Evan, Of late, I've been leaving page numbers where they are, top or bottom. When the numbers have been at the bottom, I simply leave a blank line at the top of pages, other than those where chapters begin. And I've been inspecting the brf files once the book was approved. As yet, not a letter of the text of these books has been missing. My experience is in no way technical, just to be clear. Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Evan Reese To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 7:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Another Stripper Question Dear Folks, I have a quandary that is perfectly suited to the collective experience of the people here. I have a book here with page numbers at the bottom of the page, not at the top. I am wondering if I should move them to the top. The book has no headers at the top of each page, and I would not be at all surprised if the stripper removed the first line of text from each page if it doesn't see something like a page number above it. I have seen it remove titles at the beginnings of chapters when there was nothing above the title, even though all the headers at the tops of the other pages were removed. I like to leave the book as close to the original as possible, but I don't trust that stripper as far as I could throw the computer it's running on. Clearly, it does not just look for repeated text on successive pages that would indicate the presence of a header. What do people think? Should I play it safe and move the page numbers? or can any of the more technically knowledgeable people here give me any assurance that leaving the page numbers where they are will not result in the first line of text from every page being removed if there is nothing above it except a page break and a blank line, which is the way it looks right now? Thanks for any guidance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.13.0/465 - Release Date: 10/6/2006