Judy,
I am not familiar with Daisy as for some reason it will not work on my
computer even before my Windows went crazy. With Kurzweil, I read most
of the books I download and adjust the print size and , where the font
is a problem, I change it. My one problem I have not figured out how to
fix is with very dark print. That is where I have to switch to a
different font altogether because the font does not show as being bold
but my eyes hurt after reading for a few minutes. Like you, I have sight
but am visually disabled and have enough trouble getting my eyes to find
a focal point so that I can read one page at a time and not two
overlapping ones. I make what adjustments I can but I still think where
possible it is best to know what the writer wanted us to see if there is
something there to be seen If the font is irrelevant, than I don't
hesitate to make it as legible as possible. That is why when I need to I
switch the whole book to a New T imes R oman. It is the simplest, plain
print I have found and easy on the eyes. This font, when plain and not
bold, can replace the bold print even if the whole book is bold, dark
print. I think the Bookshare computer or the scanner's computer does not
realize that some prints are "officially" bold and need to be changed
for the non-bold equivalent font.
Amy
omsm
-------------- Original message from "Judy s."
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> Mayrie is correct - it's been my experience that fonts end up
being a bazillion
> different sizes when books are scanned. As a sighted but disabled
Bookshare
> member, this makes books that are in the collection very
difficult to read when
> I unpack a Daisy file and use the html for visual reading. When I
download a
> book to validate - and I've validated close to 100 books now -
almost all of the
> .rft files have widely varying fonts throughout the scans, unless
the individual
> who scanned the book has checked and and standardized the fonting.
>
> As Mayrie said, it's not necessary for submissions to address
this. However, it
> literally takes only about 30 seconds using Word, and a few
keystrokes, to
> change an entire book to have one consistent font throughout. smile.
>
> As a sighted Bookshare member, I can tell you that it puts an
additional barrier
> into reading, and it makes books on Bookshare less accessible to
have books with
> wildly variable fonting.
>
> The best way I can describe it as a visual experience in
equivalent listening
> terms is that it's as if narrator varies from whispering to
shrieking and every
> noise level in-between, going back and forth constantly in volume
and emphasis
> with no rhyme or reason. smile.
>
> I usually download, back-translate and read braille books from
the collection.
> That way I get a file that I find much more readable, even though
it loses
> appropriate fonting and formatting that a well-done Daisy file
preserves,
> formatting that enhances the reading experience for the visual
reader.
>
> The Daisy conversion does preserve the fonting, by the way, in my
experience
> based on the books I've downloaded that are in the collection. I
recall reading
> somewhere that Daisy conversion has difficulties with teeny fonts
and
> massively huge fonts - but I can't speak to that specifically, as
I've never
> been involved with a Daisy conversion from the technical side.
>
> Judy s.
>
> Mayrie ReNae wrote:
> > Hi Nancy,
> >
> > I don't know if regulating the font is a common practice. I
> > just know that I do it so that people reading with their eyes
won't have
> > to read a book with a bazillion different font sizes in it. I
have been
> > told that without regulating the font that Kurzweil isn't
consistent
> > throughout a given book at all. Drives sighted readers nuts,
and takes
> > me less than thirty seconds in Microsoft Word to change it to
all one
> > font when protecting page numbers and changing em dashes to
double hyphens.
> >
> > Mayrie
> >
> > At 04:09 AM 6/2/2008, you wrote:
> >> Trying again,
> >>
> >> Is it a common practice to change the size font a book has if
you are
> >> the scanner?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Nancy
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grandma Cindy"
> >>
> >> To:
> >> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 2:07 AM
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font size
> >>
> >>
> >>> I'm not positive that I understand your question, but I'll try.
> >>>
> >>> One can change font size and type in Word, and I do for chapter
> >>> titles and places where the print book has enlarged type,
e.g., for
> >>> store signs in one book I validated, or newspaper headlines in
> >>> another. But my scanner doesn't convert to the exact fonts
that are
> >>> in the book. For some of the validations I've done I've had
to make
> >>> enlarged fonts smaller because they don't fit on the page. I
was told
> >>> in the past that some don't fit properly on people's Braille
readers
> >>> or whatever they're using to read, also. I seem to remember,
and hope
> >>> I'm not wrong, that a size of 36 was the largest that would
fit. Of
> >>> course that would depend on the font style, because some are
smaller
> >>> than others, but to be safe I don't enlarge anything more
than 36.
> >>>
> >>> G.Cindy
> >>>
> >>>> From: NANCY M HILL
> >>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font size
> >>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 10:36 PM
> >>>> Is there a place where you can adjust font size? Would you
> >>>> adjust the font
> >>>> size for any reason other to help you proof or validate the
> >>>> book if you had
> >>>> useable vision?
> >>>>
> >>>> Nancy
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
> >>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 1:12 AM
> >>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: font size
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Curtis,
> >>>>
> >>>> K1000 scans the print of the book at the size of the
> >>>> print - which I
> >>>> cannot read most of the time. When I first learned the
> >>>> program, the Kurzweil
> >>>> tech showed me how to set the size by magnification and I
> >>>> did not even
> >>>> notice the font or font size. Magnification does not change
> >>>> anything at base
> >>>> except what the scanner sees. It does not effect the final
> >>>> size which is
> >>>> what the book is in. All the corrections show up within the
> >>>> original text in
> >>>> the places I put them. If there is a problem, I ask that
> >>>> the
> >>>> editor/validator double check but most of the books I have
> >>>> submitted have
> >>>> been accepted as they were without going to step 2. If I am
> >>>> really worried,
> >>>> I make a note to have something checked for me so it will
> >>>> go to step 2. If
> >>>> not, I down load it when it is in the collection and double
> >>>> check there.
> >>>> Only once have I requested that the final form was bad
> >>>> enough that I want it
> >>>> sent back for rescanning and will be doing that soon.
> >>>>
> >>>> Amy
> >>>> oms m
> >>>> < br>If it be now, 'tis not to come,
> >>>> If it be not to come, it will be now,
> >>>> If it be not now, yet it will come.
> >>>> The readiness is all.
> >>>> William Shakespeare.
> >>>>
> >>>> -------------- Original message from Curtis Delzer
> >>>> : --------------
> >>>> Fascinating, every book I've read using K1000, for
> >>>> some reason, I did
> >>>> not pay attention at all to the font or it's size. hmm!
> >>>> :) Maybe I'm getting
> >>>> ... what? forgetful? or .. what? :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Curtis Delzer
> >>>
> >>>
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