Alex.
It was perhaps poor humour! Many were bagging 8 so I was looking
forward to 9!!!
Peter.
----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Hall <[email protected]
To: blake <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected],[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:43:45 -0500
Subject: re: [Braillenote] KS 9??!!
I think you meant ks8. No one knows about ks9; 8 has not even
been released yet.
Have a great day,
Alex
----- Original Message -----
From: blake <[email protected]
To: peter greco <[email protected]>,
[email protected],[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:09:36 +1300
Subject: re: [Braillenote] KS 9??!!
March.
----- Original Message -----
From: peter greco <[email protected]
To: Grant Hardy <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:33:34 +1030
Subject: [Braillenote] KS 9??!!
When is KS 9 coming out??!!
Peter.
----- Original Message -----
From: Grant Hardy <[email protected]
To: BrailleNote mailing list <[email protected]
Date sent: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:38:14 -0800
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Press Release: KeySoft 8.0
Indeed, Kevin. I determinedly supported the BrailleNote for
quite
some time, especially after hearing from HumanWare that they were
"quite advanced" in a Microsoft Word engine. Unfortunately,
though,
nothing's being released along those lines, and as you point out,
whether RTF, DOC, DOCX or PDF, the Omni has you covered, along
with
PowerPoint and a reader mode for E-Reader applications. You
mention
converting files to RTF. Unfortunately, the BrailleNote doesn't
seem
to like RTF files generated by Microsoft Word, so those just open
as
blank files. These just aren't reasonable things to have to
explain
to sighted people who take the time to provide you with documents
in
accessible formats.
I think if HumanWare wants to retain a loyal BrailleNote user
base,
they owe us an explanation.
Grant
On 1/30/09, Kevin Chao <[email protected]> wrote:
The PAC Mate Omni supports PDF, Word 2007, Powerpoint 2007 and
much more.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Karyn Campbell
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 8:20 AM
To: Braillenote Discussion List
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Press Release: KeySoft 8.0
Richard,
You are right that this is not student-friendly due to the lack
of better
support for complex Word documents. As I said in a previous
post, people
cannot continually ask for things to be sent as text files or in
rich text
format. They will be told to get a solution that better meets
their needs
and the BN is looking like it is not it.
Thank you for the info on how other devices handle Word
documents. Do any
of the devices you mentioned, the voice sense, the Braille
sense, the
Braille Plus or the Ikon, handle Word 2007 documents? I would
be
interested
in knowing the answer to that one.
I too would have thought that an OS upgrade, as difficult as it
might be,
is
long overdue. Again, we will be left behind if this is not the
case. I
also agree with those who say that the fix for Bookshare should
have been
released as a patch. As I have said, HW had some good publicity
with the
release of the DBC but have followed this up with a collossal
failure on
the
Bookshare issue and, I would add, more which includes lack of
Word support
and support for HTML E-mail, both of which users have been
asking for for
years. I am growing tired of hearing that the Word issue is a
Microsoft
issue. We have been told this for so many years that I begin to
wonder
where the truth lies on that one.
Barbara, did you get an answer yet regarding your question about
the DBC
and
Keysoft 8.0 due to the Bookshare issue? I hope you get an
answer and that
other DBC users get an answer on that one as well.
Karyn Campbell, Illinois USA, [email protected]
VN QT M Power user running KS 7.5 B 28.
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