# KWB to Print on the PC

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 13-Apr-2008 19:16:23

Hi All,
Is there a way to translate KWB into a print file, such as .doc, on the computer? I'm thinking, of course, of some sort of third-party translator, preferably
one that's free. But can Duxbury do it? Or any of those other Braille programs? I know, of course, how to export with the BN ... but I'm imagining a situation where I have a .kwb file on a flash card or USB thumb drive, but no BN handy to translate with.
Thanks,
Caitlin

## Post 2 by Squiggles (Account disabled) on Sunday, 13-Apr-2008 20:53:37

No. You need to save it space with S, from the braille ntoe and save it as a word document. .kwb is proprietary for key word braille. Nothing other than the braille note can use it.

## Post 3 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Sunday, 13-Apr-2008 23:15:30

Seriously? No other programs support it? No one has invented a little program? It seems like it would be so simple to implement. Darn it!

## Post 4 by Striker (Consider your self warned, i'm creative and offensive like handicap porn.) on Sunday, 13-Apr-2008 23:37:53

no, it doesn't look like it.
While it may besimple we must remember its a format made to be used with the humanware notetakers. I looked for this a few months ago and couldn't find anything.
My advise would be to change your default keyword save format to .doc or .rtf or .brl or something like that which, you can open from the pc at need.
for the brf and brl though, you will need a program that can open these. don't try it in something like word or it will look all messed up. Moste likely, unreadable.

## Post 5 by battle star queen (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 14-Apr-2008 22:03:32

that actually happened to me once. I'd accidentally translated a document in to plain braille and when I handed it in the teacher was like huh?

## Post 6 by Caitlin (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2008 0:29:38

Lmao I did that once too. Sort of. Ish. Basically like half of it was in braille and...it was awkward.
Dude. Someone needs to make a little doohickey that can read .kwb. God. Where are all our nerdy blindie programmers?