Current Installation
You are currently running DBT 10.5.
Available Major Upgrades
Please consider installing this major upgrade:
- DBT 12.7
(demonstration version):
Download demo installer
or
Read more.
This updated demonstration version of DBT is available for download at no charge.
DBT 10.5 will remain in place until you choose to remove it. You can evaluate the new software without disturbing the version you already have installed.
Available Service Releases
No service releases are currently available for DBT 10.5.
Supplemental Downloads
There are currently no supplemental downloads for this Duxbury software.
DBT 12.7 Additional Information
DBT 12.7 is the latest DBT release. It features improvements in the DBT editor, accessibility, embosser support, and document importing, as well as many language updates.
- JAWS script improvements
- More flexibility in the translated line display.
- An important improvement to the Word importer.
- Several improvements to the table formatter.
- Improved handling of Nemeth Code mathematics, including a simplified processing for use in uncontracted English braille.
- New support for Cherokee, Navajo, and a Kenyan variation of Swahili braille.
- Updated support for Croation.
- Improved character handling for Arabic, Hindi, and Devanagari scripts.
- Improvements to our braille fonts and Braille-Build program.
- Important fixes for users of Braillo 650 and older Enabling Technologies embossers.
- Minor improvements to English/Unified (UEB) braille-to-print translation.
- A fix for command line processing to enable better batch processing.
- Support for 2022 updates to Danish translation rules.
- New West African translation support.
- New support for Cherokee, Navajo, and a Kenyan variation of Swahili braille.
- Major improvements to UK-style formatting of UEB documents.
- Major improvements in Japanese, Bulgarian, Slovak, Serbian, and Croatian translation.
- Limited wildcard support in Find and Replace.
- Improvements to HTML and Word exports.
- Import of braille files using "Orbit Reader" no longer favors uppercase. This improves subsequent braille-to-print translation.
- There is a new template "Haitian Creole". The translation is identical to French uncontracted.
- DBT can now read characters beyond U+FFFF; it supports 54 new Unicode ranges beyond this limit. These are largely ancient languages and additional Asian scripts. The most requested scripts are Cuneiform and Ugaritic. Click here for the details.
- Many other improvements.
Full details of DBT release history are available on the Duxbury Systems website.
