Re: BrailleBlaster for the Mac revisited

2019-12-22 Thread 'Shawn Krasniuk' via MacVisionaries
Also, when focused on an app you're opening for the first time, pressing VO+Shift+M for the contextual menu and arrowing down to open will do the trick as well. It's much faster than getting the error message you got and having to go to system preferences to allow it to open and then going back

Re: BrailleBlaster for the Mac revisited

2019-12-21 Thread Michael Busboom
You are a genius, Joseph, and I thank you very much! Now, I need to study the program and learn how to use it. I am hopeful that there is good documentation. Again, thanks so much! Mike > On 20.12.2019, at 18:35, joseph hodge wrote: > > On the Mac now you have to allow third party apps to

Re: BrailleBlaster for the Mac revisited

2019-12-20 Thread joseph hodge
On the Mac now you have to allow third party apps to be able to run. So launch he app it will say this isn’t verified cancel or move to trash. Open system preferences up and go to security and hit the lock button to unlock. Now go to open anyway for braille blaster and this should allow you to o

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-08-01 Thread Julie Rattray
Hi, I was using the index inbuilt translation but found it used to do odd things in the text like braille a D instead of N etc - this could have been a settings thing but it drove me mad so I ended up purchasing Duxburry > On 26 Jul 2019, at 18:15, Anders Holmberg wrote: > > Hi! > THe Index

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-26 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! THe Index Everest do the translation on board and to me this is very very good. I had the Blista Btec 100 and no driver for it so i couldn’t emboss on the mac. /A > 24 juli 2019 kl. 22:57 skrev 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries > : > > Hey Erik, > > I haven't. The things I heard about it

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-25 Thread Erik Burggraaf
Hi, Liblouis is an open source, cross-platform braille translation API. It is the guts of brltty I believe, and it was the basis for louis braille translater forr mac. I believe brailleblaster had implemented liblouis as well. I mean, why re-invent the wheel, right? Hope this helps, Erik

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Is it Louis or Liblouis? The latter I found in a search and its version 3.0.3. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 7/24/2019 5:25 PM, alia robinson wrote: I don’t. I remember I had to wipe my compu

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread alia robinson
I don’t. I remember I had to wipe my computer and it took me literally ages to find it again! I just looked and I cannot find it *anywhere* On Jul 24, 2019, at 8:21 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: Do you happen to have the link to the developer's site? -- The following information is

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Do you happen to have the link to the developer's site? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 7/24/2019 5:17 PM, alia robinson wrote: Louis-3.0.0 On Jul 24, 2019, at 8:17 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionarie

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread alia robinson
Louis-3.0.0 On Jul 24, 2019, at 8:17 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: What version is your copy of Louis? >From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 7/24/2019 3:34 PM, alia robinson wrote: > tell tha

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
What version is your copy of Louis? From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 7/24/2019 3:34 PM, alia robinson wrote: tell that to Mojave a because that’s what I’m using it on. On Jul 24, 2019, at 6:08 P

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread alia robinson
tell that to Mojave a because that’s what I’m using it on. On Jul 24, 2019, at 6:08 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: Is Louis still being developed? It is not compatible with Mojave and sure won't be with Catalina. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Vi

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
Is Louis still being developed? It is not compatible with Mojave and sure won't be with Catalina. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 7/24/2019 2:06 PM, alia robinson wrote: it works just fine to m

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread alia robinson
it works just fine to me, but I use louis on mac. it is super simple, and super easy. On Jul 24, 2019, at 4:57 PM, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hey Erik, I haven't. The things I heard about it weren't very positive, and since I already owned Duxbury and had a PC, I've just stuck

Re: Brailleblaster was Re: In the market for a new laptop- your advice

2019-07-24 Thread 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries
Hey Erik, I haven't. The things I heard about it weren't very positive, and since I already owned Duxbury and had a PC, I've just stuck with that. Cheers, Donna > On Jul 24, 2019, at 3:41 PM, Erik Burggraaf wrote: > > Hi Donna,Have you experimented with APH brailleblaster? It served me well

Re: Brailleblaster.

2014-05-11 Thread Jessica
Last time I checked, that program was still in beta. It was estimated it would take about two years before there would be a first full version. Is it still in Maida? Sent from my iPhone > On May 9, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Caitlyn and Maggie > wrote: > > I have an index here myself. > > I'll have

Re: Brailleblaster.

2014-05-09 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
I have an index here myself. I'll have to play around with things and see what I can accomplish. Cait On May 9, 2014, at 10:24 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi. > > It does not seem to work here, but it can be me who are missing something. > > Is there anything that will work for imbossing

Re: Brailleblaster.

2014-05-09 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. It does not seem to work here, but it can be me who are missing something. Is there anything that will work for imbossing on an indexprinter. Best regards Annie. Den 09/05/2014 kl. 16.16 skrev Devin Prater : > I haven't had much luck with it. > >> On May 9, 2014, at 8:47, Caitlyn and Magg

Re: Brailleblaster.

2014-05-09 Thread Devin Prater
I haven't had much luck with it. > On May 9, 2014, at 8:47, Caitlyn and Maggie wrote: > > thanks for this, Annie. > > I'll give it a go this weekend and try and report back if I have anyluck > using it. > > I am just learning about embossing with the mac. > > Cait > >> On May 9, 2014, at 9

Re: Brailleblaster.

2014-05-09 Thread Caitlyn and Maggie
thanks for this, Annie. I'll give it a go this weekend and try and report back if I have anyluck using it. I am just learning about embossing with the mac. Cait On May 9, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Annie Skov Nielsen wrote: > Hi. > > There are a new brailleblaster out. Has anyone tried it. > > htt

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-23 Thread Annie Skov Nielsen
Hi. If you need a printable braille file in pef or something else, you can use www.robobraille.org, it can handle many languidges. You can also if you need to print with an index braille printer print from the mac, then the pef format works best. To set your braille printer up use the guide o

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-22 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I don't really know what's involved, but you might suggest to them that they would want to be recognized as a Apple developer for the Mac portion of what they're doing. In my case, my security settings won't let me download anything that is not either from the app store or from a recogn

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-22 Thread Scott Berry
Actually no there is a guy named Alex that did the I think it was a .dmg file for the Mqac. I can certainly find out. On 2/22/13 9:49, Erik Burggraaf wrote: Hi, I know that john is a linux user, and I know he's aware of the mac. Most of the testers and other developers are on windows though.

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-22 Thread Erik Burggraaf
Hi, I know that john is a linux user, and I know he's aware of the mac. Most of the testers and other developers are on windows though. As far as I know, I was the only mac tester at the time I was involved with the project. Best, Scott Berry wrote: Actually Eric I'd like to correct your

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-22 Thread Scott Berry
Actually Eric I'd like to correct your statement just a bit the main developer is a full time Linux user who develops this on Linux and does have access to a Mac. I'll touch basis with them and if people are alright I'll send a few of these emails out to their mailing list and see what comes o

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-22 Thread Scott Berry
Hi Henry, I have worked with this developer before and they were in a development stage so yes your right. I'll keep this email and send it forth to them and we'll see what happens here. On 2/21/13 18:04, Henry D. Hollithron wrote: Good Day: Indeed. This program appears to be qui

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi there I did get Louis to work On a text file going to boil. I could not get it to work going the other way. Maybe I just don't know what I'm doing. In my case, I guess I better wait for Duxberry. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:04 PM, "Henry D. Hollithron" wrote: > Good Day: >

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread erik burggraaf
In defence of braille blaster, it's only been a going concern for a year and a half. They're trying to support three operating systems. They had no funding at all lat time I was in touch with the project. And, most of their user base and contributing developers are using windows as a primary

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Devin Prater
So, is there a, well, stable and featurefull braille program out there then? The thing I liked about Louis is that I could make files that had math in them, and it would turn it to Nemath code, I couldn't get it to do much though, it just wouldn't create the braille file after a few tries with i

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
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

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Mark Baxter
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.AccessCont

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again guys Could somebody tell me what the legal situation is of me sending Mark a copy of Louis off list? That is, can this program be shared back-and-forth or not? I never really knew. I was able to get Louis to translate the braille edge manual to grade 2 braille with no problem. I haven't

Re: BrailleBlaster

2013-02-21 Thread Henry D. Hollithron
Good Day: For whatever reason, you need to run this program from the terminal. If you are comfortable with this, then the command is java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar where should be the path to the jar. You can simplify your life by either being in the directory where the jar can be f