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Dotify Studio User Guide

Dotify Studio provides an accessible graphical user interface for creating, managing and embossing PEF-files.

Preferences

Before you can emboss PEF-files, you must complete the setup. The menu item Preferences opens a dialog with tabs.

General

The General tab contains a couple of basic settings, such as the target locale used when converting source documents into PEF and the preview font used when viewing a PEF-file.

Emboss

The Emboss tab contains settings related to embossing.

  1. First select your Device.
  2. Next you need to select the Embosser make and model. Given the device name above, it might seem apparent what the choice should be, but the application cannot interpret this information. It is very important that you select the correct embosser make and model, otherwise the application will not be able to emboss your documents correctly.

Additional options will be presented when embosser has been selected. Once all required options has been set, you will be able to emboss documents.

Setup view

Screenshot of Setup view.

Manage paper

The Manage paper tab is used to define and manage custom paper formats.

Open a file

To open a file, select the Open... menu option in the File menu.

Find files

If you keep your PEF-files below a common folder, they can be found using the metadata supplied with the PEF-files. For example by entering the title of a document.

To do this, open the search tab in the tools area, select the Show search menu option in the Window menu. By default the "user home folder" is scanned, but it can be changed by clicking the Select folder button.

Import source documents

A source document is a document that isn't braille yet, but can be. To import source documents, use the menu item Import/Source document....

Note that the target locale must be sv-SE for this to work.

Import braille text files

A braille text file is a text file containing line breaks and form feeds to indicate where lines and pages end. In addition, a small set of characters is used, essentially corresponding one-to-one with a braille cell. To import braille text files, use the menu item Import/Braille text files....

If you have a text file that is plain text, but not braille, the above option should be used instead.

Exporting

Exporting a file as text can be done by using the menu item Export. This will export the file as text, using the same translation that is used when rendering the preview.

Embossing

The menu item Emboss opens an emboss dialog. Review the document information to verify that you are embossing the correct document.

To emboss a range of pages, a single volume or multiple copies, set the corresponding option.

To emboss, click Emboss.

Emboss view

Screenshot of Emboss view.

To see more information about the book, select About the book in the preview window.