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.
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
.
Unfortunately, only Swedish braille is supported when using the following menu item Import/Source document...
. This is primarily due to
missing braille translations.
If you do not have Oracle Java version 8u40 or later installed on your machine, you have install that first.
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/.
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.
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.
Download the zip-file from the latest releases and unzip the application. Run the software with the script bin/dotify-studio
.
Run the software by double clicking the bin/dotify-studio
file.
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. For details, see the User guide.
See the latest version of this documentation on https://github.com/brailleapps/dotify-studio/tree/master/docs