<div dir="ltr">Hello JooYoung and Johnathan: <div><br></div><div>I am sighted but deaf. Am working as AT Consultant with JooYoung to make these graphics -- he is taking the lead on this project, using AT equipment that I selected for the purposes of sighted people making graphics. I am beginning to think that perhaps I bought the wrong things. </div><div><br></div><div>I have a Phoenix Embosser by Enabling Technologies, and an old Express Embosser by Enabling Technologies. And of course the swell form machine. </div><div><br></div><div>Our goal here is for Jooyoung to produce his own tactiles without sightling support.</div><div><br></div><div>I can currently take his png, insert it into Word, and expand the image while maintaining aspect ratio. I then print it out on swell form paper and Jooyoung swells it. </div><div><br></div><div>Ideally, we would be able to send the image to the Phoenix embosser and emboss. However, the Phoenix does not receive print commands unless one goes through the Firebird software that is the driver for Phoenix. Moreover, opening the image in Firebird causes the Braille labels to appear as blobs of dots instead of as Braille, and moreover, firebird actually drops some of the lines forming the individual bars in the bar chart. </div><div><br></div><div>Jooyoung and I will call Enabling Tech tomorrow to discuss this, but if anyone on this list has suggestions for the actual printing workflow, we would love to hear about them. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you! </div><div>Alexa</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Godfrey, Jonathan via BlindRUG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blindrug@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">blindrug@nfbnet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d">Hello,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d">I used your example and found a few problems, some of which I have an answer for and some I don’t.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d">First, the braille font isn’t friendly with the pdf creation inside R. This means we will need to use an alternative format for distribution. I suggest
using SVG.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d">Second, the braille I got when I embossed the example image was quite small. Too small for regular users and I only managed to assess that the braille
was correct because I knew what to expect. This might be resolved with the use of a better font than the one used in the example, but it will be better to hard code the font size to be what is desired. (I’m looking into that.)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d">Finally, we will probably want to rotate the braille so that it is all embossed horizontally. The y-axis tick marks are 90 degrees out at present. This
is achievable using standard R graphics commands for any print.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d">As an aside, I also have the problem of no y-axis label being printed so the image is not fitting properly on the paper I am using. Some work to do
at my end I expect, but I am confident that my embosser is using default settings so perhaps anyone else using a Premiere 100 would have the same problems.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="word-break:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;color:#1f497d">Jonathan<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> BlindRUG [mailto:<a href="mailto:blindrug-bounces@nfbnet.org" target="_blank">blindrug-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>JOOYOUNG SEO via BlindRUG<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 12 June 2015 10:54 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Blind R Users Group'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> JOOYOUNG SEO<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [BlindRUG] Sharing Successful Braille Labelling Test<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="14df4eff62a8b72d__GoBack"></a> Hello Dr. Godfrey,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I am writing to share my test with you.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Today, I worked with my colleague to use braille font in R graphics and it was successful and an eye-opener.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I hope our findings could contribute to updating future BrailleR.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 1. I downloaded
<a href="http://www.fontspace.com/philing/braille-normal" target="_blank">this font</a> and installed it.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> 2. The following is the syntax I used to get the braille-labled histogram:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">chooseCRANmirror(ind=1)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">install.packages("extrafont")<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">library(extrafont)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">data(airquality)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">attach(airquality)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">font_import(pattern="BRAILLE1.ttf", prompt=FALSE)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">windowsFonts(A=windowsFont("Braille Normal"))<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">hist(Ozone, family="A")<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> 3. Problem and question:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> A. I cannot save the graphic as PDF.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> B. Do you think we can also get free grade2 braille font? This is grade1.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> Thank you.<br>
Best Regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> JooYoung<u></u><u></u></p>
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