Alex;
The reason why Olearia can not read the DTBook files that OpenOffice
makes is that at this point Olearia can only read full audio DAISY
books. We are working hard on adding text only DAISY to Olearia as
soon as possible.
One misunderstanding about both the OpenOffice and WSWord "save as
DAISY" solutions is that they produce finished formal DAISY books.
This is not really the case however. What they are producing is a
DTBook XML file which can be used in turn to produce a DAISY book
fileset with tools like the DAISY Pipeline. There are plans to
integrate the Pipeline into these tools so they will in fact generate
the whole set of files that DAISY requires.
Some DAISY playback devices, such as the VictorReader Stream, are able
to read the DTBook files directly and it is hoped that Olearia will be
able to as well. But strictly speaking a DTBook file is not, in and of
itself, a DAISY book.
If you use the DAISY Pipeline on the Mac you can take the DTBook files
you get from the OpenOffice conversion and have Pipeline's Narrator
option produce a full text/full audio DAISY book fileset which the
current beta version of Olearia can read.
Hope this helps.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Dec 8, 2008, at 10:17 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
All,
I need to know why the Openoffice extention for DAISY Talking Books
won't export something Olieria can use.
Also, is there another alternative to convert straight text to DAISY
Talking Books on the Mac.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
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