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Embosser question (self.Blind)
submitted by keepingthecommontone
Sighted prof here, and I've been doing a lot of work with braille music notation for my visually impaired student. While there is some great software for managing this (Lime, GOODFEEL) I'm bumping into a few limitations and so I've taken to manually constructing the braille.
The issue I'm having is embossing the final product. Until now, we've been using all-electronic methods such as laptops and notetakers, but for the latest stuff it's going to be easiest to have it embossed. We have a Romeo Pro-50 and I have BRF files that I've constructed. Notepad and Word both seem to have troubles embossing things correctly (I can go into details if you want).
Does anyone else print to embossers? Are there any freely available programs for embossing BRF files? I do not have Duxbury; do I really need to buy it, even though I'm capable of creating the BRF files myself?
Thanks!
The issue I'm having is embossing the final product. Until now, we've been using all-electronic methods such as laptops and notetakers, but for the latest stuff it's going to be easiest to have it embossed. We have a Romeo Pro-50 and I have BRF files that I've constructed. Notepad and Word both seem to have troubles embossing things correctly (I can go into details if you want).
Does anyone else print to embossers? Are there any freely available programs for embossing BRF files? I do not have Duxbury; do I really need to buy it, even though I'm capable of creating the BRF files myself?
Thanks!
mallorypallory 1 points
I asked the veteran Braille Transcriber that I work with and she said, " I don't believe there's any way to emboss something without having a brl program like Duxbury or Braille 2000"
keepingthecommontone [OP] 1 points
Thanks, mallorypallory. I looked around some more (since both of those programs have significant cost) and found Peter Lerup's $1, which allows you to send a text file, unformatted, to a printer. Though it's not specifically designed for embossers, it appears to do the job perfectly.
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