I hear you, Angel. Only, I often have to work with the printed page for submission to sighted people, not just read it for my own benefit or pleasure. There's a big difference between the twain when you must present a job that is expected to be true to the original layout as opposed to just being well translated, or, as I was mentioning in another thread, offer and present material to a student and refer to precise exercises and examples, or page numbers.
As a reader, I agree wholeheartedly that technology has brought us tremendously increased access to useful and entertaining material. The working arena, with its increased dependence on the graphics user interface, plus the ease with which sighted computer users can assemble publishable material, , puts us at a greater, and bleaker, disadvantage. I can't tell you how many translation job offers I've had to reject, simply because I cannot guarantee exact rendition of formats, or ensure that the panes of a certain brochure will follow in the correct order or be associated with the right picture. The information blackout, as Brian Vogel calls it (I think), is the ever-present ghost, or monster, ready to bite you in the toes, preferably at midnight when you're struggling to meet a deadline. Maybe I should switch from translation to horror fiction writing... Cheers, Gudrun -----Original Message----- From: Angel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: textbook scanning for teaching purposes You wouldn't say that if technology caused you to be able to read a printed page. When without technology you couldn't. ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Vogel <mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 11:06 PM Subject: Re: textbook scanning for teaching purposes Gudrun, Not that I necessarily think the result will be better, but if you can share the file with me I'll take a look at it. Actually, 20 minutes for 704 pages seems remarkably fast, it's taken me much longer than that to do shorter files, but a lot of that depends on the original file itself. The only thing worse than technology is the lack of technology, and sometimes the degree of worse is very, very little!! Brian -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [email protected]. -=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View This Message (#38300): https://groups.io/g/jfw/message/38300 Mute This Thread: https://groups.io/mt/598030?uid=21656 Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/jfw/editsub?uid=21656 Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/jfw/leave/46502/1292106160/xyzzy Group Home: https://groups.io/g/jfw Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
