[Nimprodesign] NimPro version PR4 released

[David Holladay]

Duxbury Systems is introducing a new product, NimPro, to read NIMAS files. 
This product automates many of the common transcriber steps which may be 
very time consuming. These files can then be exported to DBT (version 10.5 
or above) or to MegaDots (version 2.3).

NimPro is free for licensed DBT and MegaDots users. Other uses prohibited.

For the latest version,

Go the the URL:

http://www.duxburysystems.com/nimpro.asp

To download the most recent version of NimPro (Pre-Release version 4)
This is the software presented on November 21, 2008 at the Michigan's 
Integrated Technology Supports/American Foundation for the Blind Training 
Session.

The previous version (PR3)  was posted was in early April, 2008

A revised Power-Point presentation is also available from the NimPro web page.



List of Changes from NimPro PR3 to PR4 (from April to November 2008)




New Features

    * The NimPro Native Format Can be Used to Store and Restore your work
    * Export (file format) choices expanded for several new formats
    * When you right click on images, NimPro offers you more choices
    * Direct Braille keyboard choice available for Transcriber's Notes
    * Handling of inappropriate print page numbers added
    * When exporting a document to any MegaDots format, Nimpro now ensures 
that all rows in any given table contain the same number of columns.
    * It is now possible to select synchronous or asynchronous image 
loading by using the preferences dialog.
    * There is an image processing gauge (progress bar).
    * NimPro can generate a file for technical support that protects 
copyright (most text is just the letter "z")
    * NimPro has been integrated with QuickTac to speed up the production 
of tactile graphics


Areas of Significant Improvement

    * Much Work on Image Loading and Saving to Speed up the Software
    * The core code has been worked over to eliminate many crashes and issues
    * From the top menu, Help, Contents has been improved
    * Various screen features scale better to different dimensions (i.e. 
screen display is useful for those with low vision)
    * Screen display glitches have been cleaned up (but see below)
    * The Word Count feature is now fundamentally working.
    * Many functions of NimPro did not work in the tree view (as opposed to 
page view), to the extent possible, this has been rectified
    * Blank paragraphs and spaces at ends of line should be cleaned up 
automatically.
    * More paragraph styles are supported by NimPro

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