[gui-talk] daisy files

Scott Spaulding spaulding.scott at gmail.com
Sun Jul 16 15:05:49 CDT 2006


The files have .xml, .smil, .ncx and .opf as their file extensions.

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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of David Andrews
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] daisy files

What are the extensions on the files you g4et?

Dave

At 10:02 PM 7/15/2006, you wrote:
>I beg to disagree. I tried using the "Victor Reader Bookshare Edition"
>software to play the files and it won't work. I am not getting the 
>files from bookshare, I'm getting an email from NFB Newsline. I have 
>tried 3 programs as of now and cannot get the files to show up. In 
>addition to the victor reader bookshare edition, I've tried Amis and
Easereader.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>On Behalf Of David Andrews
>Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 10:56 PM
>To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] daisy files
>
>The program he got from bookshare will read the newsline newspapers, 
>because they are coming from bookshare, not from newsline directly,  
>Bookshare gets them from Newsline, and puts them into daisy 3 format and
distributes them.
>
>Dave
>
>At 01:59 PM 7/13/2006, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>I think Scott's saying that he has Daisy readers already, two of them, 
>>which he got in connection with his membership in both RFD&D and 
>>Bookshare.  The problem is that these readers seem to be restricted to 
>>working only with files associated with those two organizations, one 
>>for one, the other for the other, and that he can't use either of them 
>>to read the many other Daisy files available to him, such as something 
>>from Newsline.  Am I correct in thinking that's what you're asking, Scott?
>>
>>No, I don't know the answer to the problem.  I just wondered if there 
>>was a misunderstanding here.
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
>>To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:33 AM
>>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] daisy files
>>
>>
>>There is a Victor Reader software player in the Tools section of
Bookshare.
>>This is available to Bookshare members.  It is also possible to have 
>>the Bookshare unpack program create HTML files, which are quite 
>>readable in a web browser.
>>
>>Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
>>Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>>Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Scott Spaulding
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 1:44 PM
>>> To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
>>> Subject: [gui-talk] daisy files
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>     I am wondering what my options are for reading daisy files. I 
>>> have Ease Reader software on my computer that I got through RFB&D 
>>> and I have Victor Reader Bookshare edition, but I can't get any 
>>> daisy files that didn't come from RFBD or Bookshare to play on 
>>> either of them. I signed up for the email delivery of Newsline 
>>> papers, so now I get daisy files of my favorites, but I can't figure 
>>> out how to play them. I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions.
>>> If I need to have additional software, is there anything free that I 
>>> can download?
>>>
>>> Scott Spaulding
>>> HYPERLINK 
>>> "mailto:spaulding.scott at gmail.com"spaulding.scott at gmail.com
>>> www.angelfire.com/ky3/scott_spaulding
>>> Skype ID:blakestone55
>>>
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