>Hi all,

> My employer is producing educational material. Most of this material is in
>Adobe PageMaker format. They use Adobe PageMaker since they can give the
>file straight to the publishers who then print the material. My employer is
>willing to give blind students material in electronic format. When the
>material is text, there is no problem. One can convert the pagemaker
>material to Word or HTML without any problems. The word conversion involves
>using some kind of text tool to copy the text of the document to the
>clipboard and then to word.

>Math is a problem. Firstly, the equations are written as images since they
>use math symbols. Then they are in pagemaker. Add to that that even when
>Word is used, people use the equation editor specially for symbols in
>Chemistry.

>How do I make all this material accessible? If I suggest using software such
>as scientific notebook then 2 questions will be asked;
>1. What will happen to the publishing of printed material? They wont want to
>do double work that is enter the material once in scientific notebook or
>similar software and once in PageMaker.

>2. How will the student get scientific notebook?

>I do not have an answer to the first question and as for the second, it is
>unlikely that a student will be able to spend money in purchasing the
software.

>Pranav


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