Duxbury News
Duxbury on the Road - Upcoming Shows and Trainings
Please come and see us when we are on the road:
| Name | Date | Location |
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| CSUN | Feb 27-Mar 3 | San Diego CA |
| CTEBVI | March 15-18 | Los Angeles CA |
| Sight City | May 4-6 | Frankfurt Germany |
George Bell 2012 Calendar Files
Braille 2012 Calendar files available for DBT users. (zip file for download)
Thanks to George Bell of Techno-Vision Systems Ltd. for creating these and making them available!
Introducing DBT 11.1
Introducing
DBT 11.1sr3
2011-12-23 (2011-12-23)
This service release addresses the following issues:
Languages and Braille:
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Afrikaans braille to print now supported (Afrikaans print to braille has been supported for years). |
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Armenian (Eastern and Western) print-to-braille translations have been refined. |
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Czech print to braille has fixes for some of the accented letters. |
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Mathematics braille translation for British math is improved. |
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English has improved handling of quotation marks. |
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German print to braille has fixes for several contractions. |
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Icelandic has better handling of emphasis. |
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The print-to-braille and the braille-to-print translations for the languages of India have been improved and have been made more consistent. |
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Punctuation and numbers are handled better in the Korean translator. The Korean braille to print translator has been substantially improved. |
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Portuguese now supports hyphenation. |
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Russian (and other Cyrillic languages) have revised logic for punctuation within numbers. |
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Swedish now handles hard spaces. |
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Extensive improvements in Filipino/Tagalog braille to print. |
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Tigrinya (a major language of Ethiopia) is now supported. |
Newly Added Embossers and Embosser Support:
- Index V4 Embossers
- Enabling Technology Phoenix Embosser
- Index Braille Box Embosser
- Braillo 300 Embosser
- Braillo 650 S&F Embosser
- Braillo graphics for Braillo 200 and Braillo 300 (Limited Support)
Other Notable Features and Fixes of SR3:
- New version of SWIFT works with 64-bit builds of MS Word 2010.
- Improved imports of Word docx format files, including proper handling for print page breaks.
- Insertion of GOODFEEL music files, a feature which had stopped working as of version 11.1, has been restored.
- Improvements to the new DBT 11.1 table handling functions including files that consist solely of very large tables.
- Greater overall program stability, especially in table processing.
- Expanded support of HTML exports: varieties of emphasis, additional characters, and support for tabular material.
- Support for a new file format created by MegaDots 2.5. This allows importing Braille Word files using the BANA/2010 template.
DBT 11.1sr2 / 2011-5-03 (2011-5-04)
This is primarily a maintenance release, but addresses the following issues:
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The DBT table formatter now handles tabular input from Scientific Notebook and Infty Reader. |
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Reliability improvements while switching between print and braille views of tabular material. |
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Arabic braille-to-print now supports contracted braille. |
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Mathematics braille translation improvements for British, American, and UEB math. |
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Dzongkha table now includes the 2010 Code Revision. |
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Tamil table has minor improvements. |
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Armenian (Eastern and Western) print-to-braille translations have more improvements. |
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JAWS scripts have stability and usability improvements: the translated line voice has been set to be a bit slower than the normal reading voice. |
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Nippon Telesoft "Super Gemini" embosser is supported. This unit embosses braille and prints inkprint for many languages. |
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The DBT Installer improves the migration of embosser definitions "for all users" from previous DBT versions for Windows operating systems with user account controls (Vista and Windows 7). |
DBT 11.1sr1 / 2011-3-2 (2011-3-4)
This is primarily a maintenance release, but addresses the following issues:
- Some systems where Authorization could fail has been resolved. It should now be possible for existing licensed users to trial 11.1 for 45 days.
- An obscure hyperlink issue affecting Word 2007 and 2010 imports has been resolved.
- Additional UK/BAUK braille math matters using Word and MathType have been resolved. UK/BAUK math users are advised to upgrade to this version. Please also note that all our testing has been done using the latest version 6.7a of MathType, and users are advised to upgrade where possible.
- A number of changes have also been made to some of the non-English language translation tables to resolve issues reported from users. May we take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your feedback.
- Window-Eyes screen reader users should look out for an announcement from GW Micro regarding enhanced access to DBT 11.1 (SR1)
- Support for the yet to be released Cosmo braille embosser is included.
- A new File, Save As" choice has been added: HTML. You can open this HTML file in Microsoft Word. This new "Save As" choice is useful for exporting a file that does not use the Roman alphabet.
DBT 11.1 / 2011-1-7 (2011-1-18)
Here is a list of what's new since DBT 10.7 SR1:
- Imports MS Word 2007 and 2010; MS Excel 2007 and 2010 files
- Imports Open Office Writer & Open Office Calc files
- Now supports over 130 languages for braille translation
- Table
importer & Braille tabular material formatter:
- Imports tables and offers multiple braille table styles including automatic selection of the optimal style
- Allows easy change between table styles
- Supports differences in table formatting for different braille codes
- Improves Math support in many ways: better importer, better translation, now supporting spatial layout for matrixes
- Lets the user select one math translator for all file imports (use Nemeth with Hindi or British Math with Nigerian languages, etc.)
- Allows Switching Braille Tables inside of a document to combine multiple braille systems in a single document.
- Improves functionality for DAISY & NIMAS and other XML document files.
- Now provides back translation (braille to print) as well as print to braille for most braille translators
- Includes New Learning Tables to assist & support approved braille teaching courses: 2 for BANA, 3 for BAUK/UKAAF and 2 for UEB. NOW listed in DOCUMENT menu.
- Offers a low cost print & braille solution – The TranSend SE: Software version of TranSend is available for licensing from Enabling Technologies
- Organizes Translation tables by region
- Refines and updates over a dozen translation tables
- Features New Translation Help
- Adds support for new embossers including the NEW COSMO.
- Improves handling of many current embossers
- Strengthens support for JAWS screen reader
Click here for the full list of changes
Microsoft Word Files -- a Key Starting Point for Duxbury DBT
The bullet point says that DBT Now Imports Word 2007 and Word 2010 files. What does this mean to you? It makes all the standard and new features of Duxbury DBT easier to access and more useful to you! For example, you can:
It makes everything else that Duxbury DBT more useful to you! For example:- Use Susan Christensen's BANA Templates with Word 2007 and Word 2010 files.
- Import Tabular Material from Word files, including Word 2007 and Word 2010 files.
- Import Asian text, including Hindi, Korean, Japanese, and others from Word 2007 and Word 2010.
- Import MathType equations from Word 2007 and Word 2010 files.
- Do what you want to do with DBT; but now you can start with text from Word 2007 or Word 2010.
New Language Support
"Now supporting over 130 languages for braille translation." This release dramatically widens the international scope of languages in the Duxbury Braille Translator. Generally this includes the first -- and usually the second -- language for every nation of Europe and Asia. Yes! DBT 11.1 can do Chinese braille!
If your task is to make braille for a language that DBT 11.1 supports, you now have a modern, powerful tool for producing braille, with all the facilities of the Duxbury DBT. You are free to use whatever embosser you want. And you have the reassurance that Duxbury is committed to supporting your language, and helping to meet your needs.
DBT 11.1 is the key software power behind the new TranSend SE. The TranSend SE produces both print and braille on the same sheets of paper, and it is purchased from Enabling Technologies. The large number of braille back translators in Duxbury DBT 11.1 allow the TranSend SE to work with an impressive list of languages.
If you need to make braille for a language that Duxbury has supported for years, supporting new languages may not seem so important. However, experience has shown that each population has unique needs, and meeting those needs can improve the handling for all languages. For example, many valuable features of the file importer grew out of the needs of those who speak other languages.
Better Support for Mathematics
A major effort with this release has been to better handle the importing and translation of mathematical equations:
- The import and translation of mathematical equations is a major focus of DBT 11.1. Look for:
- Improved import for MathType 6.5, MathType 6.6, and
- Math Type imports from Word 2007/Word 2010
- Improved import and math translation for British Mathematics
- Spatial layout for Matrices
- Better fractions, including mixed numbers, in-line fractions, and diagonal fractions
- Better handling of the $$ start and end math markup. This should improve the handling of files from Infty Reader
Internationalization: Now Adding a Swedish User Interface
You can now read the menus and prompts of Duxbury DBT in Swedish, plus over 10 other languages.
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Italian |
| Korean |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) |
| Russian |
  | Spanish |
| Swedish |
Duxbury Braille Translator: The industry leading international braille translator for anyone from the casual user to the power user, just got a whole lot better!
