Hi Jean,
The best way to save your work is to simply exit your document especially
if you are using a given file for your own information and work. You would
use the Spacebar with S if you wish to save your work as another file type
or you would export your document to another file type. Quite often I'll
save a Microsoft Word file to a text document by using the S with
spacebar. I then will translate that document into a braille file which
I'll emboss. When using the S chord, one can save the original and work
with the new document which comes in handy. I'm trying to emphasize that
you don't use the S with spacebar to save a document unless you wish to
save it as another document type. Or, you can go to the file manager to
export the document to another file type. There's more than one way to do
the same thing.
I have a computer person coming by today with any number of things, one of
which will be an SD card and the other hopefully a USB to parallel
converter cable. We'll see what happens. I'll report back to the list.
Do take care!
Jim Aldrich
At 07:56 AM 11/18/2005 , you wrote:
So, Jim. Sorry you lost your work with the freeze. I can relate as that
just happened to me.
No one from HumanWare or on the list attempted to answer my question on
that subject, though. Although I had been saving my work often with the
S-cord command, I lost everything when I had to use the simple reset
button to get out of the frozen state. The only save that was recognized
was the much earlier point where I had exited the KeyWord application with
E-cord. So, why bother with periodic S-cord saves if they don't really
save the work in the event of a system lock-up?
Jean
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
Rhonda, Kathy and list,
I'm facing this same situation only as it applies to embossing
documents. I may need to read that section.
I was editing a newsletter for embossing. While working on it last
night, the "freeze bug" decided to visit me. Perhaps it had to find a
new place since a number of you have run the patch. I was stuck in the
page column and line information and couldn't get out no matter what I
tried to do. My only option was to hit the reset button. Needless to
say, I lost two hours of work. Luckily, most of my efforts dealt with
formatting. I would really have been mad had I written the document from
scratch. I recovered much of my work last night and finished everything
up tonight. I will probably transfer the document over to my BN classic
which has the parallel port and I'll be able to emboss from there I
hope! What a pain! I hope to have the necessary interface by the time I
do this newsletter again.
Keep us posted!
Jim Aldrich
At 05:40 PM 11/17/2005 , you wrote:
Kathy, first of all, in looking at the manual, it says that this
discussion is outside the scope of the user guide, for what that's
worth. USB is now the universal standard for connecting to printers.
Plug the USB printer into one of your BrailleNote BT USB host ports, and
select USB as your printer port.
Though the BrailleNote mPower no longer has a parallel port, it is
possible to use a printer or embosser that only has a parallel
connecter. Using an Inside Out Networks -- Edgeport/421 multi-interface
converter, you can print to a parallel printer or embosser by plugging
in the USB cable of the converter to the BN BT, and the parallel cable
of the printer into the converter hub.
This requires a special driver to work on the BN. No software is
required to be downloaded for this. There is more information on this
in section 6.8.6. Good luck.
----- Original Message -----
From: kathy davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:05:35 -0700
Subject: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
Hi, List and Humanware staff,
What printers have you mPower users used successfully with your
mPower? If they were not a USB printer, have you had success with the
USB to parallel converter cables?
I will need such a cable to use with my Epson printer, and
wondered if they're workable.
I could connect the mPower to the Canon printer my husband uses,
via the USB port, but unfortunately it was not supported by the mPower
even in the standard setting, hence the need to try my Epson. We have a
third printer but it's also a Canon.
Thanks for your help.
Kathy (still enjoying using my mPower)
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