[Blindmath] Tiger Max braille embosser

Sat Sep 27 00:25:33 UTC 2014

Hi Dan,

I've just taken possession of an EmBraille and am also investigating its use with graphics and braille at the moment.

I've already use Tiger embossers to get images out of R and I'm pretty confident that I could do the same out of other software without having to take the images through other software, whether that be using TSS in a Word document or the IVEO viewer etc.

The graphs I generated do not have braille of course. They are just the visual image bashed out on paper, but there was plenty of information in the content of the graphs I've tried thus far without the text being readable. In particular, I want to know that a label has been printed where I expect one to be when I take the image and put it in a document for the sighted world. 

If you want braille in the images, then you will need a human to intervene. They'll need more than the TSS to do this. IVEO creator for them and IVEO viewer for you.

So, my advice is to get some of the software you'll use, generate some images and then emboss them using the Tiger. If that means taking someone from the department to the place where the embosser is so that you can test it then perhaps that is what you'll need to do.

If you want to have a tactile version of the images someone else is making then try the above, but be prepared to put them into a Word document  if you don't have the right software. 

It seems to me that you will have more trouble with the software used to make the images  than the embossing process. Depending on the software you need to test I may be able to help. I'll soon have a ViewPlus Premiere 100 on the network at work and will get others to send images from software I don't use. I can probably track down a few physicists if needed but mathematicians are easier for me to come by. Send requests to me directly in that case at a.j.godfrey at massey.ac.nz

Good luck.
Jonathan

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From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dániel Hajas via Blindmath
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Subject: [Blindmath] Tiger Max braille embosser

Hi all,

My university just bought a Tiger Max braille embosser. It should also come with the Tiger Software Suite.

Could you please give me some advice how to use it efficiently for producing diagrams needed in physics and mathematics?

The embosser is going to be used by myself for purposes of printing mathematical figures and an other blind person mainly for printing braille text.

As I have never used any embosser and have a very limited knowledge on them, I am asking for your experiences and technical tipps. I am really new in the topic of creating tactile figures using an embosser.

May be a few explicit questions to get started:

1.       Can I produce diagrams 100% individually using the software and a
screen reader? Not necessarily by producing them directly on TSS but lets say import from an svg or pdf file? Or I will still need someone to adjust graphs from a file to a tactile print view?

2.       What can the software do? Is it only for settings of the embosser
or it is a sort of editor for image sas well?

Many thanks,

Dan

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