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The Deliverables Continuation of the existing hard copy creation and production process. Use of existing hardware and software if possible. A system that can be sustained by existing organizational staff. Necessary support materials that do not require ongoing external support and assistance. The desired alternative formatsTRANSCRIPT
Production of Accessible
ProfessionalJournals
Ron StewartTechnology Advisor
Association on Higher Education and Disability
Today’s Discussion
A process developed to take a traditionally created and published professional journal and while maintaining the current process also produce:PDFDAISYMP3Text/RTF
The Deliverables
• Continuation of the existing hard copy creation and production process.
• Use of existing hardware and software if possible.
• A system that can be sustained by existing organizational staff.
• Necessary support materials that do not require ongoing external support and assistance.
• The desired alternative formats
Tools InvestigatedAdobe InDesign CS4 (CS3-CS5) *Various ePub readers*MS Word*Save as DAISY plug-in for MS WordDAISY PipelineDolphin EasyConverter*Dolphin ERE*Various DAISY software and hardware
players*
* Tools used in final process
Problems Encountered
All Styles from InDesign are lost.-Source file has to be restyled in Word
If Fonts are embedded in InDesign file is copy protected upon export
All tabular data, charts are converted to images.-Tables, charts, graphs and descriptive text need to be reestablished in Word- Must have Word source files.
For More Information
Ron StewartTechnology AdvisorAssociation on Higher Education and Disability
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