[bksvol-discuss] Re: Help With First Validation
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:58:20 -0600
Monica,
It's hard to say without actually seeing the file, but it sounds like this
might be one of those rare times where converting the book to a TXT file
then back to RTF might be appropriate. Converting to TXT should strip all
of the pictures and tables, but it would have the disadvantage of stripping
text attributes as well. It will also strip page breaks if you use Word for
the conversion. If the book is only 150 pages, then it might be easier to
convert to TXT then fix any problems that occur due to the conversion.
Anyway, it won't hurt to convert it to see which is more difficult to clean
up.
BTW, I don't know how the Bookshare tools will handle the pictures. They
may strip them for you, but then again they may make a bigger mess. I do
know from a document I read that Bookshare states that they do not support
pictures. Whether this means they'll disregard pictures which happen to be
included in the uploaded file is the question.
HTH
Gerald
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Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 4:53 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Help With First Validation
Hi, Tom. This book has approximately 150 pages. The text itself is
well-scanned and almost flawless. It has scads of pictures, text
boxes, section breaks, smart tags, and something called unformed
tables. When I removed the section breaks, the book became 450
pages. I used to think that I knew how to do farily advanced word
processing. This book is beyond my ability to cope though without
some guidance. Any advice on how to remove the pictures? There are
quite a few of them. Additionally, how do I specify the proper quote
character in the search and replace boxes? I saw on Jake's site that
I should convert the character 147 and 148 to a general character
34. However, the site doesn't tell me how to actually type these
special characters. Thanks for any help you can give.
Monica
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On Friday 3/17/2006 11:41 AM, you wrote:
>Hi Monica, How many pages are in the book? That seems to be very
>very large! A 300 page book is some where around two megs. If I
>were you maybe someone can tell you if there are indeed pictures in
>the file, if so I would delete them and put a note to that effect in
>the notes. Tom
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