Grade 1 or Changes the Braille coding to
Grade 2
Grade 1 or Grade 2.
For Grade 1, each Braille cell
represents one letter of the
alphabet.
For Grade 2, a Braille cell can
symbolize a contraction or
single letter to represent an
entire word. This method is
language dependent.
This software offers Grade 2
Braille translations for
English, Danish, Dutch,
German, Norwegian, Spanish
and Swedish.
DesignCentral – Braille
tab
Lowercase
Only
Converts text to lowercase letters, which removes
capital letter indicators.
Show Empty Check to show all the empty dots in your text when it is
Dots
selected. Empty dots are not output.
CA Standard
Check to force the Braille coding to comply with the
California Braille standard, which requires that there be
a specific distance between Braille dots.
Diameter of each Braille dot.
Drill
Drill style leaves the design unchanged. Drill holes will
be drilled at each Braille point.
Drill Style
Fill
Fill style places a black border around the Braille and
compounds the objects so that the Braille dots are
holes.
Fill Style
Laser
Laser style places a black border behind the Braille and
assigns a radial gradient to the dots so that the center is
white and the circumference is black.
Laser Style
Converts Braille text back to normal text.
Edit
Click this button to edit the original text.
Working with Barcodes
You can convert normal text into Barcodes using Code 39 or Extended
Code 39.
Code 39 is an alphanumeric bar code. It can encode numbers 0-9, the
uppercase alphabet A-Z, Space, and then some symbols ( - . * $ / % + ). If
you need lowercase letters, there is also an Extended Code 39 that encodes
the 128 character ASCII character set by pairing existing Code 39 characters.
Converting Text to Barcode
1 Select the text.
2 From the Text menu, point to Barcode and select Barcode39
or Barcode39 Extended.
Once converted to Barcode, the text can not be resized or edited. Arc and Path
text can not be converted to Barcode.
Converting Barcode to Text
1 Select the Barcode.
2 From the Text menu, point to Barcode and select Barcode to
Text.
To Barcode
To Normal Text
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