowed down my computer.
The conversion still works with the portable version and
you have the
added bonus of being to save every thing on a USB drive.
You can read the manual for the step by step, but
in a nut shell here is what to do.
1. install Open Office
2. unzip the Open XML to DAISY plug in.
3. Start open office
4. navigate to the Tools > Extension Manager >
5 Add > Odt2DaisyAddOn.oxt ( located in the file that you
unzipped
earlier )
6. Restart Open Office
Once you restart Open Office there will be an export to
Daisy option
under the files menu.
When that option is selected, it will prompt for a file
name, then a
screen will appear telling you of the data that will be
stored in the
Daisy document.
you will have to choose ok from this screen.
Ok and cancel are located at the bottom of the screen
This screen does not speak for me, maybe it will for you.
The first Daisy book conversion might give a message that
the Daisy
Pipeline was not found. This message has only appeared
once for me. A
light version of the Daisy Pipeline is part of what you
added to Open
Office.
After the conversion you will have three folders under
the filename that
you choose to save the Daisy document as.
An audio book
a Daisy book
a z3986
I do not know what the z3986 is, if you find out let me
know.
I have given the download urls below:
OpenOffice.org Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable
software for USB
drives
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
Download Open XML to DAISY XML Translator from
SourceForge.net
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml-daisy/files/DAISYTra
nslator%20Word%20Add-Ins/Release%202.1.1/DaisyTranslator_Wor
dAddin_24March2009.zip/download
Download Open XML to DAISY XML Translator from
SourceForge.net ( manual )
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openxml-daisy/files/DAISY%20
Translator%20User%20Document/Release%202.1.1/Daisy_Translato
r_Instruction_Manual_24March2009.docx/download
HTH
TJ
----- Original Message -----
From: Francis E. Khan
To: Blind-Computing
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 12:00 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files
to DAISY files
I purchased the Bookport Plus player/recorder from the
American Printing
House for the Blind in March this year and downloaded
approximately 129
books from Gutenberg.org. What I want to do is to change
these books
from
plain text to a DAISY format so that I can listen to them
on the Bookport
Plus.
Does anybody on this list have any expertise in doing
this conversion
and
is it an expensive venture? I tried setting the pitch to
minus 5 and the
resulting playback sounded very gravelly like a famous
jazz trumpeter by
the name of Louis Armstrong also known as Sachmo. Any
help would be
greatly appreciated.
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