[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF
- From: Jackie McBride <abletec@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:47:40 -0400
Regarding page breaks & .txt files, here's wussup. If the .txt files
will save the formfeed character, which is ascii 12, then page breaks
are preserved. The weird thing about OB is that ctrl a only allows u
to select 1 page at a time as opposed to the entire file. So
conversion to other formats is rendered far more difficult. Roger,
have u tried using the OCR that came w/your scanner? Often this is
some derivative of textbridge or ReadIris, & can actually be pretty
good. B4 I purchased OCR software, I used the software that came w/my
visioneer scanner for scanning & recognizing.
On 6/28/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The problem with that is that the d's are not there in the file on Open
> Book. They only show up when I convert it and save it in Wordpad and I can't
> access the file there. After I convert it and open it , it shows every
> indication of being an empty file, that is, until I upload it to Bookshare.
> The way
> I know the d's are there is that, for one thing, I downloaded a book myself
> once for proofreading that had that problem, and when I upload this one and
> use the Bookshare spell checker there is a proliferation of words that
> begin with d that did not when I did the proofreading.
>
> "I find
> capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because
> it
> causes war, hypocrisy and competition." Fidel Castro
>
> The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml Pathfinder Press:
> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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> I'm not sure about the symbols allowed in openbook, but you could try doing
> a find and replace on \ld to \l. I sure hope the d is at the beginning of
> each
> and every line otherwise you will have a mess on your hands.
>
> Bob
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> Well, again, I don't have word, but something else occurs to me. Is there
> an easy way to remove all of those d's from the beginning of each line. If
> someone
> here can do that I could just submit it to step 1 again and you could pick
> it up for proofreading. As far as I know, there is nothing else major wrong
> awith it.
>
> "I find capitalism
> repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes
> war,
> hypocrisy and competition." Fidel Castro
>
> The Militant:
> http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml
> Pathfinder Press:
> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
> http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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> I've never used that version, but in version 7, there was a Launch menu
> that I used to use to convert to rtf--or doc, I forget which--because my
> copy
> of
> OB was in the bad habit of putting blank lines between every paragraph when
> I converted to rtf with the Save AS menu. If your version has the Launch
> menu,
> you might try reconverting the file by opening it, going to the Launch menu
> and choosing Microsoft Word. When it launches Word, it converts the file to
> either a doc file or an rtf file. If it's a doc file, you can convert it to
> an rtf file in Word. It's worth a try if you have that feature in your
> version.
>
> Evan
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> There is a certain book that I downloaded for proofreading some time ago
> and put a lot of time into until I got it right. When I downloaded it I put
> it
> in my Open Book 6.0 to proofread it there. When I finished I converted from
> ark to rtf and placed it in my documents on the computer. The file was
> unreadable
> there. It appeared to be a blank file. After trying this several times I
> decided to try uploading it anyway to see if the Bookshare tools recognized
> a
> file. Apparently they did because they gave a page count and everything
> else as I would have expected, so I completed the submission. However,
> Carrie
> did
> not approve it. Well she meant to not approve it. Actually she accidentally
> approved it and then took care of it by withdrawing it from the collection.
> I figured out that the problem was that somehow, in the conversion process,
> the letter d was inserted at the beginning of each and every line. There is
> no space either. The first word of every line begins with a d. Well, I
> still had a copy, so I just submitted it to step 1 noting this problem and
> telling
> the proofreader to fix it. The person who picked it up for proofreading
> just rejected it saying that there are minor errors in virtually every
> sentence.
> That implies to me that the proofreader did not read my note, but if there
> is no easy way to remove the d's I think I might have rejected it too. I
> have
> what seems to be a perfect copy in Open Book right now and I don't have to
> remove a single d, but if I convert it they show up and I can't remove them
> then because I can't access the converted file. After having put so much
> work into this book I would hate to give up on it, especially when the ark
> file
> appears to be perfectly okay. Is there any way I can convert this book
> without this problem?
>
> "I find capitalism
> repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes
> war,
> hypocrisy and competition." Fidel Castro
>
> The Militant:
> http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml
> Pathfinder Press:
> http://www.pathfinderpress.com
> Granma International:
> http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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