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Dotify Studio

Description

Dotify Studio is a cross platform GUI for creating, managing and embossing PEF-files, including upgrading from and downgrading to commonly used "braille" text formats.

Main Features

Supported embossers

Dotify Studio supports a range of embossers, including popular Index and Braillo embossers. Note however that several embossers are untested, due to lack of access and/or time.

For details, see the complete list of supported embossers by accessing the embosser drop down in Preferences/Emboss.

Translator Limitations

Unfortunately, only Swedish braille is supported when using the following menu item Import/Source document.... This is primarily due to missing braille translations.

Installation

Prerequisites for all Zip-distributions and any ready-to-run distribution version 0.6.1 or older

You must have Oracle Java version 8u40 or later installed on your machine. If you do not, you have to install that first.

Installing and Running

You can download a ready-to-run binary variant of this library from latest releases. See below for OS specific details.

If you prefer you can build the application yourself by running the following command in the source directory: gradlew build (Windows) or ./gradlew build (Mac/Linux). The built application can be found under build/distributions/.

Windows

Download the Windows installer from the latest releases and follow the instructions. When the installer has completed, you can start the software via the start menu or by double clicking on a PEF-file.

Note: If you install other software that opens files ending with .pef (such as Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Creative Suite) after Dotify Studio, you may have to reinstall Dotify Studio to restore the .pef file association to Dotify Studio.

macOS

Download the macOS package from the latest releases and open it. Drag and drop the application to the applications folder. Start the software by launching the application.

Linux

Start the software by launching the application.

Configuration

Before you can emboss a file for the first time, the embosser has to be configured. Go to the Preferences menu item to configure the embosser. Once the embosser has been fully configured, an option to generate a test document will be available. This document can be used to verify that the configuration works as intended.

Before you can convert a file for the first time, the target locale has to be configured. Go to the Preferences menu item to configure the target locale. Currently, the target locale must be sv-SE.

For details, see the User guide.

Help Resources

See the latest version of this documentation on https://github.com/brailleapps/dotify-studio/tree/master/docs