Hi Terry, Peter, and others,
        Thanks a lot for your information about the embossers. My problem now is
that I am getting a bit contradictory information. Someone said that "Tiger
Advantage" was the only printer that could print graphics, while Terry said
most embossers that have a graphic mode option can do it. So I feel a bit
confused! The thing is, I don't want a program in which I can draw things
and then print it, I want to print things that my Sound forge program
produces. Can I do this with a normal embosser?
        Thanks for your clarifications.
                        Sincerely,
                        Séverine

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From: terryk <[log in to unmask]>
To: Severine Renard <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Graphical embossers
Date: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:08 PM

Dear Severine;

Most modern braille embossers have a 'graphical' mode which will do what
you
require, in fact the Index range of embossers have selectable 'graphic'
modes, whereby the distance between the braille dots can be selected from
the standard 2.5mm between dots to either 2.0mm or 1.6mm between dots.

The graphic mode, or modes are selected by various 'escape' codes being
sent
to the embosser by the computer. Braille characters are then produced with
the dots spaced apart as selected, and no space between lines.

We have software called Picture Braille, a DOS program, which is very much
like a standard 'Paintbrush' program, but will send it's output to a
braille
embosser. Various shapes, circles, squares, triangles, lines etc., can be
clicked on the PictureBraille screen, or you can draw freehand with a
mouse,
and also braille or text labels can be pasted on the screen, and then the
resulting graphic can be embossed with an embosser.

Regards

Terry Kenaghan
Optek Systems

----- Original Message -----
From: Severine Renard <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 7:10 AM
Subject: Graphical embossers


> Hi,
>     I would like to be able to print a graphical file as raised lines.
> Can any embosser do this or do I need a special software?
>     I read the description of your Nomad Mentor, that sounds great but I
> don't think it is what I need because I don't want to draw the pictures
> myself, I just want to print in Raised lines something which is already
> on my screen. Precisely, I would like to print spectograms which should
> look like curves; and maybe a little bit of text like the sentence that
> goes with the curve.
>     Although, I am in the US right now; Do you ship matterial there? If
> you have an embosser able to do that, could you send me the price and
> the technical information for it?
>     Thanks for your help,
>
>             Sincerely yours,
>             Severine Renard
>


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