Good Day:
Indeed. This program appears to be quite prone to crashing. I realise
that it is open-source and thus not meant to be perfect, but I don't think it's
yet ready for stable use. The exception thrown by the program that you copied
below occurs, I think, when it pops up a dialog stating that "the braille
facility is not available," whatever that means, and when you indicate that you
don't want to continue. Even when I did get past that, when I tried to launch
the tutorial from the help menu, it did open safari, but it also crashed the
java runtime environment. Perhaps I should send an email to the developers to
see if they're still planning to work on this. For now, though, I wouldn't use
it for production use.
As for Louis, it is free, but I've had very little luck getting it to
translate complicated documents--it keeps giving me blank braille files. It
does, however, have the virtue of being significantly more stable and might,
based on comments from other people who have used it successfully, be able to
translate your document if it's simple enough. Perhaps someone more experienced
with the program could give you better help in that direction. Here is the web
page for it, in case you're interested:
http://www.cucat.org/projects/louis
HTH:
Henry
Education never ends. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
Sherlock Homes
On 21 Feb 2013, at 19:06, Mark Baxter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Okay, and here's what I get when I try and launch it from terminal:
> ror
> at org.brailleblaster.Main.main(Unknown Source)
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError
> at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
> at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
> at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
> at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
> at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
> ... 1 more
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