Hi, Rose,
There's something in the files the BN doesn't like. The best way to get rid
of it would be to save the files as ASCII text. Your formats won't be
preserved but the text will still be there.
If you have the original files and if you have DBT 10.6 on your PC, you
could import the files into Duxbury, translate them into braille, save them
as .brf files and copy them into the BN to read. You could also emboss the
braille files using your PC.
If you aren't able to do that, you could e-mail the Word files to me and I
could translate them and e-mail the .brf files back to you. DBT doesn't
like rtf files. If you don't have the originals, you will need to convert
the rtf toWord. Because of all the file converting, I can't guarantee
accuracy in formatting, but you could read them.
Terri Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.
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From: "Rose Combs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 7:28 AM
Subject: [Braillenote] Word files translated to RTF not opening!
I have a strange problem and it seems to only be with four files. I have
four files sent to me from work that were Word 2002 documents. They had
some tables in them but, we converted the tables to text, saved the
documents in RTF format, then I placed them on my SD card which has about
300 MB free space. When I put the card in the m-Power, (7.2, build 47)
and
open the files I see "this is a text file" and then nothing, when I ask
where I am it says "page 1, line 1, column 1" and if I try to move through
the file, or go to end that status never changes. Other RTF files open
just
fine, newsletters which they have sent me have been converted in similar
manner and I can read any of those I have not translated into braille.
This is an important issue since they installed some new software for me
to
work with at work, and provided me almost no documentation on how to run
it,
the files I am most anxious to be able to access in braille concern the
keyboard commands for the software itself and the hotkeys the Jaws scripts
offer. I'd love to emboss these files on the Braille Blazer too, but
without a parallel port, that is not possible.
I can't think of any way to fix this unless I pull it up on the computer
screen and then braille the documents on the mPower, copy typing as it
were.
I have never had this type of problem before, and as I say all the other
text files or RTF files I have on that card open just fine.
This is an issue I need help with by tomorrow so I can be more prepared to
work on Monday than I was on Thursday. The people doing the training use
the mouse all the time, have no clue about keyboard shortcuts, and no way
to
explain anything without saying well click this, drag that, and it isn't
necessary.
Rose Combs
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