Hmmm, maybe it can be done. There are free translation programs like Win
Trans and NFBtrans, not sure if they're still available but they're probably
still in use somewhere. Kurzweil, and possibly Open Book can do the basics,
take your average text file or Word file or whatever it will open and save
to BRF files, doing the translation. Wintrans can take text to brf as well
if that is still availale somewhere. With new machines, the interconnection
is the most difficult part. I remember using those Braille Blazers with the
Braille 'N Speaks, nothing too special in the Blazer, it took ascii text,
whatever it was, and embossed it, if you sent pplain text you just got
computer braille out, the BNS just reformatted the file so it was properly
translated, so you only need the basic translation behind a generic ascii
print driver. I'm not sure if a serial one exists in XP and I really doubt
it for 7 and Vista. This may need you need 2 converters, USB to parallel so
the computer thinks it's a printer at all, and parallel to serial to feed
the Blazer. Who knows if that combination technically goes at all. Maybe
Wintrans, Kurzweil/Open book, or NFBTrans can go direct to serial without
the windows printing system, or the blazer does have parallel. If you had
parallel on that blazer a USB to Parallel adapter with the generic printer
setup has the best chance of working. I hope you can get that thing running
again as I'm not sure FS still makes them. I hope if FS is still producing
Blazers that they at least have a USB port, but I do thing Braille Lites are
still in production.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jorge Paez" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 4:42 PM
Subject: SPAM: [JAWS-Users] embosser
Hi all:
Two quick questions.
First, I have a small Blazy emboser that I used to use with my Braillelite
that I no longer use.
My question is can I use it with my new laptop?
If so, what app do I need?
I don't have Duxberry or any of that.
Any free ones?
Also, when using Sonar, can I emboss using that embosser?
Thanks,
Jorge
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