Braille Production

BANA Format Examples (retrieved from BANA Braille Formats 2016, updated for UEB) 

Software

• Abbyy Fine Reader
• Openbook
• Adobe DC
• Dolphin Easy Converter*

*Has a special option for drawing boxes around text/graphics to ignore when converting. Trust me, this is amazing.

•  Pictures in a Flash (PIAF)
•  Tactile Image Enhancer
•  Swell Form Machine

TIPS:

BANA Guide to Tactile Graphics

• Use Braille 29 font to hold your place
• Under View, click Gridlines for even placement/spacing
• Use ASCII chart when you need to update braille on an image
• Use Microsoft Paint for the few things you can’t manage in Microsoft Word-then import
• Save word documents as 97-2003 so that you can use the select/group feature
• Remember Ctrl+d will duplicate any drawn object selected
• Ctrl+d can duplicate sets of objects, as well–they don’t even have to be grouped
• Remember to ALWAYS save before translating
• Feel free to avoid translating by using Braille 29 font
• Work from the outside in–start with text boxes filled with Braille 29, and arrange them before other features
• Remember that you can remove the outline of a text box when you no longer need it, for stylistic reasons

STRATEGY:

Create an electronic bank of templates and resources to be used, re-used

Number lines

Graphs

2×3 tables

Create a bank of PIAF materials to be used and re-used