The trick to getting embosser to work with the Mac is to use serial
communications with them. Does this embosser have a serial port? If so
it is possible to get them to work. According to what I have been able
to find out the Everest braille embosser does support serial. Here is
what you will need:
A null modem serial cable, or a regular serial cable and a null modem
adapter.
a USB to serial interface, I suggest the Keyspan adapter. from
keyspan.com
various gender changes depending on the kind of connector the embosser
has.
Check that your embosser is set with the following serial settngs:
9600 baud
No parity
eight data bits
one stop bit
hardware handshaking
Connect your camble and install your Keyspan software. Then you can
use Louis or the Emboss program or you can just send your braille file
to the embosser with a cat command fromthe command line like this:
cat "braillefile.brl" > /dev/cu.KeySerial1
If the embosser support bluetooth you might be able to do it with that
but I don't have one with bluetooth and so can not tell for sure.
If someone can get me the technical details of the TCP communications
for these embossers I could look into doing it that way. Trouble is I
don't have a big collection of embossers to play with.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Jan 16, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Hello,
I have an index everest braille embosser which I use successfully
with Windows xp. I've e-mailed index braille to ask them whether my
everest could be made compatible with a Mac computer and they said
no. I seem to think that basic d embossers may be similar. hope I am
wrong for your sake.
Simon
On 16 Jan 2008, at 02:39, Greg Kearney wrote:
I have not worked with the index embossers much and what I have
done has been with serial communications with them.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:15 PM, Shane Jackson wrote:
Hello, list. I am attempting, rather unsuccessfully, to install a
Basic D Braille embosser on my Mac. Actually, the Basic D is on
our network at the office. It works fine from the PC, but alas,
the Mac won't even install the drivers for it. I've gone to www.indexbraille.com
and downloaded the driver from there, and I've also downloaded
the full IBraille package. Neither of them will install on my
Mac, using Leopard. When I get to the point at which it tells me
how much room the installation needs, it always says zero or
something like "this program needs no additional space." Can
someone shed some light on this subject, and is there another
driver I can install that doesn't have anything to do with the one
at www.indexbraille.com or Sighted Electronics? I have a feeling
that these are bad disk images, but this is just a really big
guess on my part, and I do hope that I am wrong. Any help would
be very much appreciated.
