No, Stanza is not in the app store. It's a little elusive, and sometimes download links are broken, but CNet seems to be the most reliable one. Amazon used to own Stanza, but it seems to be kind of free-floating these days: http://download.cnet.com/Stanza/3000-2056_4-198177.html
HtH, Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Jan 19, 2013, at 1:14 PM, Scott Davert <scottslistm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Stanza is also available for the Mac. Louis? I'll have to check into > that. I hope it's in the app store so that I don't have to go digging > for it. Thank you for the tip about braille translation on the Mac! I > have a few brf files I have saved on my Braille Edge that I'd like to > put on the Mac. This seems like the only solution. > > Scott > > On 1/19/13, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It will only work on a Braille display. Speech will make gibberish out of >> it. >> >> Teresa >> >> >> Visualize whirled peas. >> >> On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Russ Kiehne <russ94...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You would have to use some thing like WinBT to back translate them. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- From: Moop Curran >>> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2013 3:33 PM >>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >>> Subject: Re: Reading .brf Files On The iPhone >>> >>> Hi, >>> So there's no way to read the .brf files from NLS on ios without a braille >>> display? If so, this is really unfortunate. >>> Courtney >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Tune into my show, moopie's mix, every Thursday morning at 2 UTC or 10 PM >>> Eastern on the Global Voice Internet Radio, >>> http://www.theglobalvoice.info. Moopie's Mix can also be downloaded from >>> the program gallery on that site. >>> >>> >>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I should add that I was mentioning programs for the Mac. I would assume >>> that there is a word-processing application for Windows that will export >>> to pdf as well. >>> >>> HtH, >>> Teresa >>> >>> >>> Visualize whirled peas. >>> >>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, Mary, >>> >>> IOS has a built[in translator to convert text into Grade Two Braille. As >>> an aside, it does not have a back-translation program to convert brf files >>> into Grade One. >>> >>> A brf file is actually a plain ASCII text file with normal characters that >>> represent Braille. There is no special computer formatting for a brf file. >>> Therefore, this same text is rendered accurately when it's placed into an >>> epub file. >>> >>> You can use Stanza to convert files to epub. You can also use TextEdit to >>> export the files to pdf format. >>> >>> Again, the text, completely translated into Grade Two as originally >>> produced by NLS, is rendered perfectly. It looks perfect on a Braille >>> display, but since the characters represent Braille, it will be spoken as >>> gibberish if you use speech. >>> >>> I hope this helps. :) >>> >>> Teresa >>> >>> >>> On the other hand, there are different fingers. >>> >>> On Jan 18, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Mary Otten <motte...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Teresa, >>> I'm confused. What I think you said is that it is possible to read brf >>> files if you first convert them to epub for importation into iBooks. How >>> the heck do you convert a brf file into an epub? And once you did that, >>> then wouldn't it be translated out of braille grade II into regular print >>> in the epub form? So you'd need a braille translator together with a >>> program that converted the text from the braille translator into epub? 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