I have no reason to believe it would not work with a mac as I
describe. I was able to get another index brand embosser to work with
a Mac in this way. I have not seen an Everest and can not be sure of
course. You will need an translator. Louis is a free, full featured
translator which can be downloaded from http://w3.wmcnet.org/braille/
Louis will do everything that Duxbury can on a PC. Louis supports
sending it's output to serial devices, it also includes the Emboss
program and of course you can send file via the terminal with the cat
command:
cat "braillefile.brl" > /dev/cu.KeySerial1
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:28 AM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Dear Greg,
I find it very interesting what you have just written about being
able to use an Everest embosser with Mac. I bought my embosser,
everest, in 2000. It has both a serial and a parallel conection for
connectivity with a pc. I've been using Winbraille from index
Braille to print braille from my pc under windows. I e-mailed index
braille to ask them whether my everest would work with a Mac
computer, and they said no.
I may be asking too much of you but do you thinkk that my Everest
might still work with Mac using the usb to serial port convertor
using the specifications you have described?
From where would you issue the command? From which application, I
mean? Itt looks that I would also need a translation software as
Winbraille would obviously not work with Mac.
With best wishes
Simon CavendishOn 16 Jan 2008, at 23:45, Greg Kearney wrote:
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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.
