[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Advice on Fonts
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 21:52:54 -0700
Thanks, Kellie. If Bookshare just zorches font info, then I may as well leave
them as they are. If not, then the title, and perhaps chapter headings - I
will have to check - may be invisibly small. In that case, I may have to
select the entire book and pick a good font size such as 14 or so. I like to
preserve as much of the original book as possible, but if it is going to get
weird on me, then I will have to clear out individual font information to
ensure readability for people reading on a screen.
----- Original Message -----
From: Kellie Hartmann
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 9:12 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Need Advice on Fonts
Hi Evan,
I don't know how the font got to be 2; that is truly weird. Normally font
attributes are not lost in rtf conversion, which is one of the main reasons for
using rtf. When the book is processed by the Bookshare tools, I don't believe
font size is retained. If that's true, the thinking behind it is that a sighted
user will be setting the font size to meet his/her own reading needs. That's
also the reasoning why indents and spaces and tabs aren't preserved--the point
is that each user can control how the text will be displayed. There are
arguments for and against this approach, but that's the way it is at this point.
Hth,
Kellie
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