Nfbtrans is free, and can be downloaded from the nfb file area, but the osx specific changes won't be in it there. I had posted it on my site I'd thought, but it doesn't appear to be there, so I'll send it to you in email. As for learning to use it, it's fairly straightforward, there's codes for blank lines, (~s) center (~c), page numbering, table of contents, and so on. They're not hard to learn, but as I said, they do require hand coding them into the document to be translated, which is what turns off most folks from using it. I may take a crack at writing an rtf to nfbtrans format converter, but it won't be this week, and in any case, that's not a job that can be knocked out in a couple hours anyhow. But, if you're ok with working on text files, and editing them for inserting the nfbtrans codes, you can easily use nfbtrans for translating your braille documents. If you have a serial to usb adapter, it's likely nfbtrans will work out of the box on your printer, if not, you may have to manually copy the file to the printer (nfbtrans really isn't setup to handle unix device names). Usually, what I do is translate the document on my mac, then print it on my dos machine. Eventually, it will irritate me enough to fix it so it works all from the mac, but I don't have a usb braille printer, and testing would be problematic in that case. :) I would of course be willing to assist anyone needing help getting it to work on their macs. It's likely an apple script or shell script could be written to automate the entire process, but I've not gotten around to doing that just yet, though come to think of it, an apple script to do the initial conversion wouldn't be very difficult, I may do that and post here tonight or tomorrow. Nfbtrans isn't the most automatic program out there, but it sure can do the job if you're willing to work with it a little. hth.
On Dec 4, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Eleanor Martha Burke wrote: > Where does one get nfbtrans from and does one have to pay for it? Would you > be able to give us instructions on how to use it? > > Eleanor > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Siegel" <tsie...@softcon.com> > To: "OS X & iOS Accessibility" <mac-access@mac-access.net> > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 9:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Mac-access]: braille translator for the mac > > >> There's two braille translations that have been ported to the mac. Neither >> one is as automatic as what you're used to on windows, though it would >> probably be possible to make one of them do so if someone wanted to take the >> time to code rtf tag recognition into them). Nfbtrans, which is relatively >> simple to use, though you do need to manually handle formatting of your >> document using tags specific to nfbtrans. I use nfbtrans exclussively for >> all of my brailling needs, both on osx and windows/dos. >> The other one you already know about, and that's louis braille translator. I >> have copies of louis somewhere, though I'm not sure where. For some reason, >> I can't locate the osx version of nfbtrans on my softcon pages, though I was >> fairly certain I'd posted it there quite a long time ago, so if you want a >> copy, let me know, and I'll email it to you directly until I can get the >> time to put it up on softcon's mac pages again. >> hth >> On Dec 4, 2014, at 3:05 PM, william lomas wrote: >> >>> hi all,can i get braille translation software for the mac?i want a native >>> mac app not interested in running windows!can i still get this lewis i've >>> read about?i run mac 10,10.if i can get mac native software equivalent to >>> duxbury, then how i get embosser recognized?i have index basic s >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> mac-access@mac-access.net >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>> at the list's public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> >>> >>> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we always strive to ensure that >>> the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and >>> worm-free. 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