I have a printer set-up and I am constantly printing contracts etc, and I need it to be able to print a template on the reverse side with all the terms and conditions.
I have no idea where to start with this one, it's stumped me...
Thanks in advance to anybody who can offer any advice what so ever.
Regards
Henry
If your printer has double sided printing, you could try inserting the terms and conditions in the appropriate page(s) and then choose double sided printing from your print dialog. If that doesn't do it, and if your terms and conditions do not vary across the contracts you are printing, you could print a batch of the terms and conditions, and then load those pages in when it's time to print a contract.
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I am using Twilio studio flow to make an IVR and not want to miss a single command from customer. When we say a sentence Gather Input widget is working but we say a single word like sales .Widget not detected any word and trigger no input .Can someone give suggestion how we used Gather input in our flow that it detect even a single word. I used hints and set language as well. I also used speech model like number and command but I am not sure how we used it .
Waiting for Answer.
Thanks
I am trying to detected single words as well from customers in Twilio studio
You're not going to be able to do both well and need to direct your user to either say something short or say something long. I recommend you go with short for best results. Additionally, if you don't want to miss anything your customer said you might want to record your call and to post call analysis to see if there was anything important there. Honestly, if this is your first time introducing speech to your customers do this:
"Thank you for calling X, how may I help you?"
Customer says whatever.
"Let's try this a different way for X press 1, for Y press 2."
This helps you to better understand what your customer's would normally ask for in their own words and then have a better idea if you really need to capture long sentences or short words.
david
I am trying to implement the accessibility to my ios project.
Is there a way to correct the pronunciation of some specific words when the voice-over is turned on? For example, The correct pronunciation of 'speech' is [spiːtʃ], but I want the voice-over to read all the words 'speech' as same as 'speak' [spiːk] during my whole project.
I know there is one way that I can set the accessibility label of any UIElements that I want to change the pronunciation to 'speak'. However, some elements are dynamic. For example, we get the label text from the back-end, but we will never know when the label text will be 'speech'. If I get the words 'speech' from the back end, I would like to hear voice-over read it as 'speak'.
Therefore, I would like to change the setting for the voice-over. Every time, If the words are 'speech', the voice-over will read as 'speak'.
Can I do it?
Short answer.
Yes you can do it, but please do not.
Long Answer
Can I do it?
Yes, of course you can.
Simply fetch the data from the backend and do a find-replace on the string for any words you want spoken differently using a dictionary of words to replace, then add the new version of the string as the accessibility label.
SHOULD you do it?
Absolutely not.
Every time someone tries to "fix" pronunciation it ends up making things a lot worse.
I don't even understand why you would want screen reader users to hear "speak" whenever anyone else sees "speech", it does not make sense and is likely to break the meaning of sentences:
"I attended the speech given last night, it was very informative".
Would transform into:
"I attended the speak given last night, it was very informative"
Screen reader users are used to it.
A screen reader user is used to hearing things said differently (and incorrectly!), my guess is you have not been using a screen reader long enough to get used to the idiosyncrasies of screen reader speech.
Far from helping screen reader users you will actually end up making things worse.
I have only ever overridden screen reader default behaviour twice, once when it was a version number that was being read as a date and once when it was a password manager that read the password back and would try and read things as words.
Other than those very narrow examples I have not come across a reason to change things for a screen reader.
What about braille users?
You could change things because they don't sound right. But braille users also use screen readers and changing things for them could be very confusing (as per the example above of "speech").
What about best practices
"Give assistive technology users as similar an experience as possible to non assistive tech users". That is the number one guiding principle of accessibility, the second you change pronunciations and words, you potentially change the meaning of sentences and therefore offer a different experience.
Summing up
Anyway this is turning into a rant when it isn't meant to be (my apologies, I am just trying to get the point across as I answer similar questions to this quite often!), hopefully you get the idea, leave it alone and present the same info, I haven't even covered different speech synthesizers, language translation and more that using "unnatural" language can interfere with.
The easiest solution is to return a 2nd string from the backend that is used just for the accessibilityLabel.
If you need a bit more control, you can pass an AttributedString as the accessibilityLabel with a number of different options for controlling pronunication
https://medium.com/macoclock/ios-attributed-accessibility-labels-f54b8dcbf9fa
First, I'd like to apologize in advance if I have posted this on the wrong website in the stack-xyz network.
My question is simple.
Does anyone know of a printer that can print the most amount of lines in a single page? What I mean is, is there a printer that can print so small but still legible characters achieving the most amount of lines per page?
Please don't be mad and vote me down to oblivion. If I was wrong to create this post I'll kindly remove it. I just want to know.
I am looking into a way to manipulate the data sent to a printer (inkjet for now. Probably an HP 2460).
I want to change the data dynamically each time the printer tries to print.
Ie. at point 1, the print will be of the page kept normally, but the paper might change its position, so I am looking for a way to rotate the input image to counter the rotation of the paper.
I think I am looking for a way to specify the data to be printed pixel by pixel in real time.
Data input available :
rotation
position of the print head with respect to the corner of the page at
each instant provided in real time
What I have so far:
I have seen one instance where a particular HP inkjet was modified to work directly off an arduino but I would like to do it directly from the computer for now for 2 reasons:
I need to submit a proof of concept system as soon as possible
I don't have much easy access to logic analyser/scope to reverse
engineer the communication protocol (nor probably the expertise).
I am looking into PostScript, GhostScript but from what I understand so far, I wont be able to modify the data dynamically (Still trying to figure it out, so pardon me if I'm wrong). Would this approach work? Or do I need to look into drivers or something else?
I am aware of the restrictions of asking questions and how ill-researched questions are frowned upon. I am still trying to figure out how to get this done and have been looking into all the things that came up in my mind and I am coming across while looking through. But, so far, whatever I've seen doesn't seem to be capable of doing what I want (or I'm missing it). I'm asking this question in the hope of getting some pointers as to what to look into.
if you mean to manipulate each page, ie this page landscape next page portrait, etc then i would work on the postscript input, and not even think about the specific hardware communications.
On the other hand you want to grab the print head and manipulate things real time after printing has started then the approach will obviously depend on the specific printer.
I would try to do this at a higher level if possible. Best would be if you take control of how the postscript is being generated, then you can insert <<...>> setpagedevice to change printer parameters.
One problem is that most printer manufacturers have stopped distributing documentation on the printer command language.
Another problems is ghostscript output devices are hopelessly out of date, like dot matrix printers. (see problem one).
For a screen printing output application, I reverse engineered the epson 1400 print command language and wrote a program to output a bitmap to the printer. Then I wrote a ghostscript printdriver based on a .bmp driver which created bitmaps and converted the bitmap to epson commands. Since you want to use an HP, this code unfortunately won't help.
Having gone down that road, I can tell you it isn't easy. Inkjet's don't allow rotation, so you'd need to rasterize the inkjet, then re-create a rotated image. Ghostscript is itself tricky to get running to a printer using gsprint and redmon, but if you already have postscript job that prints upright, then the image can be rotated and shifted with postscript commands.
I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish. Can you use a pc with a webcam to preview the orientation, then generate a bitmap and print it to the printer or do you need to wait till the paper is in position before generating the print data?
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis and my university wants a one sided print. The printing and binding will be done by a professional print company. They only accept two sided manuscripts.
Because of that I need to add a blank page after every page of content. I don't want to do this manually using \newpage or \clearpage because there are too many pages. Is there any, maybe low level, TeX command or package to do this? Or can you suggest another tool that does this without breaking the PDF?
Thanks for your help!
One option you might look into is to use a double sided layout that allows separate formatting for the even vs. odd pages: e.g. the book class allows this. Then you will need to define the even pages to be blank (presumably you don't want headers printed, or the page count to increment).
An alternative (if you can't get this to look correct for what you need) would be to do the layout in single sided (so that page numbering, etc. is all taken care of), then have a separate latex document which includes the pages, one at a time (pdfpages may be a good package to do this properly), and then insert blank pages (with no headers/etc.) in-between. This may end up being more work, but if you have trouble with formatting, it may be the easier way to go.
I suspect that you'd be better off doing this by manipulating the output PDF, rather than changing the LaTeX.
For example, if you're able to print to a file on your platform, there might be options in the print dialogue to tweak this. Your PDF viewer may be able to arrange this, if only by inserting blanks every second page. Or there may be a GUI or command-line tool to do the reshuffling for you.
Having said that, I've no specific recommendations for what tool you could use. A quick look around suggests strongly that the pstops tool might be able to do something along these lines, but that only helps if you're generating your PDF from postscript.
So no recipe, I'm afraid, but this'll probably be a better direction to look.
(or, meta answer: find a different print shop, or phone again and hope you get someone who gives you a different answer!)