[bksvol-discuss] Re: Help Please
- From: talmage@xxxxxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:42:42 -0500
Hi Lori,
You came across an interesting one!
Let's do the easy first, there are no hard page breaks in the file,
they're all section breaks to the tune of the 278 you were getting
for page breaks.
I suspect this book was scanned using the stand alone version of
FineReader, which if I'm not mistaken seems to prefer section breaks
to hard page breaks.
Now comes the hinky part.
I think whoever submitted the book used Word 2007 to clean it up, or
at least a version since 2004, as it has a number of new Rtf codes in
it that would confuse older versions of Word and probably many other
programs that read Rtf. (Thanks Microsoft!)
The code that got me looking was right at the top of the file, the
first few characters in the file (if you look at it with a text
editor, not Word) are:
{\rtf1\adeflang1025
Now not that you probably really care, but adeflang is a control word
that was introduced around 2004, and along with the 1025, indicates
that the character set is for an Arabic font.
Now this in itself isn't a problem, unless you're trying to edit with
an older version of Word. Even if you are, there's hope.
For anyone with Word 2000, 2002, or 2003, take a look at the
Microsoft web page article,
"Open a Word 2007 document in an earlier version of Word."
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100444731033.aspx
You will need to install the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for
2007 Office.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
Download and/or install
FileFormatConverters.exe
After I did this Word behaved itself and didn't do strange things
when I loaded the book, and did a search and replace.
hth,
Dave
At 01:07 PM 2/18/2008, you wrote:
Hi, Everyone,
Last evening I downloaded a book to validate. The book is
"Practicing Theology Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life by
Miroslav Vol, and Dorothy C. Bass. It is an .rtf file.
The file had around 278 page breaks and almost an equal number of
section breaks. I found the technique for replacing section breaks
with page breaks: find caret b and replace with caret m. And I
used replace all.
After the replacement the file had one section, did not list page
breaks, and had only one letter per line. I'm not sure if I did
something wrong; possibly I should have replace the section breaks
with nothing. I'm new to editing with Word so don't know if I did
something incorrectly or if there is a problem with the file.
I released the book. If someone could download the book, check to
see how to correct the file and email me privately saying what I
should do, I would appreciate it. Then I would be happy to download
and validate the book.
If the file needs to be rejected, then the person could just do that
and let me know.
If this request is something that should not be done, just let me know.
My email is:
<mailto:loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks.
Cat Lover Lori
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