[nabs-l] Duxbury

[Sarah Jevnikar]

Hi Joe and all,
I have an Index Basic-D which as mentioned comes with WinBraille. I also
have Duxbury, which generally seems more user-friendly. The advantage of
WinBraille is that you can emboss documents directly from Microsoft Word if
you want. I haven't used any of the aforementioned translation tables, so I
can't compare the two products in that sense.

The embosser itself is decent: you can print double-sided if you choose and
it's easy to configure. It has speech output which helps, in spite of the
fact that the embosser has a Swedish accent. I am told it can Braille
graphics but I haven't tried it myself. It doesn't come with a
sound-reducing case like some embossers do, and is loud. However it has
always served my purposes and any issues I've had have been with the
software rather than the embosser itself.
Apologies for the usual verbosity. I hope that helped some though.
Sarah

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From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of David
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:59 PM
To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Duxbury

Hi,
Duxbury is possibly the most comprehensive Braille translator that I know
of. The Index embossers made by a company in Sweden come with a piece of
software called WinBraille, but I don't like the translation tables. Some of
the contractions are a bit off, as well as some of the Braille symbols.
That's just my opinion, though.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Joe Orozco
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:00 PM
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Subject: [nabs-l] Duxbury

Hello,

Is Duxbury the only Braille translation software out there?  I'm considering
the purchase of an embosser and want to factor in the cost of the
appropriate software to make that purchase complete.  Thanks, and any
recommendations on good embosser models is appreciated.

Joe Orozco

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