[bksvol-discuss] Re: font size
- From: "Amy Goldring Tajalli" <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:06:50 +0000
I frequently use Times New Roman [only Times here at font size 6] as I can see it more clearly than any of the others offered here in webmail.att.net. The book I am currently reading is at Ariel 24 but it is one I am reading, not scanning or validating. Usually I scan normally but view it at multiplied by 2. When I want to check something I switch to multiplied by 1. Only if it is in a font that makes viewing difficult do I change the font. This is the best I can show equal to my reading though I think it is just a bit smaller. I cannot understand how the same fonts at the same size can be so different from one program to another. If I try to read an Ariell 8 or 10 I cannot manage it. I have to expand it to 18 or 24 - preferably the latter. Now a 6 here seems to be close to that. Most books I cannot manage at magnification 1 but must go to a 2 at the least. I have some books I have scheduled to
scan
which will take at least a 3 as they are small [5x7"] and in very small print. Others, though not as small, have very small print and will probably be close to the same 3. While I use the reader, I know from the mispronunciation of Names and some words that I cannot rely on it for accuracy when I validate my own work which I automatically do. So I must enlarge it.To quote someone [I think Elizabeth I or Victoria but I don't remember where]: "We do what we must."
Amy
omsm
-------------- Original message from the ppardees <jfpardee@xxxxxxxxxxx>: --------------
> Hi I have submitted over 1600 booksthat have been accepted and never
> changed or worried about the font size.
>
> Jim Pardee
>
>
>
> At 07:09 AM 6/2/08, 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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