the latest on Openbook and brailling printed documents

Hi all,
Thanks to all of you who responded.
Here's the latest.
Bill from Arizona said, "I use and have used Openbook to do braille translation work at home.
It's fine if you want to braille personal things, but if you want to do public brailling, where there are paragraphs, get Megadots or Duxbury.  The reason is, When openbooks translator formats the braille, it's not in paragraphs, the braille is on the lefthand side of the page."
Another person emailed me saying, "Harry, I have used openbook for scanning, editing, and reading, and brailling for years, and never had to use Duxbury."
Now lastly, here's Tom's comments.
"I'm inclined to agree with the local dealer.

To test Braille translation in Open Book version 7, I attempted to open a 
book which I downloaded from Web Braille in .brf format and was told that 
there was no application on my system which supports that file type. True 
enough; I don't have Duxbury or any other Braille translation software 
installed. I then attempted to save a letter which I'd scanned. I went into 
the Save As dialog and opted to save the letter as a .brf file. It let me 
do that, but when I attempted to read the file using my Braille Note, all 
the Braille Note would say was "reached the end of file".

So, it would seem that Open Book will in fact translate text to Braille and 
vice versa, but only if it can find some sort of Braille translator 
elsewhere in the system; it does not have the ability to do it on its own.

Tom"
Now folks, can we help Tom out here?
I mean, some of you use it without Duxbury at all.
Just letting you all know the latest.
And Mark, thanks for telling me to let you know my findings, and that's the latest so far.
Harry


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