Well you could do it by hand but it would be very difficult to do. It would require understanding teh DAISY specification very well indeed.
The link to the OpenOffice plugin can be found here: http://odt2dtbook.sourceforge.net/ Gregory Kearney Manager - Accessible Media Association for the Blind of Western Australia 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) Email: [email protected] On 04/09/2009, at 4:02 PM, James & Nash wrote: > > Thanks Greg, > Where can I get this plugin from and some info on making the process > work > please? Can you do this by hand? > > Thank you > > Take care > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Kearney" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 1:37 AM > Subject: Re: Creating DAISY books was VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow > Leopard) is DAISY format > > >> >> Yes you can and in fact we use Macs here all the time to do just >> that. >> The best way is to use OpenOffice with the odt2dtbook plugin. That >> will export a DTBook XML file which can be used with the Daisy >> Pipeline software to generate the finished book. The next release of >> the plugin will eliminate the need to use DAISY Pipeline and will >> export a finished DAISY book. >> >> >> Gregory Kearney >> Manager - Accessible Media >> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 >> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia >> >> Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 >> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) >> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 >> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) >> Email: [email protected] >> >> On 03/09/2009, at 7:23 PM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Gret and everyone, >>> >>> Is it possible to create DAISY books on Mac OS X? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> James >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Les Kriegler" <[email protected]> >>> To: <[email protected]>; "'Discussion of Digital >>> Talking >>> Books'" <[email protected]>; "'Mike Shebanek'" >>> <[email protected]>; >>> "'Mary Beth Janes'" <[email protected]>; "'macvoiceover'" >>> <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:16 AM >>> Subject: RE: VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow Leopard) is DAISY >>> format >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Hi Greg, >>>> >>>> This is great! Navigation now will be much easier. Thanks for >>>> posting. >>>> >>>> Les >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Kearney >>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:27 AM >>>> To: Discussion of Digital Talking Books; Mike Shebanek; Mary Beth >>>> Janes; >>>> [email protected]; macvoiceover >>>> Subject: VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow Leopard) is DAISY format >>>> >>>> >>>> VoiceOver Getting Started (Snow Leopard) is DAISY format has been >>>> produced >>>> by the Association for the Blind of Western Australia and can be >>>> downloaded >>>> from the following URL: >>>> >>>> http://www.cucat.org/tmp/vogs_sl.zip >>>> >>>> This is a full text full audio DAISY version 2.02 digital talking >>>> book >>>> with >>>> navigation at the chapter and subsection level and page numbers >>>> supported. >>>> >>>> >>>> Gregory Kearney >>>> Manager - Accessible Media >>>> Association for the Blind of Western Australia >>>> 61 Kitchener Avenue, PO Box 101 >>>> Victoria Park 6979, WA Australia >>>> >>>> Telephone: +61 (08) 9311 8202 >>>> Telephone: +1 (307) 224-4022 (North America) >>>> Fax: +61 (08) 9361 8696 >>>> Toll free: 1800 658 388 (Australia only) >>>> Email: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>>> signature >>>> database 4390 (20090902) __________ >>>> >>>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>>> >>>> http://www.eset.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>>> signature >>>> database 4390 (20090902) __________ >>>> >>>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>>> >>>> http://www.eset.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>>> signature >>>> database 4390 (20090902) __________ >>>> >>>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>>> >>>> http://www.eset.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
