ÿþ<html> <head> <title>The Super Gemini Embosser and Duxbury DBT 11.1</title> </head> <body> <h1>The Super Gemini Embosser and Duxbury DBT</h1> <p>The <a href="http://www.nippontelesoft.com/english/gemini.htm">Nippon Telesoft Super Gemini</a> is a braille embosser that can also print inkprint in a bit-pattern, suitable for many languages. <p>This document describes a test at Duxbury Systems to support the print and the braille output, with Vietnamese inkprint and braille. <p><img src="images/online.jpg" alt="image of someone typing on a computer"> <img src="http://ati.gmu.edu/images/pictures/cat_main.jpg" width="130" height="100" alt="image of a braille page"> <img src="images/gemini.jpg" alt="image of the Gemini Embosser" width="120" height="104"> <p><hr /></p> <h3>DBT Software Version Information</h3> <p>The Super Gemini is a new model, <b>only supported by Duxbury Systems in DBT 11.1 sr3</b>. Here is the link: <a href="http://www.duxburysystems.com/product2.asp?product=DBT%20Win&level=major&action=up">download DBT 11.1 sr3 from the Duxbury Website</a>. <h3>Hardware</h3> <p>This is a picture of the original Gemini (not the Super Gemini): <br><img src="images/gemini.jpg" alt="image of the Gemini Embosser"> <br>The Super Gemini looks like the original Gemini, except that the logo on the right looks as follows: <br><img src="images/super_gem_label.jpg" alt="image of the Gemini Embosser"> <br>Unless you have a Super Gemini, you cannot run this test. <hr> <br><img src="images/usb_printer.jpg" alt="image of a USB Printer cable"> <br>Standard USB printer cable <hr> <p>Also we are using 9.5 by 11 inch paper, plus the <b>HP C6602A</b> black printer ink recommended for this unit. <p><hr> <h3>Installing the Gemini</h3> <p>We start by first downloading the USB drivers for the Gemini. These are found on this page: <a href="http://www.nippontelesoft.com/english/gemini.htm">http://www.nippontelesoft.com/english/gemini.htm</a> Search for the words <b>USBdriver download</b>. Save the zipped file file on your computer. Unzip the file, and make a note of the location of the unzipped directory, called <b>usbdrv</b>. <p>We are ready to install. Turn on the Gemini, and cable the Gemini to your computer. You should see an icon on the task bar that says "located new hardware". Click on it to start the installation. When it wants to find the installation directory, click on browse, and browse to the usbdrv directory. Everything should go automatically. When I did this on my system, I learned that the unit would operate through COM3 (this is an artificial port name to reference the Gemini through the USB connection). <p>You may find it necessary to always connect the Gemini through the same USB port each and every time to make sure everything keeps working. <p><hr> <h3>Setting Up the Gemini within DBT</h3> <p>Start DBT dated April 5th 2011 or later (see above). Use the <b>Global Menu</b>, and select <b>Embosser Setup</b> <p>Setting up an embosser is described in the <a href="http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/dbt11.1/the_menus/MENU_GLOBAL/global_embosser_setup.htm">DBT Help</a> <p>You need to select the embosser model of <b>Nippon Telesoft Super Gemini</b>. I set the connection to the Port <b>COM3</b> because that is the port name reported when I installed the Gemini USB driver software. You may need to select a different name depending on what is presented when you installed the Gemini (see above). <p>The connection works on 9600 baud, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, and no parity. These are also the dafaults for DBT. <p>Note: if you do not see <b>Nippon Telesoft Super Gemini</b> in the list of embossers, you might be running a version of DBT which is too old. <p><hr> <a name="interpoint"></a> <h3>A Word About Interline and Interpoint.</h3> <br><img src="images/Supergemini.jpg" alt="image of the DBT 11.1 sr3 Embosser Setup for the Gemini Embosser"> <img src="images/Supergeminismall.jpg" alt="image of the DBT 11.1 sr3 Embosser Setup for small font in the Gemini Embosser"> <p>Interline means having an inkprint line between each and every line of braille. Interpoint means having braille (or braille and print) on both sides of your paper. Happily, the Gemini can do both (though interpoint requires a manual operation of re-feeding the paper into the machine for the back side of each page). </p> <p>On the screen shots shown above, the Interpoint box is greyed out on the second screen. When you use the small spacing (small font), there is not enough space between the lines of braille for the braille to be embossed on the opposite side. This is the reason you cannot produce imterpoint output if you select small spacing.</p> <p>Please check these settings in the <b>Document</b>, Embosser Set up screen, not in the <b>Global</b>, Embosser Set up Screen. The Global Menu is holds the defaults for newly created documents. The <b>Document Menu</b> contains information on what will happen for this particular document.</p> <p>If you produce a 10 page document with interpoint, this only uses 5 sheets of paper. When you emboss, you get the "top" pages produced first. Remove these 5 pages, and flip them over and re-feed the paper in to produce the "bottom" pages. You will see a prompt from DBT on the screen. When you are ready, press the <b>Enter</b> key to finish the brailling job. Here are the precise steps:</p> <ul> <li>Get the document ready on DBT</li> <li>Inspect the Document, Embosser Setup screen for Interline and Interpoint</li> <li>Emboss the Document</li> <li>Wait for DBT to finish the first pass.</li> <li>Turn off the Power.</li> <li>Wind out the document, plus one additional blank page.</li> <li>Push down to rip out the <b>one-sided braille</b>.</li> <li>Wind the paper back, so you can entirely remove the source (blank) paper from the embosser.</li> <li>Turn the <b>one-side braille over</b>, and re-feed into the Embosser.</li> <li>Turn on the power.</li> <li>Press Enter to DBT, to resume embossing.</li> <li>Turn off the Power.</li> <li>Wind out the document.</li> <li>Push down to rip out the completed braille.</li> </ul> <p><hr> <p><img src="http://www.vietnamventure.com/images/vietnam/vietnam_map.gif" alt="image of a map of the nation of Vietnam" width="170" height="290"> <h3>The Vietnamese Test</h3> <p>To show DBT in action, we chose to produce a sample in the Vietnamese language. Vietnamese has a complex contracted braille system. Only DBT 11.1 can back translate from contracted Vietnamese to inkprint. Thus almost all the features shown, use of the Super Gemini and working in Vietnamese, and very new software features.</p> <p>In DBT (with the embosser selection process closed), I type control-N to select a new Template. I select <b>Vietnamese - Basic</b>. You might have to Select the Region Asia first, then select Vietnamese. <p>At random, we chose a Vietnamese publication. <a href="http://nguoi-viet.com">http://nguoi-viet.com</a> (Our apologies if this text is not considered politically or socially acceptable.) I clipboarded a paragraph, and pasted this into the inkprint screen of DBT (not a braille screen). Since we already told DBT that this document is Vietnamese, I just type control-T to translate inkprint into contracted Vietnamese braille. <p>I then select <b>Document, Embosser Setup</b> to make sure that the high-light is on <b>Nippon Telesoft Super Gemini</b>. Also make sure the checkbox for <b>Interline Print</b> is checked. If this box is not checked, you will only get braille output with no inkprint. When I am ready, I close the Embosser Setup screen.</p></p> <p>For this test (see the photo), there is no braille on the other side of the paper. If I wanted braille on the other side of the paper, I would also have checked <b>Emboss in Interpoint</b> as well.</p> <p>I make sure the Gemini is ready to receive data. Here, I recommend that the user be familiar with all of the instructions on the use of the braille device, to avoid any issues. <p>On DBT, I press control-E, then return, to emboss the current text. I should get inkprint Vietnamese and braille Vietnamese produced on the Gemini. <p><hr> <h3>Sample Taken from Wikipedia (Vietnamese) article about the Battle of Dien Bien Phu</h3> <p>URL: http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%E1%BA%BFn_d%E1%BB%8Bch_%C4%90i%E1%BB%87n_Bi%C3%AAn_Ph%E1%BB%A7</p> <p><font size="+1">¿n cuÑi nm 1953, Chi¿n tranh ông D°¡ng ã kéo dài 8 nm, Pháp lâm vào th¿ bË Ùng trên chi¿n tr°Ýng, quân Ùi cça chính phç HÓ Chí Minh ã gi£i phóng nhiÁu khu vñc rÙng lÛn ß Tây Nguyên, khu 5, các tÉnh Cao B¯c L¡ng,..và nhiÁu khu vñc ß Óng b±ng B¯c bÙ. Chính phç Pháp muÑn tìm mÙt gi£i pháp hòa bình có thà ch¥p nh­n °ãc à ch¥m dét cuÙc chi¿n nh°ng m·t khác hÍ muÑn duy trì quyÁn lãi t¡i ông D°¡ng. Pháp bÕ nhiÇm tÕng chÉ huy Henri Navarre sang ông D°¡ng tìm ki¿m mÙt chi¿n th¯ng quân sñ quy¿t Ënh à làm c¡ sß cho mÙt cuÙc th£o lu­n hòa bình trên th¿ m¡nh</font></p> <br /><img src="images/viet_sample.jpg" alt="image of the Gemini output page"> <p><hr> <!-- <p><img src="http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/dbt11.1/google-trans.jpg" align="middle" alt="Logo for Google Translate" title="Logo for Google Translate" width="140" height="110" /></a> <h3>A Word About Help and Google Translate</h3> <p>DBT uses Google Translate to offer <a href="http://www.duxburysystems.com/documentation/dbt11.1/index.asp?Language=EN&ScreenReader=0">Help in Many Languages</a>. This help may be frustrating, it might offer insight if English is not an easy language for you. For example, here is the <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.duxburysystems.com%2Fdocumentation%2Fdbt11.1%2Findex.htm&sl=en&ie=UTF-8&tl=ja">Japanese Help</a>. <p><hr> --> <h3>An Important Note About DBT</h3> <p><a href="http://www.duxburysystems.com/dbt.asp"><img src="http://www.duxburysystems.com/images/dbt111.jpg" /></a></p> <p>When DBT translates the inkprint into braille, it does not have access to the inkprint. It only looks at the new braille data. When it needs to make inkprint, it uses its own translation from braille to inkprint to make the inkprint. This might introduce errors in the inkprint. Duxbury Systems always strives to meet customer expectations.</p> <p><hr><p> </body> </html>