Hi,
Sorry,
Replace it with http://www.vipbc.org/wiki/index.php, sorry
Tell me if this works.
Thanks for lsitening,
Alex,
On 13-Dec-08, at 9:25 PM, Ryan Dour wrote:
Hello,
The link had an internal IP for your box, not an outside IP or
domain. By the way, do you need a place to host this thing? Let me
know, that's what I do, hosting.
Ryan
On Dec 12, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
Hi,
I put it in a wiki doc at:
http://192.168.0.229/wiki/index.php/Embossers_MPrint_Setup
Please contribute if you think anything else need updating in
there. If you don't want this on the wiki, just let me know.
Thanks for listening,
Alex,
On 12-Dec-08, at 1:49 PM, Ryan Dour wrote:
Hello,
Using the following combination of crazy setup, I have had
complete success with the Emprint embosser:
Tools You'll Need:
* Louis braille translator (thanks Greg!)
* Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard.
* WebKit, as in one of the steps you'll need to select an item
from a multi-select list box. Download latest nightly build at:
http://www.webkit.org/
This was tested on a MacBook Pro 17' 2.16 GHz CoreDuo with 2 GB
RAM and Mac OS X 10.5.5.
1. Open WebKit
2. Go to "localhost:631"
3. Click the "Admin" link.
4. Find your ViewPlus Emprint, Tiger, or other embosser by header.
5. Click "Modify" and then follow instructions.
6. On the "Make" screen, interact with the list and select "RAW"
only. Then stop interacting and click the button called "Button."
It should be called continue, but there is a bug in WebKit, can't
win em' all.
7. Select "Local RAW" from the list, it should be the only
selectable item. Press return.
When you have completed the setup properly, your ViewPlus embosser
should be reporting that it uses a local raw queue.
Embossing:
1. Use Louis to import a file and translate it into braille.
2. On the processing tab, select /dev/null as you won't be
directing the output to the embosser right away.
3. After translation, open the Terminal program at /Applications/
Utilities/ or launch with Spotlight.
4. At the command line, type the following to emboss your file:
cat <file> |lp
Your file should emboss. Here is an example that may assist you.
cat ~/Documents/Example.brl |lp
or
cat /Users/rdour/Documents/Test.brl |lp
If your file and resulting translations live on an external flash
or hard disk:
cat /Volumes/External\ HD/Translations/Example.brl |lp
If you have more than one line printer, use the "man lp" command
to learn more about line printing. Also, try "man -k lp" for more
information.
If this all seems really difficult, maybe I can create an
Automator workflow for this, or an AppleScript that simply
translates and embosses the selected file. I want to avoid this,
as not everyone wants the same settings from Louis. Louis rocks,
and I just need to discover the best number of rows and columns
for my paper.
NOTE: You must configure the Emprint first in Windows for legacy
braille embossing. To read a tutorial on this, visit ViewPlus at http://www.viewplus.com
and click Downloads, Tutorials, TSS 4.0, and download the .zip
file. Read the section about using Duxbury, it instructs you to
basically visit the Properties for the printer to adjust values in
the Legacy tab.
I hope this helps someone. If anyone wants this to be placed in
the WIKI, let me know. This is a very rough draft of the
instructions, and I still have yet to figure out the best way to
set cell count and row count. Anyone know what an 8.5 by 11 sheet
normally uses? I'm a bad braille student, learned in 8th grade
through freshman year, and then came to the realization that world
isn't made in braille. I never did get the reading fast part down,
I'm terribly slow. I can braille just fine, and read reasonably.
But little facts like how many cells are on an 8.5 wide page and
how many rows on an 11 length sheet? Nah, can't remember.
Ryan
