Exporting to ProVoc?

calkins
 October 29, 2007, 05:51 PM posted in General Discussion
Hi All,

Does anyone know how to export to ProVoc (program similar to iFlash)?  I've tried to export vocabulary as a .CSV document, but when I import it into ProVoc it's all garbled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Brent
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eileen
 October 30, 2007, 01:57 AM

Hi Brent, I'm not familiar with the Provoc program but the CSV doc maybe causing all the problems since it has been known to contain garbled characters from time to time. Please head to our help page > technical questions > exporting and importing for more details.

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calkins
 October 30, 2007, 04:25 PM

Thanks Eileen! I'm on a Mac so it's a little different than the help page work-around. There are a few extra steps I need to take, but in the end I got it to work.

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azerdocmom
 October 30, 2007, 06:13 PM

Calkins, it might be helpful for those scattered (but very cool) Mac users (like me) if you wrote out how you did that. You never know, there may be budding digital photographers out there who'll benefit. How did you make your eye blue in your B & W avatar?

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calkins
 October 30, 2007, 11:04 PM

Following are instructions to export your vocabulary to ProVoc: Step 1 : Export to CSV Step 2 : Open .csv document in Excel or other spreadsheet program. - Make sure the "Character Set" is Unicode (UTF-8). - Separator options should be set to "Comma". - Delete any empty rows, otherwise the data won't transfer correctly to ProVoc. Step 3 : Save As .csv document Step 4 : Open ProVoc and click on "Create a New Document" Step 5 : Go to "File...Import" and select the .csv document - Make sure that "Text Encoding" is set to Unicode (UTF-8). Step 6 : Enjoy! The cool thing I love about ProVoc, aside from it's amazing interface, is that you can transfer all your vocabulary to your iPod, including characters. Oh, and regarding the blue eye...that's the color of my eyes, I just converted the rest of the photo to B&W. P.S. ProVoc is free software - download it here: http://www.arizona-software.ch/provoc/download.html

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azerdocmom
 October 31, 2007, 12:45 AM

Thanks, calkins. I realized that I can't use the vocabulary services of CPod till I upgrade. But, I'll keep these instructions till then. I hadn't seen this software company before but it's webpage is really beautiful to behold. Thanks again : )

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eileen
 October 31, 2007, 01:54 AM

Hi Calkins, Do you mind if I use your instructions and add it to our help page, it would be really beneficial if we can share this to the whole community! :-)

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calkins
 October 31, 2007, 02:02 AM

Absolutely Eileen, please share it on the help page! Brent