Dotify Studio provides an accessible graphical user interface for creating, managing and embossing PEF-files.
Before you can emboss PEF-files, you must complete the setup. The menu item Preferences
opens a dialog with tabs.
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.
The Emboss
tab contains settings related to embossing.
Additional options will be presented when embosser has been selected. Once all required options has been set, you will be able to emboss documents.
Screenshot of Setup view.
The Manage paper
tab is used to define and manage custom paper formats.
To open a file, select the Open... menu option in the File menu.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Screenshot of Emboss view.
To see more information about the book, select About the book in the preview window.