Installing your Brother printer driver and keeping it updated is refreshingly simple. Most of the time, print drivers install automatically with your device. If there are any updates or new features or bug fixes available, you can download them easily from the Brother website. Just follow the simple instructions and you’ll be all set. Navigate the list of applications until you find Index Braille Printer Driver version 7.1.1 or simply activate the Search feature and type in 'Index Braille Printer Driver version 7.1.1'. If it is installed on your PC the Index Braille Printer Driver version 7.1.1 application will be found very quickly. Printer driver for Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10. This version fixes a problem on Windows 8.x where the printer prints garbage each time the printer is connected to the computer. Index Braille printer driver 8.2.1.5. Supports Index embossers V5, V4 & V3. Printer driver for Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8 and 10. This version adds.

Supported Version

The latest version of odt2braille can be downloaded here:

In order to install odt2braille, OpenOffice.org version 3.2 or later is required. Before installing, first remove any older versions.

NEW! Mac users can try out this Mac OS beta version. It does not have the print functionality yet, currently it is only possible to save as Braille. This version is only tested on Mac OS Leopard (run on an Intel processor). Please let us know if it works on your system too!.

WARNING!: Because in version 0.1.1 preferences are stored in a different place, templates and documents created with older versions will loose their saved preferenced when you open them with this new version of odt2braille.

NOTE: Internet Explorer has the annoying habit to save an OpenOffice.org extension as a .zip file, instead of an .oxt file. After downloading, just rename the .zip back to .oxt. Download merten driver.

TIP: If you get an error saying 'Could not create Java implementation loader', try LibreOfficePortable.

Other Downloads

It is strongly recommended that you also download and install the odt2braille 6 dot and odt2braille 8 dot fonts.
This CSS stylesheets enables you to view PEF files in an internet browser. Just place the .css and .pef files in the same folder and open the .pef file in your browser.
AccessODF is a really useful complement to odt2braille. The tool enables users to evaluate and repair accessibility issues. It is available as an extension for Writer.

All Releases

Version	Status	Date	Platform
0.1.1	Beta	08/11/2011	Windows
		08/11/2011	Mac OS (32 bit)
		28/07/2012	Mac OS (64 bit)
		31/07/2012	Linux
0.1.0	Beta	25/02/2011	Windows
0.0.3	Alpha	02/12/2010	Windows
0.0.2	Alpha	30/08/2010	Windows
0.0.1	Alpha	02/07/2010	Windows

Snapshots

You want to try out new features but you can't wait for a new release? Then download the latest new snapshots here. Attention, some of these new features are not tested thoroughly and may therefore contain bugs.

Version	Status	Date	Platform
0.1.1-p1-SNAPSHOT	Beta	11/10/2013	Windows
			Mac OS (32 bit)
			Mac OS (64 bit)
			Linux (32 bit)
			Linux (64 bit)

Release Notes

Version 0.1.1

Changes/Updates:

Free naming of sections (preliminary pages, volumes, ..)
Headings upto level 10
Mathematical formulas are placed inline instead of in block
Braille settings are now available from Format menu
Braille settings are not stored in custom properties like before
Default printer setting is saved

New features:

New embossers:
- Braillo (270, 440SW, 440SWSF)
- Cidat (Impacto 600, Impacto Texto, Portathiel Blue)
- Enabling Technologies (Bookmaker, Braille Express 100, Braille Express 150, BraillePlace, ET, Juliet Classic, Juliet Pro, Juliet Pro 60, Marathon, Romeo 25, Romeo Attache, Romeo Attache Pro, Romeo Pro 50, Romeo Pro LE Narrow, Romeo Pro LE Wide, Thomas, Thomas Pro)
- Index (Basic-D V4, Everest-D V4, Braille Box)
- Mountbatten (LS, Pro, Writer+)
- ViewPlus (Cub, Cub Jr., Elite 150, Elite 200, EmFuse, Emprint SpotDot, Max)
- Generic embosser
New user preferences:
- Automatic splitting into volumes
- Extended document structure & volume management settings
- Borders on headings, tables & textboxes
- Tables: invert reading order, repeat headings, ..
- Footnotes & endnotes
- Pictures
- Hyphenation: minimum length of splitted parts
- Page numbers in Roman capitals
- Ignore hard page breaks in paragraphs or follow print

Translation tables:

New: Serbian, Kurdish, Ethiopic, Swedish (8 dot), Icelandic (8 dot), Farsi
Improved: Czech, French, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian, ..

A lot of bug fixes

Localisation:

Czech
Arabic
Polish

Version 0.1.0

Changes/Updates:

Improved handling of notes (note references with special number formats)
odt2braille fonts: updated (version 1.2)

New features:

New embossers:
- Index Basic-S V2
- Index 4X4 Pro V2
- Index 4X4 Pro V3
- Index 4Waves Pro V3
New user preferences:
- Volume info / transcription info:
  - Use paragraph style
- Paragraphs / headings:
  - Keep with next
  - Don't split
  - Orphan control
- Lists:
  - Don't split list
  - Don't split items
- Tables:
  - Don't split rows
New embossing options:
Number of copies
Magazine style
Z-Folding

Translation tables:

Woluwe math improved

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Fixed bugs:

Some list numbering bugs
Page numbering bug
Custom paper format

Localisation:

Swedish

Version 0.0.3

Changes/Updates:

The Braille preview window has been improved. You can now switch view between dots and text.

New features:

Support for 8-dot Braille
Dedicated odt2braille fonts (6-dot and 8-dot)
Split exported Braille (BRF/PEF/BRA) into multiple files (one for each volume)
New embosser: Index Basic 'Blue-Bar'
Speed optimalisations
New user preferences:
- Paragraph styles
- Character styles
- Right justification
- More table of contents settings
- Begin headings on a new Braille page
- Left/right margin for centered headings
- Keep empty paragraphs

Translation tables:

New: Indian languages (Assamese, Bengali, Khasi, Manipuri, Munda, Old Newari, Santali, Awadhi, Bihari, Braj Bashha, Gondi, Konkani, Kurukh, Marathi, Marwari, Nepali, Pali, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Gujarati, Panjabi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Dravidian, Tamil, Telugu)
New: Greek within Spanish/Catalan text
Improved: Icelandic, Polish, Slovene, Dutch, French, Woluwe math

Fixed bugs:

Footnotes in lists were not rendered
A paragraph that was split over a print page was split in braille, even if no separator line was rendered
PEF output is now validated after export
Table of contents bug fixes
Some other small bug fixes

Localisation:

Italian

Version 0.0.2

Changes/Updates:

The single 'Braille' menu is replaced with items in the 'File' menu and the 'Insert' menu.

New features:

The document can contain every unicode character.
The list of special symbols can be fully customized.
Hyphenation dictionaries for automatic breaking of words (supported languages are: German, Dutch, US-English, UK-English, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Tur