Hello Theresa, Navigating PDF titles in iBooks is almost the same as navigating EPUB or native iBooks titles but with one little difference.
The following is for navigating native iBooks titles using the Focus 40 Blue Braille display which both you and I enjoy: 1. Use the Wiz Wheels to pan through a page of text. 2. When Page Chooser is in focus, at the end of the page, use a chord-6 to jump forward one page or chord-3 to jump back one page at a time. 3. Before doing anything else, after using your desired chord combo, carefully scroll up one click on a Wiz Wheel. This will take you to the top of the current page. Please note that this works only if you do not use any other key-combos immediately following either a chord-6 or chord 3. Now, the only difference between the above and navigating in a PDF title is that there is usually one extra line that denotes the number of pages in the title just above the Page Chooser line. Ignore this extra line; it is for information only. However, after entering your desired chord combo, carefully scroll up two clicks on a Wiz Wheel in order to be taken to the top of the current page. Theresa, please feel free to send me one of your .BRF files, off-list of course, and I will attempt to determine the cause of your .BRF iBooks problem. Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Teresa Cochran Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 11:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Don't Seem To Be Having Much Luck Reading brf-to-Epub in IBooks; Anyone else? Hi, Mark, It'll be a few hours before I can try this. I'm a little hesitant, because I have a bit of a hard time navigating pdf files in iBooks. When I switch pages, there is often either no change or several pages are skipped. I may have a zoom setting adjusted wrong or something. Anyhow, I will try it. How do you navigate consistently in pdf files with IBooks? I've attempted to change horizontal pages with a three-finger swipe to the left or a Braille dots 1-3-5-chord. Thanks, Teresa "We are made of star-stuff"--Carl Sagan, Cosmos On Apr 17, 2012, at 11:43 AM, M. Taylor wrote: > Theresa, > > Pages is working for me so I'm truly curious as to what the problem may be. > > Please try converting to PDF instead of Epub in Pages, OK? > > Please let me know. > > I just converted a file to P > df with complete success. > > I eagerly await your result. > > Mark > > > > > On Apr 17, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > >> Unfortunately, I'm getting bizarre results in Pages, too. First of all, it won't open brf files, so I pasted the file into a blank document. I saved it as an epub document, and noted the help tag that indicated it could be read in Ibooks. When I opened it in Ibooks, it indicated one page and no Braille was displayed. >> >> I'm kind of thinking this may not be the way to go about this. Maybe reading in Safari or a Braille-specific app would work best. Perhaps the National Library Service will include it in their upcoming app for web braille and Bard. >> >> If anyone else makes any headway, I'd still be greatly interested to hear how you fare. I'm going to take a bit of a break from attempting to reinvent the wheel here. :) >> >> Thanks, >> Teresa >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> 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/viphone?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 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/viphone?hl=en.
