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From: Ryan E. Benson
Date: Aug 16, 2012 1:33PM

Hi Ryan,

> Does anyone here know any programs that currently do that?
As somebody who has done this for a long time, I need some more information.

1- Why are you wanting to do this?
2- How complex of graphics are you doing, or foresee?

Re 1: I ask because I need to know if you are planning to do this as
an one-off and supplemental information (read: non-complex, and
doesn't have to be beautiful, kind of my second question) or are
looking to develop a professional-level service?

If you are doing the one-offs, the method Alex mentioned, will do the job.
> If you have the art as pic file, you could paste the pic into Word and use Tiger Software Suite's plugin to print the document with a Tiger embosser. If the pic is black and white, it will raise the dots at different heights and create a tactile image for the end user.

If you are needing to do the more professional level, I probably
wouldn't recommend that method, due to to limitations. We did the
following instead: scan the image at a good dpi (I think about 300).
Bring that into Corel Draw, draw the graph on another layer. Remove
pic. Make the needed labels via Duxbury, and import those to Corel.
Then emboss via a Tiger embosser. I forget why we chose Draw over
Photoshop, probably easier to pick up and use. Our Tiger could emboss
at 7 different levels, so we figured out what colors correlated to a
level, and represented various things by dot heights. Our audience was
some what limited, so we could explain the heights with them.

Did we use all 7 levels in a single image? No, most people can only
determine 4 levels of dots. Our star client only could feel 5 levels
when used in close quarters,

Duxbury? Why did you use that? We had a Braille font, but if you wrote
something in Arial, then switched it to the Braille font, it would be
messy. So we did the Duxbury trick.


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Ryan E. Benson


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Ryan Hemphill
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> Hey guys,
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> I'm working on a method of converting black and white graphics into Braille
> art. Does anyone here know any programs that currently do that?
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> Ryan
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