[bksvol-discuss] Re: formats (rtf txt) and page breaks
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:47:54 -0700
Any file format can be missing page breaks if they are not put in for whatever
reason, or if they are inadvertently or deliberately removed. The OCR software
has to put them in as new pages are scanned, or someone has to put them in by
hand. However they get there, they are not likely to be lost moving from one
program to another in rtf as they are with txt format. The problem is that txt
files can have page breaks, but they are easily lost if they are not handled
carefully. Since it is very easy to lose them in txt files, and page breaks
are required, it is best if Bookshare stops accepting them, as they will be
soon. That is my understanding of things.
----- Original Message -----
From: cheryl fogle
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 6:42 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formats (rtf txt) and page breaks
Hi,
I've been wondering about formatting in differnt programs. I just rejected a
slew of rtf filews without page breaks and rtf is promoted partly because it
retains pagebreaks, so how are they lost? The books were a series of romances
by Karen Kallmaker submitted by the infamous bookshare volunteer. See Jake's
reject list for titles.
And yet, Amber sent up a txt file with all page breaks present and supposedly
the reason to stop txt submissions is their lack of page breaks. Any thoughts?
Cheryl
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