Thanks Esther. First, it's amazing to me how stuff you know about this. I'm impressed. I'll save this info for that future iPad. I don't really need it for my iPhone.
Regards, Gigi Eugenia Firth [email protected] On Apr 10, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Gigi, > > Teresa is speaking about an iOS app: > • Filer ($3.99) by Dan Leehr L.L.C. > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filer/id318884764?mt=8 > > It's a download app, but also lets you organize and play many formats of > documents and multimedia files within then app, with the benefit of generally > keeping your bookmark location. Also a handy way to transfer downloaded > files so you can open them in other iOS applications. Theres a quite > flexible web browser interface, with bookmarklets, too, as well as the > ability to download directly from your Dropbox, etc. > > The nice feature is using this for documents reading and keeping your place. > I don't know how to get around Teresa's question about the behavior of > bookmarking for large files in Braille, though. > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Apr 10, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: > >> Hi Teresa. >> I don't how I can use Safari in my case, since I'm getting the files off the >> internet. However, where do you get this Filer program? Does it come from >> the App store, and how much is it? >> >> Also, in as so far as your Vo messing up when you did a big file, I'm in >> Lion kitty. I don't remember which one you have. In my case, I wasn't moving >> around a lot in the file, and I suppose that might " had something to do >> with more. >> >> Regards, >> Gigi >> >> Eugenia Firth >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: >> >>> Hi, Gigi, >>> >>> I'm glad this works for you. I tried reading a book in Notes and it seemed >>> that the file was too big, because my VO kept freezing and starting over, >>> no matter how many times I rebooted the IPod. I've basically started >>> reading larger files in Safari and Filer. >>> >>> Take care, >>> Teresa >>> >>> "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos >>> >>> On Apr 10, 2012, at 6:35 AM, Eugenia Firth wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Guys. >>>> I have been doing some experiments with Notes and braille, specifically >>>> brf files. Hey, guys, Apple never intended for it to be used like this, >>>> but Notes will swallow a whole brf file such as o you would get from Web >>>> Braille. Notes will do transformation such as making all the text lower >>>> case, but it's faster to do that in TextEdit and also to avoid Mail Busy. >>>> However, Mail Busy did come out of it on ÿ computer. Also, Notes takes the >>>> display of the most irritating outhe control characters, the carriage >>>> returns and the line feeds. The spaces and the page breaks are displayed, >>>> but they are displayed in such a way that it doesn't interfere with where >>>> the goes on the idsplay. In other words, what's supposed to be in cell 40 >>>> is. If i had known this sooner, I would have tried it two weeks ago when I >>>> was using my Mac to read brf files. >>>> >>>> Because Web braille files have a margin of cell 38, this reading using >>>> this method should better on them. This is because the computer insists on >>>> showing a blank line if there is acharacter in cell 40. There won't be a >>>> character in cell 40 in a Web braille file. I think the display of control >>>> characters is a silent one in notes, and that's why you see a blank line >>>> with files that have a 40 cell margin. But for those with cell 38 no what >>>> appears to be a blank line should be displayed. >>>> >>>> I hope all this makes sense. This means yours truly can use an iPad with >>>> Notes for my reports because they are much shorter than those brf files. >>>> It also means, that, if I wanted to, I could use either a Mac or the iPad >>>> to read a brf file with very little conversion. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Gigi >>>> > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
