Tiger Software Suite 2.0

Table of Contents
I. Preface
	-	Preface
II. Tiger Formatter
	-	Introduction
	-	Installation
	-	Operation with MS Word and Excel
	-	Special Features in MS Excel
III. Tiger Designer
	-	Introduction
	-	Creating a File
	-	Navigation in the Tiger Designer
	-	Printing from the Tiger Designer
IV. Tiger Translator Lite
	-	Introduction
	-	How to Use
V. Support
	-	Introduction
	-	Support Packages

Chapter II: Tiger Formatter


A.	Introduction

	Unlike DotPlus™ Braille, standard braille is a code without a one-to-one relationship to screen characters. Consequently it is necessary to translate text if standard braille is desired. ViewPlus newest application, The Tiger Formatter, is a Text-to-Braille Translator and Formatter for MS Word and Excel. The features include: Translation of multiple languages simultaneously (If the Braille tables for other languages are installed.) Display of original text above braille characters Maintainence of your special text formatting & graphics Adjustment of character size and line spacing automatically The Tiger Formatter is not an independent executable program. In other words, TigerFormatter cannot be started on its own like Notepad, TigerTranslator Lite, or the former VPTranslator can be started. Rather, once it is installed, it works in the background, in conjunction with Microsoft Office applications.

B.	Installation

	The Tiger Formatter must be installed and activated before it can be used. Please be sure that all applications, particularly MS Word and MS Excel, are closed before the installation is begun. During installation you will be asked to type in your user name and to accept the license agreement displayed on the screen. Please read it carefully as you are going to be bound by its terms. Type in your user name remembering that it has to be the same for any of the Tiger applications you'll be using and registering. This simplifies the registration process so, for example, when you register a particular language in Tiger Formatter, it will also be automatically registered and recognized in Tiger Translator Lite.

C.	Operation with MS Word and Excel

	When you start MS Word or MS Excel after installing the Tiger Formatter, you will see a new menu tab, "Tiger," in the main menu. You might also see a new command bar consisting of several command buttons. These buttons are Tiger command shortcuts. They duplicate the most common commands available in the Tiger main menu. You can hide or unhide this bar by going to Microsoft's View menu, then Toolbars and then checking or unchecking Tiger. Figure 1. Tiger command bar Clicking on the Tiger main menu tab (or pressing Alt-G) pulls down the Tiger menu options. Figure 2. Tiger menu options Formatter Settings - Opens a dialog box with several groups of settings. Figure 3. Tiger Formatter Settings *Primary Language group:* This group has three combo boxes Language: Shows all languages that have been registered and the one currently selected. Braille Type: Permits choice of Computer Braille, Non-contracted Braille, and other options for some languages Translatable Font: Permits user to select the screen font to be used for primary language translation. Do not choose “any font” unless everything in the document is to be translated identically. *Secondary language group:* Has the same three combo boxes shown in Primary Language option. Activated by checking “Translate a second language.” Used to select a different screen font to permit portions of the text to be translated either into another type of Braille or for another language to be translated into the proper Braille for that language. To fully use the capabilities of this function an additional language must be registered. *Tertiary Language group:* Has the same three combo boxes to permit a third language or type of Braille to be indicated by a third screen font. Activated by checking “Translate a tertiary language.” To fully use the capabilities of this function a third language must be registered. *Format group:* The options in this group allow you to preserve certain formatting in your document after translation. Preserve Italics - If for example, you desire your text to retain italics after translation, check the box with the mouse, spacebar, or hot key Alt-I. Preserve Bold - The same can be done to preserve bold. Preserve Underline - The same can be done to preserve underline. The hot key is Alt-U. Translate Headers of Footers - When checked, headers and footers will be translated. Make sure that "Remove headers" is not checked. Remove Headers - When checked, this will delete headers. Remove Footers - When checked, this will delete footers. Show Original Page Numbers - This will insert the original page numbers in the header of translated pages, but will remove the existing headers if any. If a translated page has contents that come from two original pages, a line will be inserted in between to serve as a separator, and an Original Page Number will be inserted to the right of that Line. *About:* Opens a window showing the credits, Formatter version, and the list of languages you have registered. *Add Language: Clicking this button will open a dialog box allowing you to select and register additional languages. In order to register an additional language you need a unique license number. This number is assigned by ViewPlus Technologies when you purchase a license to use the desired language. If you need assistance registering your additional or primary language(s) please contact ViewPlus Technologies (www.viewplus.com). Interline Font:* This group has two combo boxes. The first box allows the selection of the font to be used for the interline font. The second box sets the size of the interline font. *OK and Cancel buttons:* OK will save the parameters you've selected and close the Format dialog box. Cancel will restore the previous Formatter settings and close the Format dialog box. In MS Excel, the last four checkboxes do not apply. Formatter for Excel will not translate the original headers or footers, but it will insert the translated File name in the center header, the translated Sheet Name into the left footer, and the translated page number into the right footer. The Tiger Customized Print Dialog must be used for printing. Format Document - Clicking this command will translate the text in your document into Braille. All text is translated except text in any Braille font or any Tiger font. So previously translated parts or anything entered by hand in a Braille font are not translated, nor are the Tiger fonts that emboss as DotsPlus Braille. Any MS Word document can be translated into Braille by Tiger Formatter but the user might want to do some preliminary editing of some documents prior to using the Formatter. It is also possible to edit the document after it has been formatted into Braille, but it might be easier to edit it before. Often documents are prepared using a small font such as Arial, size 10. An easy way to prepare a document would be to change all fonts in the document into a font with the same size as the Braille font, for example, Courier New, size 29. This simple operation will give the user a good approximation of what the Braille text would look like and whether any of the formatting options need to be changed. Pre-editing is likely to be even more useful for a document that has many features like headers and/or footers, text boxes, tables, or when the interline option is turned on. It is best to avoid translating documents with lengthy headers and footers. MS Word will automatically resize tables to accommodate longer text or larger font size even though the result may not be expected. MS Word will not change the size of text boxes, so it is a good idea to resize them appropriately to fit the Braille font text. It is also best to avoid multiple-line text in text boxes, tables, and footers and headers. Any text that is a part of a graphics object in the document is out of reach for the Formatter and will not be translated into Braille. If it is desired to have such contents translated, the best thing to do is to superimpose a textbox onto the part of the graphic containing the text to be translated. The interline text option does not apply to footers and headers, but it does apply to tables and text boxes. Remember that interline text is always one line of original text placed above the Braille text line. There is also always one line of original text for one table cell entry or for one textbox entry. Thus if any table cell or textbox has more than one line of Braille, the corresponding interline text will still have just one line. That's why it is even more important to avoid multiple-line text in table cells and text boxes when the interline option is turned on. Format Selection - Translates any text that has been selected into Braille. Interline Original Text: If this option is checked, a print version of the text will be added on top of each line of the translated Braille version of the text. The size of this font can be set in the Settings menu. Use this option only if you have a ViewPlus embosser that prints ink as well as embosses. Caution: Once text is translated by clicking the Format button, one cannot remove the ink overlay by unchecking the “Interline Original Text” checkbox. Show Braille dots: When checked, the translated text is shown as Braille dots. The screen display can be changed to ASCII or Braille dots by checking or unchecking this option after translation. Show Braille as ASCII: When checked, the translated text is shown as ASCII characters. The screen display can be changed to ASCII or Braille dots by checking or unchecking this option after translation. Orientation -Provides choice of Portrait, Landscape, or Inverse Landscape. The first two settings have the same meaning and action as in a standard Page Setup dialog. The Inverse Landscape setting will emboss your document upside down as compared to the standard Landscape mode. When using paper with binder holes, standard landscape mode orients the document so the top is on the binder hole side whereas Inverse Landscape orients the document so the bottom is on the binder hole side. Inverse landscape is primarily useful for embossing documents that are several pages wide such as wide Word or Excel documents that can be left together when embossing tractor feed paper. Print: Windows standard print dialog permits user-friendly printing on ViewPlus embossers. The Orientation option and options in the Printer properties Tiger Tab (e.g. magnification) are automatically set correctly - something the user must do if the standard Word Print item is selected. There are special instructions for printing from Excel. Print Preview: Permits one to preview the printout visually.

D.	Special Features in MS Excel

	Excel spreadsheets will translate and be formatted as they are in MS Word. The cells will automatically expand to fit the larger Braille font. If you want to use the Chart Wizard function to create a chart, selecting the option to place the chart on a new worksheet is recommended. Charts that are part of the original data sheet cannot be translated. That means the chart will be found on a different tab and the formatter will be able to translate the fonts in the chart. However, if the Chart Sheet is the active sheet, the Tiger menu will be hidden. In this case, you will have to use the command buttons on the new command bar to do formatting, printing, etc. If a sheet is a chart sheet, Formatter will: Translate Pie, Column, Bar, Star, and Doughnut charts Translate Chart Titles, x-Axis Title, y-Axis Title, Data Labels, x-Axis category names in Column Chart, y-Axis category names in Bar Chart Formatter will NOT: Translate values or legends. The part that is not translated will be shown in Computer Braille font. Once you have formatted an Excel worksheet, a copy of the original sheet will be saved, and there will be two new sheets labeled Braille Sheet and Ink Sheet. If you also have a chart, the original chart will be saved plus there will be a sheet labeled Chart Braille and Chart Ink. The Ink sheets may be used for printing interline Braille. Interline Original Text: Will reformat the Ink Sheet so that the column width of the Ink Sheet is adjusted to that of the corresponding Braille Sheet. If the Ink sheet is a Chart sheet, will adjust the width and height of each Chart element so that they have the same dimension as those in the Braille chart sheet. Will perform reformatting whenever the Braille Sheet's format is changed and this menu item is clicked (or the corresponding button on the new command bar is clicked). Therefore, if the user sees a need to adjust the column width (or Chart dimensions) in the Braille sheet after the translation, he/she can do so with a simple click, the Ink sheet is also reformatted accordingly. Print - Will use a customized printer dialogue for printing Braille sheets. Figure 4. Tiger Excel Printer Dialog Printer - List of Viewplus embossers installed on your local computer. Print to File Checkbox - Check this box if you want to print the file to a Tiger Designer file and preview it there before you print to a Viewplus embosser Print What - Specify what you want to print. Active sheets - Will print all the selected sheets in the current window. Selection - Will print all the selections in all the selected sheets. (NOTE: if you have selections in multiple pages, only the selected area for the active sheet will be used, even if you have selected different areas in other selected sheets. For example, if sheet 1 has A5 to D5 selected, sheet 2 has A10 to C10 selected, and sheet1 is the active sheet but both sheets are selected to be printed, then on sheet2, the selected area will automatically be changed to A5 to D5). If you have multiple selections in one sheet, each selection will be printed on a separate sheet. Entire workbook - All the sheets (ordinary sheets and chart sheets) will be printed. Print Mode Emboss - Emboss Braille text only. Ink - When emboss is checked, will print ink between lines of Braille dots (not applicable here). 2 in 1 - Will print a Braille page, followed by an Ink page. The final result is that you can see both ink and the Braille inside a cell (or in chart). NOTE: If an ink-attached printer is selected, all 3 checkboxes will be enabled; otherwise, only Emboss is enabled. The user should set the paper size on the braille sheet and the ink sheet will automatically be set for the same size paper. Copies - Select the number of copies you want to print. NOTE: When printed in 2 in 1 mode, both the Braille Sheet and the Ink Sheet need to be sent, and they must have the same page break settings to allow the ink at the correct, desired position. Currently, only the Braille Sheet's setting is used, so you need to edit the page break settings on the Braille Sheet. Print Preview - Will display the standard Excel Printer Preview Dialog. This is in the menu because in the future ViewPlus may add our own Print Preview. Right now, the best way to really preview what is going to be printed to an Embosser is to Print to File, and open that file in our Tiger Designer. More detailed tips on using the Tiger Formatter can be found in the ViewPlus Tutorials, which are on the ViewPlus web site (www.viewplus.com).

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