Tutorials

T1.1 Installing Tiger Software Suite 3.0

This tutorial will guide you through installing TSS 3.0 which includes Tiger Formatter for Microsoft Word and Excel Tiger Translator Lite and Tiger Designer.

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T1.2 Introduction to the Tiger Formatter

This tutorial provides a tour of the Tiger Formatter functions for Microsoft Word. Formatter features page orientation fonts and Braille output will be discussed.

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T1.3 Using the Tiger Formatter in Microsoft Word

Use the Tiger Formatter in Microsoft Word or Excel for increased functions. You can access the Tiger Formatter from your main menu toolbar or by using the Tiger Toolbar with visual buttons. For more information on the tools available refer to Tutorial T1.2 Introduction to the Tiger Formatter. This tutorial explains how to use the basic features of the Tiger Formatter.

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T1.4 Prepare the Workspace and Save as a Template

This tutorial will explain how to create a basic template for your embossing needs. This saves the time of individually formatting a worksheet each time you create a document.

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T1.5 Setting a Custom Paper Size

ViewPlus Embossers have many pre-loaded paper sizes. However there are sometimes unique paper sizes that may not be included. This tutorial explains how to create custom paper sizes.

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T1.6 Setting or Changing the Paper Size in Microsoft Office

For a document to print correctly the settings in the Printer Properties must coincide with those in the Page Setup. This tutorial will walk you through correctly setting both your paper size and page setup to avoid incomplete printing.

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T1.7 Using the Tiger Translator Lite

The ViewPlus Translator translates standard text to Braille in three easy steps. You will find it is just like printing from your Windows based applications to your laser or inkjet printers—only now you have perfectly embossed texts and/or tactile graphics when you are finished.

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T1.8 Using the Tiger Toolbox

With the Tiger Toolbox you can easily adjust Media Type Braille Dot Height and Mode settings for your ViewPlus Desktop Series Embosser directly from your computer. The Tiger Toolbox will be installed with the ViewPlus Max Cub or Cub Jr. Embossers.

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T1.9 Dos and Donts of the Tiger Formatter

This tutorial provides basic information that will help navigate the Tiger Formatter. Following these Dos and Don’ts will ensure the easiest and efficient translation.

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T1.10 Drawing in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word offers an array of easy-to-use drawing tools. This tutorial will introduce a few of them. You will learn where each is located and how they are used to create and enhance your documents. Be sure to read and apply the great tips at the end of this tutorial.

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T1.11 Labeling with Text Boxes

This tutorial explains how to add text boxes as a labeling tool for graphics pictures or other elements in your document. Text boxes are a great tool for working with both text and graphics in the same document.

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T1.12 Using the Picture Toolbar in Microsoft Word

This tutorial will show how to insert a Clip Art picture into a document and adjust it for the best tactile results using the Picture Toolbar in Microsoft Word. This tutorial will be helpful for working with complex graphics that may need to be simplified for better tactile comprehension.

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T1.13 Printing to File

ViewPlus Embossers incorporate the Print to File function to serve many purposes. When you print to file an electronic document is created that shows exactly how the document would look if printed from a ViewPlus Embosser. The file will save with a suffix of “.prn”.

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T1.14 Using the Tiger Designer

Tiger Designer is a component of Tiger Software Suite that allows you to fine-tune documents before sending them to aViewPlus Embosser.Tiger Designer uses files with a .prn extension to show how a document will emboss displaying dots visually in grayscale on the computer screen. Use Tiger Designer with the ViewPlus Pro Ink Attachment to preview the ink and Braille combined view.

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T1.15 Creating Ink and Braille Documents in Tiger Designer

Tiger Designer can be used with new or existing files. To use Designer with an existing file follow the directions in Tutorial T1.12 Printing to File. If you prefer to use the Tiger Designer rather than Microsoft Word to create a document in Ink and Braille please follow use the following tutorial.

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T1.16 Creating Ink and Braille Documents in Microsoft Word

Using Microsoft Word and the ViewPlus Formatter you can easily create documents in ink and Braille with the touch of a button. Then print your documents using the Pro with Ink Attachment or Emprint from ViewPlus. You can also use the interline function to view the original text above Braille for ViewPlus Embossers without ink.

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T1.17 Printing Ink and Braille with Tiger Designer

This tutorial will teach you how to print a multiple page document in ink and Braille using the Tiger Designer Program.

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T1.18 Preparing a Scanned Image to Emboss

This tutorial walks you through the simple process of preparing a scanned image to emboss. With a ViewPlus Embosser and its included Tiger Software Suite not only is this possible it’s simple.

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T1.19 Creating Maps in Microsoft Word

This tutorial will covers basic features for creating tactile maps in Microsoft Word. Importing and editing graphics creating Text Labels and tracing are just some of the are key features in this tutorial.

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T1.20 Creating Tactile Graph Paper

This tutorial will cover how to create a quick and basic template of graph paper that can be adapted for drawing plots on or used blank for students to trace solutions to test questions.

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T1.21 Using the Tiger Formatter

This tutorial will teach you how to translate Microsoft Excel sheets using the Tiger Formatter. Formatter settings Braille output selection page scaling and set up are covered throughout this tutorial.

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T1.22 Creating Charts and Graphs

Excel is a speadsheet analysis program designed to organize and systematically examine data. Information is arranged into a grid of cells that can hold numbers text dates etc. and then is analyzed. In this tutorial we will use the Pie Chart style to create tactile graphic descriptions of sample data. The result will be displayed both in Braille and black ink.

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T1.23 Using Microsoft PowerPoint

With the help of Microsoft PowerPoint a variety of on-screen and online presentations as well as notes and handouts can all be easily made. A Microsoft PowerPoint presentation can take many different shapes and sizes depending on where and when it is used. This tutorial will explain how a complicated visual presentation can be adapted for embossing in just a few simple steps.

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T1.24 Printing From Braille Programs

This tutorial gives you directions on printing from Braille programs such as Duxbury/DBT to a ViewPlus Embosser. An additional DOS-based mode comes standard on your ViewPlus Embosser to enable you to print from these programs. The following tutorial walks you through changing these modes on the ViewPlus Pro Max Cub and Cub Jr.

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T1.25 Duxbury 10.5 Troubleshooting

Duxbury 10.5 was designed to let users continue to operate ViewPlus Embossers in Tiger or the Windows printer interface while still using the Duxbury interface designed for the traditional embosser’s DOS-based printer drivers. Duxbury created complex code to bridge the old embossing technology and ViewPlus’ Windows driver resulting in confusion in the software. To solve this problem ViewPlus edited its driver to enable embossing from Duxbury 10.5 without changing modes on the printer. New versions of the ViewPlus Embosser drivers have been added to our website for download.

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T1.26 Using Six-Key Braille Entry in Windows

This tutorial demonstrates how to directly enter Braille text in any Windows application using the ViewPlus Six-Key entry program available as a Beta test from ViewPlus Technologies.

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T1.27 Creating Labels to be Printed in Ink and Braille in Microsoft Word

This tutorial will explain how to create a custom label template in Microsoft Word to be printed in ink and Braille using the Emprint™ or the Pro Ink Attachment.

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T1.28 Creating Labels with the First Page in Ink

Follow these easy steps to create custom labels to be printed in ink and Braille on the ViewPlus Emprint or ViewPlus Pro Braille Embosser with Pro Ink Attachment.

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