[bksvol-discuss] Re: file conversion question, txt file dilemma

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:02:09 -0500

Hi Cindy,

What you remember is correct, but the submissions must have HARD PAGE 
BREAKS.  Bookshare no longer accepts .txt files.

Sue S.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: file conversion question, txt file dilemma


I'm a little confused. txt files can be saved as rtf and then submitted. I 
seem to remember that losing page breaks et al was the situation in 
reverse--you could validate in rtf but when converted to txt everything was 
lost. Back when txt files were submitted, I downloaded and converted them to 
Word and then rtf and validated them and then uploaded them as rtf when I 
was finished.

I would think that you could convert her txt files to rtf and then work on 
them. the only problem would be knowing where the page breaks and numbers 
belong, but I seem to remember--and I might be wrong because it was quite a 
while ago--that there were spaces between txt pages, though not hard page 
breaks.

Cindy

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--- On Fri, 8/29/08, Jamie Prater <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jamie Prater <jdprater@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: file conversion question, txt file dilemma
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 29, 2008, 6:19 AM
> Hey, yep, you've got that right.  Some's better than
> none and with
> technology the way it is, the some is growing and I'm
> determined to be
> content with that.  Have a blessed day and thanks.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mayrie ReNae"
> <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:58 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: file conversion question, txt
> file dilemma
>
>
> > Hi Jamie,
> >
> > I'm sorry to confirm that submissions in txt
> format are not accepted
> > by bookshare.  But, on the bright side, all of the rtf
> and ark files are
> > still acceptable file formats for submissions.  And
> the txt files don't
> > have
> > the formatting that Bookshare requires.  Too bad.  But
> some of a
> > collection
> > being available is a lot better than none of it,
> isn't it?
> >
> > Hopefully.
> >
> > Mayrie
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jamie Prater
> > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:42 AM
> > To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] file conversion question,
> txt file dilemma
> >
> > Hi, all, I've heard from at least one reliable
> source that .txt files
> > can't
> > be used on bookshare and if they are saved as rtf
> files, they'll lose
> > formatting.  The file I have, I had to save to this
> format because the
> > book
> > wouldn't read properly with pdf adobe and jaws,
> and while I was getting
> > signed up as a bookshare member, I was told I could
> submit txt files by a
> > bookshare staff member.  I believe my reliable source
> that says you can't
> > submit .txt files to bookshare, I just wanted to ask
> out here as well to
> > see
> > if there's any hope at all whatsoever as I've
> got a friend who has quite a
> > few books on txt as well as rtf and a few ark's,
> and all totaled, she has
> > a
> > sizable collection that I'd love to see added to
> the bookshare library.
> > Any
> > suggestions or light on the subject would be greatly
> appreciated as
> > neither
> > of us felt that it would be a problem to save files
> this way or we would
> > have saved them originally as rtf so they would be
> appropriate for
> > bookshare.  Thanks a bunch and have a blessed day.
> >
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