Yes that’s correct. But there is no harm in writing Enabling to try to get them to support the Mac. The more people who do the more likely they are to support the Mac.
> On Dec 31, 2015, at 3:21 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Jason, > This appears to be where I am. Still think in Windows so had expected to do > a similar setup in OS X. > > I want to use Louis and looked at it this morning. I ran the Terminal > command offered to me earlier today which did not show me any serial ports. > So that must mean that OS X cannot see the USB connection that Windows can > using the parallel to USB cable. That is the deal breaker because the Juliet > is too old and I do not expect Enabling will have drivers. > > So if the Mac cannot see the port, I cannot send to the embosser. Correct? > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have been visited > in the past. What if it were true? > > On 12/31/2015 1:26 PM, 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries wrote: >> E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> I finally am doing this on the Mac and as soon as I hit the Add button in >>> Printer prefs, a test page was run off. The Juliet Classic is connected via >>> USB. "Use Generic Postscript Printer" was selected. Is this the correct >>> setup? >> >> >> No. You need to be able to send unmodified ASCII text to the device. OS X >> uses >> Cups as its printer control software. There's a "raw" output option that >> might >> work. >> >> You'll need a braille translator (if you don't have one installed already). >> >> You might also be able to bypass the printer control software entirely. If >> the >> device appears to the system as a serial port, you could write to it, e.g., >> with the cat command. What you want is to send BRF files directly to the >> embosser without modification. >> > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
