Just a comment here. Some programs perniciously bury themselves in the
registry, so a simple uninstall from the control panel may not be enough.
This might be what the tech support people were referring to, but don't know
for sure.
I wonder if some of the default translation settings were changed in the SR2
version.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic: Braille file translation problems with Duxbury
dbtWIN SR2
> it shouldn't hurt anything to uninstall the one you're using completely,
> and
> then reinstall the old version. I don't know much about old verses new
> versions of Duxbury only having 1 version now and just getting a Braille
> printer a couple weeks ago, but anyway. Some programs you don't have to
> uninstall the current version of to go back because they're so separate,
> but
> I think with Duxbury, you'd be better off completely removing it from your
> system and then going back, that should work.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:46 PM
> Subject: Off topic: Braille file translation problems with Duxbury dbtWIN
> SR2
>
>
>> Hi, all.
>>
>> I realize that this is pretty far "off topic", so please bear with me, or
>> feel free to delete the message if it is of no interest.
>>
>> Over the past few years, I have been very successfully using the Duxbury
>> 10.5 Braille translation software for both MS Word files, and Excel
>> spreadsheet files that are related to my teaching work.
>>
>> However, this Summer, I decided to upgrade to Duxbury version 10.5 SR2,
>> which was available on the Duxbury Systems web site.
>>
>> Ever since I have done this, I have had nothing but problems with Braille
>> translation. In MS Word files, dashes and other characters appear in the
>> Braille file for no apparent reason.
>>
>> In excel spreadsheet files, some real interesting things happen.
>>
>> For example, if I have a student grade that involves a certain number of
>> questions correct out of say fifty questions, it will print that raw
>> score
>> number ok in Braille, but then, for the student percent grade, no number
>> sign appears, and grade 2 contractions are used for certain letter
>> groupings.
>>
>> For example, the other day, a student percent grade of 74% was
>> translated
>> into the word "good", via the grade 2 braille contraction GD.
>>
>> I have been trying to work with the Duxbury tech support folks for
>> several
>> weeks on this problem, but to no avail.
>>
>> Of course, they are trying to get me to purchase the new 10.6 program,
>> which
>> I see no need for, since the original 10.5 worked so well.
>>
>> They say too that I should not try to go back in re-install the original
>> 10.5 program either, because that will create a real mess on my computer.
>>
>> So, I'm sort of at whitt's end here.
>>
>> Has anyone had similar experiences with version 10.5 SR2, and if so, how
>> did
>> you get around them?
>>
>> Would I really do great bodily harm to my computers here if I
>> un-installed
>> version 10.5 SR2, and went back to plain old 10.5?
>>
>> Sorry for the "off topic" nature of this post, but hey, I do occasionally
>> translate and print off ham-radio-related files in Braille too. (grin)
>>
>> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
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