SaveAsDAISY is available for Windows only. We provide an unified installer that detects standard installations of Microsoft Office. If Office is not found by the installer (like preinstalled or windows store versions of MS Office), it will request which architecture (32bits or 64bits) you want the addin to be installed for.

Latest version: 2.7 beta (released on January, 2022)

• Download universal installer

Report issues

If you have an issue with the installers or with the add-in, please contact the development team by mail to daisy-pipeline@mail.daisy.org.

Any construcive feedback is also welcome to help us improve the add-in :)

Feedbacks / Known issues

The accessibility ribbon does not appear after successfull installation

A user reported the addin to be deactivated after installation : In Word, under the File / Options / Add-ins category, Save As Daisy appeared under the Inactive applications section.

This issue is being investigated, but the following action has been tested and reported working by the user encountering this issue.

• Open the Manage panel, select COM Add-ins in the combo box and click the Go button,
• Check the Save as Daisy add-in and click on the Add button.

The add-in should start repairing himself before reopening the word document.

Changelog

2.7 beta (January 2022)

This major release starts the transition to the DAISY pipeline 2 as conversion engine. We now include the export to Epub3 (from a single docx file) as experimental functionnality under the SaveAsDAISY menu.

Fixes and updates :

• The installers are now completely unified to ease releases management : User with “hidden” office installation (like office installed from the Microsoft Store) are now prompted with a version selector on launch, including a link to help them find the bit version of their office if needed.
• Progression of the conversion is monitored through a progress bar and conversion messages to better visualize the state of the conversion
• Fixed a mathml handling issue
• Updated the pipeline 1 distribution to use 32bit java instead of 64bit : Users reported that voices provider are mainly distributing 32bits SAPI voices, thus requiring 32bit java for their launch.
• Conversion controls are now disabled in protected view (that limits word actions including plugin ones on documents)

2.6.1 beta - update 3 (September 2021)

Minor behaviour updates including :

• bugfix for #6
• bugfix for an issue regarding a PushLevel error message
• Conversion progress bars are replaced by a Message dialog reporting more precisely the process status

The code base is under a heavy rewrite process to optimize it and prepare the switch to pipeline 2 process, allowing to provide more outputed format and better support.

2.6.1 beta - Minor update 2 (January 28, 2021)

Minor update including

• bugfix for #2 in test phase
• bugfix for #3 in test phase
• Documentation updated (new manual and authoring guidelines, including integrated help file)
• Added a document file name check pass before launching conversion (to let the user manually rename his file if wanted)
• Fixed an installer issue where previous version of packages could be used instead of the new ones
• Name and logos updated in software and installers

2.6.1 beta - Minor update 1 (January 14, 2021)

Minor update including

• bugfix for #1 in test phase
• Removed the Accessibility Checker shortcut in the addin ribbon for office 2010 and later Users are advised to validated using the accessibility checker before launching a conversion in the conversion setting form, with a link to the checker documentation.
• Updated the AdoptOpenJDK java 8 runtime provided with the embedded DAISY pipeline lite

Feedbacks

• File not found errors with partial file names reported missing: Some characters like spaces and commas may lead to “File not found” errors in the conversion process. Replace those characters by underscore “_” and launch the conversion again.

2.6.1 beta (December 18, 2020)

Installer update

• Office XP is removed from the list of supported versions of Office,
• The list of officially supported versions of office now goes from Office 2003 to Office 2016/365,
  • For newer version, a warning is raised to let the user decide if the installation must continue or not.
• For Windows x64, a unified installer is provided for Office 32bits and 64Bits
• For undetected Office installations (OEM or Windows store install of Office are preventing version detection):
  • For office 32bits, the unified installer can be used,
  • For office 64bits, a separate installer is provided.
• The default installation directory is now in program files/DAISY/Save-as-DAISY Word Addin,
• The latest version available of the DAISY pipeline 1 is included in the addin installer, and is shipped with an integrated java runtime for Windows x64

Features

• The Word validation button is being replaced by a shortcut to the Microsoft Accessibility Checker, available in office 2010 and newer.
  • The previous word validation process is only kept for word 2007 and 2003 where the accessibility checker is not available,
• The conversion of word documents to DAISY XML now includes a post-process pass:
  • User can decide to apply cleanups and sentences detection in the conversion process options

Feedbacks

• An issue has been reported with document containing shapes or images, where the conversion would not launch. The cause has been identified and is being worked on.
• A user reported a “Not able to find directory to install” warning when installing the addin for word 32 bits on x64 system. The install directory was found after going one step back and clicking again on next.