[bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans And Word Weirdness

  • From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:24:50 -0500

Why Tom, it's simple!  Word is manufactured by Gatesy's Microsoft!!!!  <lol>

Sue S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tom hawkins" <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans And Word Weirdness


Hi Rick, Yup! Been all through this. We've even looked at the ascii file out
put. and all section-breaks look alike, so we can't figure out how Word is
telling the difference. Lots of fun! Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rik James" <d28rik@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 1:36 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans And Word Weirdness


>I think that is right.  At least that is what I thought when I worked on
>the
> book I mentioned.  When I would use the next page command in Word  it
> would
> go to the next section, so I figure that the Bookshare thing (so
> technical,
> I know) that looks at the file will perhaps also put too many page break
> marks.
>
> I could not think of a global way to do it without losing the ones needed
> to
> keep. If somone can think of a way, I'd try it.  Otherwise it is a bit of
> a
> laborious task.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tom hawkins
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:50 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans And Word Weirdness
>
> Hi Sue, That's a good question. As I remember it Bookshare sees the
> section-breaks the same as a page-break - so will there be too many
> page-breaks? Interesting. Maybe Geraldor one of the other techno guys will
> know. Tom
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: siss52 <mailto:siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:46 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans And Word Weirdness
>
>
> A long time ago, I remember Donna wrote a post saying she does not
> change section breaks to page breaks when she validates in Word.  So my
> question is, would it be okay to just leave them as section breaks?  The
> pages are numbered.
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: tom hawkins <mailto:tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:34 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans And Word Weirdness
>
> Hi Carrie, Actually there are three types of section-breaks that
> Word recognizes . but haven't seen the third type show up any where yet.
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Carrie Karnos <mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 6:45 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans And Word
> Weirdness
>
> I was planning on telling the whole list what I found.  Sure
> wish Word could distinguish between the 2 types of section breaks.  That
> would make life much easier!
>
> Carrie
>
> tom hawkins <tjhawk1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Carrie, Would you mind alerting me also of your
> results? I've been encountering trouble with Fine-Reader 8 also. I don't
> know if it's me but I've been getting too much junk. Went back to
> omni-page
> 15 and almost perfect scans, even though much slower. Thanks Tom
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Carrie Karnos
> <mailto:ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 5:47 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Carrie's Scans
> And Word Weirdness
>
> Hi Monica,
>
> Sorry to hear about the problems with my
> scans.  I was about to say that nothing changed at the office 3-4 months
> ago, but I'm not sure that's true.  I started using version 8 of
> Finereader
> instead of version 7 several months ago, but I'd guess it's 6 months or
> so.
> I wonder if that's what has caused the difference.  If you give me the
> name
> of a book with the problem, I'll run the .tif file through Finereader 7
> and
> see if I can spot any differences in the output between the 2 versions of
> Finereader.  Or I can find a short book at the office and run a check
> myself.  Will let you know what I find out. Maybe I will have to go back
> to
> using Finereader 7...
>
> Sorry!   Carrie
>
> Monica Willyard <plumlipstick@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hi. I'm writing to ask for help.
> Lately when I take one of Carrie's
> scans, I keep running into the same
> problem. When I get the rtf
> file, it has section breaks as
> always. However, when I use the find
> and replace feature and replace ^b
> with ^m it makes 2 page breaks for
> every section break that used to be
> there, and column breaks start
> showing up where there were none
> before I do this replacement. This
> only happens with Carrie's recent
> scans. I tried an older scan done
> by Carrie, and it worked perfectly.
> This didn't start happening till
> about 2 or 3 months ago. Before
> that, this find and replace thing
> worked just fine, and I validated 30
> or 40 of Carrie's books. Does
> anyone know what I'm dealing with
> and what I can do to fix it? I
> haven't applied any updates to
> Office XP. Am I doing something wrong
> and just don't know it? Once I
> change the section breaks to page
> breaks, sometimes the page number
> and header will have a page break
> above it and then right below it so
> that a book of 500 pages ends up
> being over 900 pages with these
> breaks. I am seriously stumped. Can
> any of you help?
>
>
> Monica Willyard
>
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