ViewPlus IVEO Creator Manual

1. Open the IVEO Creator or Viewer program.  If speech is on, it will say “Welcome to IVEO” when loading is complete.

2. Open the USAMap.svg file contained in the C:Program FilesViewPlussamples folder or the C:Program FilesViewPlusIVEOCreatorsamples folder.  When the file is opened, the program will say, "Document loaded title USA map” if speech is on.

3. For users who need tactile copy, the map must either already be available as a tactile copy or it must be embossed on a ViewPlus embosser.  If you wish to emboss it, check the page setup parameters, then print to a ViewPlus embosser.  Go to the ‘Page Setup' item in the File menu.  8.5 x 11 or A4 Braille paper is recommended.  Set the paper size, make sure that landscape mode is selected, and set the margins to whatever you find most comfortable.  The left margin should be at least 0.75 inches, and the top margin at least 0.5 inches.  Minimum right and bottom margins of 0.25 inches are recommended.  Be sure that the ‘Print Frame' option is selected, that the paper size is set correctly in the printer properties and that the ViewPlus embosser is on with the correct paper loaded.  Then print to that ViewPlus embosser.

4. Calibrate your embossed printout to the screen if the screen display has not already been calibrated.   Clamp the map you just embossed onto the IVEO Touchpad with the Braille index and figure title under the clamp on the left side and the tactile barcode dots at the top of the Touchpad.

5. Explore the map using the mouse, the stylus of a Tablet PC, a touch screen monitor, or by pressing objects of the tactile printout on an IVEO Touchpad.  Any action equivalent to a mouse-down will select text or an object and, if speech is on, cause the text or the title of the object to be spoken.  On touch screens or Touchpads, only one point should be pressed at a time.  The IVEO application will read the titles for each state on the USA map as they are selected.

6. Use the zoom functions to get a closer look.

Some of the states, especially in the Northeast, are small. In the printout of the entire country on one page, it can be difficult to tell where one state ends and the next begins. You can get a closer look in several ways.

Zoom in on a particular state

First, you can zoom in on a particular state. Touch the state on the Touchpad to select it. When the program reads the state's name, the state is selected. To zoom in on that state, press Alt+V to open the View menu. Select the menu item 'Fit selection to window'.  This will expand the state to the point that it fills the entire screen. To examine this zoomed in view of the state with the Touchpad, print it, remove the copy of the full USA map from the Touchpad and replace it with the new print out.  It is often useful to zoom out one or two steps with Page Down before printing to reduce the size of the object a bit in order to include portions of all the states around it.

Zoom in on a particular region

If you want to get closer up but want to include a number of states, you can zoom in on a rectangular area you specify. To do this, press Shift+Page Up or enter the View menu and select the 'Zoom rectangle' item. The IVEO application will say "Select corners of rectangle to zoom in." Select two corners of the rectangle, diagonal from each other. For example, choose the top right corner of the print rectangle at the top of Maine and then press somewhere inside Tennessee. This will provide a larger, easier to explore map of the Northeast. Now you can emboss the zoomed in view of the region and explore it on the Touchpad just like you did with the entire map before.  In accessibility view, users will be asked to confirm selections with the spacebar.

7. Use the pan commands to perfect the examination area.

If you've zoomed in on an area, but you decide you'd like to view the states above, below or to the sides of it, simply use the 'Pan Up', 'Pan Down', 'Pan Left' or 'Pan Right' commands in the View menu or their hot keys (Ctrl+arrow in the direction of the pan). Choosing 'Pan Up' will move the entire picture up on the screen (and therefore show more of the states below the area you were looking at). The other Pan commands work similarly.  The relative size of the zoom or pan steps is user-definable in the Preferences item in the file menu.

8. Return the view to the original view.

If you've zoomed in, but now you want to work with the entire map again, it's easy to return to the original view. Press Ctrl+Page Up or open the View menu, then select the 'Fit to window' menu item. This will return the file to the way it was when you opened it.

9. Switch between print outs.

If you've returned to the entire map view, but you want to take another look at one of the close up maps you embossed, just reopen the zoomed in view.  You can also reopen the full USA map at a later time when some other file may be loaded.  Place the printout you want to examine on your Touchpad. Press Ctrl+B or select the 'Open from barcode' item in the File menu and press Enter. The IVEO program will say "Touch first barcode point." The three barcode points are the three embossed dots located along the top edge of the print out above the image. Touch the one farthest to the left. IVEO will prompt you to "Press space to confirm." If you touched the correct spot, press the space bar to move on to the next point. IVEO will then say "Touch second barcode point." Touch the middle barcode point and then the space bar to confirm it as prompted. The program will say "Touch third barcode point." Touch the barcode dot farthest to the right and press the space bar to confirm it. The program will say "barcode reading finished" and the view of your print out will automatically load in the Creator. 

If IVEO does not recognize the barcode, it will say "No data found for this barcode."  This may be because the Touchpad read a touch as a barcode point you didn't intend. Try opening from the barcode again.  Alternatively the “Open from Index” item may be used to open the file for an existing printout.  Recalling the file and zoom parameters is possible only if the printout has been made on the computer where it is viewed or if the bar code library is transferred along with the SVG file from computer to computer.

10. Open a new file.

You don't need to close the file you're using to open a new file, but only one file can be open at a time. When you open a new file, the program will automatically close the old one for you. If you are using Creator and have made changes to a file other than changing the view, you will be reminded to save your file.  You will lose changes if you do not save the file before opening a new one. You can not save different views of a file, but you do not need to if you keep the printed copies of the views because you can recall the views directly from the printouts.  The program will save any changes you've made in the original view.

11. Close IVEO.

When you've finished using IVEO, you can close it by selecting 'Exit' in the File menu or by pressing Alt+F4.

Note: We have pointed out only a few of the hot keys such as Ctrl+B for bar code and Alt+F4 for exit. Most menu items have shortcut keys that you can learn from the "IVEO Creator Command Overview".