Hi Terri and list,
I got mine yesterday as well. I'm still trying to figure out how to hook
it up and will work on it when time permits. It is a nice looking ruggid
device. Paying $72 or so is much better than $160 or $250.
Start the embossing process in the usual way. The BN will prompt you for
the file you wish to emboss. Once that is selected and you press enter,
the BN will say embosser ready? Type N for No instead of Y for yes. You
will be presented with some new prompts. First page to emboss, last page
to emboss to end of document? You can enter which specific page or pages
you wish to have embossed. Once entered, you will get the Embosser Ready
prompt? Type Y for Yes and you will get your specified pages embossed. If
you have individual pages to be embossed, as pages 7 and 8, pages 15 and
16, you will need to emboss these two at a time when using an interpoint
embosser or one at a time for a single page embosser. You could paste a
paragraph in the clipboard and save that to a file and have your embosser
emboss that new file. It would not be a perfect answer but it could be
done. Usually if the embossing stops early, or paper jams, I simply emboss
the pages which didn't emboss at the first.
My embosser never started right away even when I was using a parallel
cable. I'd always need to clear the buffer of the embosser again and start
the process once again. I'd usually emboss the second time around so the
problem may be how the M-power communicates with many embossers, I really
don't know for certain. I'll have more to say once I get my infrared
adapter going.
Glad to hear it is working!
Jim Aldrich
At 08:16 PM 01/13/2006 , you wrote:
Dear List,
I'm happy to report the infrared to parallel converter I bought from
Enabling technologies arrived yesterday. I have spent most of the afternoon
trying it out. I'm not the brightest person when it comes to using things
like this, so it took me a while to get it connected.
It works very well with my Index Everest-D and my Mpower. I would like to
say "beautifully", but the MP is having a hard time recognizing it. I have
to put the infrared pointer snugly against the port. The infrared port on
the MP is much smaller than the one on the classic.
I have also received some error messages. The full contents of the error
message doesn't appear on the braille display. It only appears in speech.
The braille will show that the MP sees the infrared device. I wonder if
there's a bug somewhere. The work-around I have been using is to press the
escape key, press e for emboss and e to emboss a document and even go
through one or two more steps until the MP kicks in, says embossing is
complete and my document is finally embossed. Once you know the document is
embossing, you don't need to go through any more steps.
There are some suggestions I have for HumanWare to do which would improve
embossing documents:
1. I would like to be able to emboss a document while it is still open. I
would like to be able to emboss a paragraph or a block of text. This
feature could be added to the block menu.
2. I would like to be able to emboss the current page of a document.
3. I would like to be able to emboss specific pages of a document, such as
page 1, 4, 10, 20, 50, etc while the document is open. Sometimes only a few
pages in a document need to be embossed over again and these pages may not
be in sequence.
All in all, I like the infrared to parallel converter and it's worth every
penny I spent on it.
Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA. Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
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