[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks
- From: "Rui Cabral" <rui@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 21:57:26 -0500
Hi Everyone:
First off about this change in policy on pagebreaks, What wonderful news!!!
It will make validation and navigation much more feasible.
Secondly, rtf files are usually only about 20% larger then their .txt cousins.
This truely is very exciting news and places quality as a high priority on
bookshare.org.
-- Rui
Bookshare.org Unofficial Volunteer Scanning Page
http://members.cox.net/booksharescans
----- Original Message -----
From: Marissa Mika
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 3:57 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Breaks
Here's some follow-up to some recent page break inquiries:
Tiffany asked:
you said:
These books that have been kicked back to the validation cue are the original
files as submitted by the original submitter.
So my question is what happened to all the corrections that the validators
did? I know fixing scanning errors was not required by the validators, but
I've always done it. Are you telling me that all that work is gone?
I replied:
Have you saved a copy of the file you submitted on your hard-drive? That's
what I normally do in case a book that I've validated comes back to me for
further clean up. You should be able to work from that file and the file that's
been kicked back to the validation cue to maintain the integrity of the page
breaks and the clean up of the scan.
Sarah Asked:
I also wonder if a validator can introduce artificial page breaks that did
not exist in the original just to make files that are in perfect condition
other than missing page breaks acceptable, or must the pagebreaks be where they
would be if the original submitter had kept the pagebreaks cause by actual
print page size?
If you're going to automatically insert page breaks, you may do so if there's
a way for you to ensure that the page breaks correspond to the original pages
in the scan. We're asking you to do this because one of the great things about
DAISY books is the fact that you can navigate through them. If the pages of the
file don't correspond with the actual text of the book, this makes it nearly
impossible to navigate through the book if you want to get to a particular
section or page.
Pam and Sarah have book asked if we will continue to accept txt files:
The answer is: I can't imagine that we would stop taking txt files in the
future, but if they don't have page breaks, don't submit them.
I want to thank you for your patience and your questions. If you have any
more, please feel to drop me a note or submit a question to the bksvol-discuss
list.
Thanks!
Marissa
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