Hi Scott. I have a PacMate. It will not work as a direct braille display on the Mac, unless you take the braille display off the PacMate part. This is not true of some note takers where you have different modes. Just take the braille display off, and VoiceOver should immediately recognize it when you connect with a USB cable to a Mac.
If you want to get files into and out of your PacMate and have them on your computer, you need a flash card or a thumb drive. The thumb drive is easier. You can then fairly quickly transfer files to and from the PacMate via the thumb drive. I like this better than syncing with the PacMate because I found the syncing process to sometimes be a little flakey. Oh, you will need an inexpensive cable if you use a thumb drive to transfer your files. You can tell TextEdit, and I guess Pages, that you want one of them to open any brf files you transfer to your computer and decide to read on it. If you read a brf file on your computer, you will see the control characters displayed (you know like carriage returns, page breaks, etc.) You can't do that on the PacMate, so there would be an advantage in sending any file you wrote on the PacMate that you wanted to review. You could also save out a file you had written as a brf file as an rtf file, put into TextEdit, and check it for control characters. Turning your translator on and off will need to be done in the VoiceOver Utility since the PacMate display doesn't have input keys once it's connected to the Mac. Somebody else here could tell you, but there's probably a quick way to do that. I haven't tried since I have other options. Eugenia Firth [email protected] On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Scott Berry wrote: > Hello there, > > I am thinking about changing over to a Mac exclusively for school work. but > I have a few questions. > > 1. Will Microsoft Office work with VoiceOver? If not, what would be another > good word processing program for school work? > > 2. I do remember a while ago that there was a site with Mac apps on it that > worked well for the blind could I get that site again please > > 3. I have a Pacmate braille display will that work on the Mac? > > 4. I also have a Enabling Technologies Romeo 25 braille embosser will that > work on the Mac? > > 5. Due to restrictions at college they force me to install Symantec > Antivirus will there be any problems with that? > > 6. Are there any good podcasts, blogs, or any other pages about Voiceover > and how to use a Mac as a blind person? > > -- > Scott Berry > Msn: [email protected] > Skype me at: scottbb1973 > > -- > 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. > > <scottbb1973.vcf> -- 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.
