[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF

  • From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:05:22 -0400

I didn't know that you did not have a copy of Word. In that case, just ignore 
my last message. Or, if the Launch menu has WordPad in it, which I do not 
recall, you might try launching that while the original file is open.

Evan

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  From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx 
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  Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 4:00 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Problem With Converting to RTF


  No, I do not have Word. I have proofread a number of books in Wordpad, but, 
as you know, that is not ideal. I thought that proofreading it in Open Book 
would be better, so this is the first one I did that with. If I had known this 
was going to happen I would have just stuck with Wordpad. Creating or using a 
macro is something I know nothing about. Converting it to txt is something I 
have not tried. Do you think that if I converted it to txt and saved it in 
Notepad I could then convert it to rtf?

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  Roger, without developing a macro, there is no easy way to fix that.
  Just curious--does it do that w/text as well? Perhaps if u have word u
  could save it as a text file, load it in2 word, & convert to rtf, .
  I've been workin w/another person on this list who uses OB & it does
  indeed do some weird things w/the conversion.

  On 6/28/09, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
  > 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?
  >
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  > capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because
  > it
  > causes war, hypocrisy and competition." Fidel Castro
  >
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  > http://www.pathfinderpress.com
  > Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html
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