[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF
- From: "Bob" <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:07:06 -0500
Evan, he doesn't have word to convert .doc to .rtf, perhaps wordpad will do the
trick.
I thought--someone correct me if I'm wrong--that if you convert a file to .txt
you lose the page breaks.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: EVAN REESE
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 3:01 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF
I've never used that version, but in version 7, there was a Launch menu that
I used to use to convert to rtf--or doc, I forget which--because my copy of OB
was in the bad habit of putting blank lines between every paragraph when I
converted to rtf with the Save AS menu. If your version has the Launch menu,
you might try reconverting the file by opening it, going to the Launch menu and
choosing Microsoft Word. When it launches Word, it converts the file to either
a doc file or an rtf file. If it's a doc file, you can convert it to an rtf
file in Word. It's worth a try if you have that feature in your version.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 3:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A Problem With Converting to RTF
There is a certain book that I downloaded for proofreading some time ago
and put a lot of time into until I got it right. When I downloaded it I put it
in my Open Book 6.0 to proofread it there. When I finished I converted from ark
to rtf and placed it in my documents on the computer. The file was unreadable
there. It appeared to be a blank file. After trying this several times I
decided to try uploading it anyway to see if the Bookshare tools recognized a
file. Apparently they did because they gave a page count and everything else as
I would have expected, so I completed the submission. However, Carrie did not
approve it. Well she meant to not approve it. Actually she accidentally
approved it and then took care of it by withdrawing it from the collection. I
figured out that the problem was that somehow, in the conversion process, the
letter d was inserted at the beginning of each and every line. There is no
space either. The first word of every line begins with a d. Well, I still had a
copy, so I just submitted it to step 1 noting this problem and telling the
proofreader to fix it. The person who picked it up for proofreading just
rejected it saying that there are minor errors in virtually every sentence.
That implies to me that the proofreader did not read my note, but if there is
no easy way to remove the d's I think I might have rejected it too. I have what
seems to be a perfect copy in Open Book right now and I don't have to remove a
single d, but if I convert it they show up and I can't remove them then because
I can't access the converted file. After having put so much work into this book
I would hate to give up on it, especially when the ark file appears to be
perfectly okay. Is there any way I can convert this book without this problem?
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repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes
war, hypocrisy and competition." Fidel Castro
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