Hi Jim
Well, then the idea of calling it a save option, S-cord, is totally
misleading. Yes, you can change file types, etc., but if you just press
enter to accept the current status, I still don't understand why it
isn't a true save. Yes, I now exit the application as a periodic save,
but that seems a bit counter productive to me.
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
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"
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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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