Thanks Theresa, i appreciate this, this method is a lot easier than I was going through the steps with so if you don't mind I am going to share this with one of my patrons here at the library. I work with the braille collection here at the Library for the Blind and also handle technology and alternative reading methods and this goes right up there with what I do perfectly. Thanks for the trick and I'll pass this along if you don't mind. I've been using web braille on Itunes but I've been doing it the hard way using a braille translator, a book converter, like Stanza, and all that junk, but this makes it easier. Thanks again and take care. Talk to you soon.
Sent from my iPad On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Teresa Cochran <vegaspipistre...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I don't usually cross-post, but this seems like an instance in which it would > be beneficial. > > I'm going to share with you all the way I've successfully imported WebBraille > books to read in IBooks. There are other methods of reading these on the > IPhone/IPod, but this method will allow you to keep your place in the book > when you need to pause reading. I used TextEdit on the Mac to open the file > and export it to pdf. Check your text-editor's documentation on exporting to > pdf if you're using another OS or editor. > > This method will only work with a braille display, and does *not* work with > speech. > > I haven't tested it on other brf files, but you might give it a try. > > 1. Open a brf WebBraille file in TextEdit. If you don't like the uppercase > dot-7 caps appearing for all of the characters, select all the text, go into > the edit menu, choose "transformations" and change to lower case. At this > point, you can check the document with the braille display to see if it is > readable. Use eight-dot Braille, uncontracted. > 2. From the file menu in TextEdit, choose "export to pdf". In the save > dialog, you'll be presented with a filename with a pdf extension. Save the > file in a place that's easy to find. > 3. In Itunes add the file you just saved to your library. It will appear in > your Books list. > 4. Use whichever sync settings you've specified to sync this book to your > IDevice. I usually do this manually, placing the file in my Ipod/books > playlist. > 5. Open IBooks and find the file in your IBooks library. Change Braille to > eight-dot, uncontracted. Use dots 3- and 6-chord at the page chooser to > switch pages. > > Enjoy. > > Teresa > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
