Re: [g-a-devel] Gnome accessibility projects list

["Michael Zacherle" <zacherle szs uni-karlsruhe de>]

[Description of the Tiger Printer deleted]

> So you mean that if you submit a text document that has both text and
> dots, it will ink-print text, and emboss dots?  With unicode text, this
> is quite easy to do in CUPS (dot patterns are characters U+28xy).  The
> CUPS driver would just need an option for choosing whether to translate
> text into dots.

No, it's different. Let me make an example. You're opening Word or Corel 
Draw or In Design or something like that. Then you import a graphic, i.e. a 
picture of a dog. Then you make some text areas around the dog saying 
"head", "foot" and "body" and print the document on a Tiger. What the tiger 
prints is an embossed graphic with the picture of the dog, and additionally 
there will be areas with "head" etc. written in braille. Again, all this is 
being embossed. To complicate matters, there is indeed a "Tiger Ink" 
extension for one of the Tigers where the graphic is being printed as an ink 
graphic, and the text areas are being printed as "regular" text so that 
every sighted person can read that. This combination is extremely useful if 
you are i.e. teaching math and can lead the finger of your blind student to 
the important areas of the equation, even if you don't know a single braille 
letter. Yes, it's a bit hard to describe, but if you feel/see it you will 
understand it at once.

Ciao

Michael