Andre Majorel wrote in
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I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.

There are braille displays made for laptops. There is also at least one
laptop with a brailiedeisplay instead of a screen.

And there are PIMs with braille deisplays, at least on of wich runs Windows
CE, that can be used for reading manuals/books on the road. Unfortunately
they cost a lot more than ordinary PIMs.

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.

If it does a better job thad Adobe's own softare for this, I'd love to know
wich utility it is. Does it handle encrypted/locked PDFs as well?

/Jonas

On 2004-07-16, Jonas Eckerman wrote:
Andre Majorel wrote in
:

I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.

There are braille displays made for laptops. There is also at least
one laptop with a brailiedeisplay instead of a screen.

And there are PIMs with braille deisplays, at least on of wich runs
Windows CE, that can be used for reading manuals/books on the road.
Unfortunately they cost a lot more than ordinary PIMs.

OK. The state of the art seems to have advanced a bit since
then. How big is the Braille display, in terms of rows/columns ?

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.

If it does a better job thad Adobe's own softare for this, I'd love to
know wich utility it is.

It's pdftotext, from the Xpdf suite.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Does it handle encrypted/locked PDFs as well?

It has options to pass user and owner passwords, so I guess it does.

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.

Andre Majorel wrote in
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OK. The state of the art seems to have advanced a bit since
then. How big is the Braille display, in terms of rows/columns ?

There are different organizers with different sizes.

Here's a decent list of organizers and note takers:
http://www.youngopp.com/notetakers.htm

The same company also sells a bunch of braille displays:
http://www.youngopp.com/displays.htm

Note: I'm linking to the above company *only* because they seem to have a
pretty good selection of products. I have no idea as to how they are to
deal with.

/Jonas

On 2004-07-16, Jonas Eckerman wrote:
Andre Majorel wrote in
:

I used to work with a blind programmer who had a small Braille
terminal (1 row, 40 columns, as I recall). The thing was too big
to be carried around but I imagine a smaller version could be
made to go with a laptop.

There are braille displays made for laptops. There is also at least
one laptop with a brailiedeisplay instead of a screen.

And there are PIMs with braille deisplays, at least on of wich runs
Windows CE, that can be used for reading manuals/books on the road.
Unfortunately they cost a lot more than ordinary PIMs.

OK. The state of the art seems to have advanced a bit since
then. How big is the Braille display, in terms of rows/columns ?

I don't know about Adobe's plugin but I have a pdftotext
utility. If you want, I can take a shot at your PDF with it.

If it does a better job thad Adobe's own softare for this, I'd love to
know wich utility it is.

It's pdftotext, from the Xpdf suite.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Does it handle encrypted/locked PDFs as well?

It has options to pass user and owner passwords, so I guess it does.

--
André Majorel URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
Respect for government [...] and its symbols is fundamentally fascist.
-- William Sommerwerck, on the subject of ****ing on a national flag.