[bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue

  • From: Mike <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:21:07 -0700

Check the book history to find out if the person who scanned the book left an email. If so, you can ask if the scanner sees all those extra pages in his or her file to find out if your word or K1000 put them in. If there is no email address you will probably have to reject the book with a comment about too many blank pages. I hate rejecting books, but some really would take more time to fix than to rescan. 


Misha

On 4/18/2011 8:54 PM, Alyssa wrote:

Oy... Kurzweil is even confused. It says that there are 695 pages in the
original file, and in the updated one, it says there are 395. There should
be around 455 give or take a few with the front and back matter. LOL! Not
sure whether to release it or reject it. I'd hate to reject it, but I'm
running out of options.

On another note, MS Word now says there are 476 pages, so I'm getting
closer.


-Alyssa

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Smith
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 7:24 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue

Well, sounds like a real bugger. Do you by any chance have K1000? I've
often had weird things like this fix themselves if I open and save the
file in K1000 and then reopen it in Word, but it doesn't work every time.

Melissa Smith

On 4/18/2011 5:16 PM, Alyssa wrote:

Hi Melissa,

I tried this. It worked to an extent, but this book still has 50 or so

pages

that shouldn't be there even after adjusting the paper size. Hmmm.


-Alyssa

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Melissa Smith
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:14 PM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue

I've not come across your situation, so I don't know if this will work
or not. I'd probably try this on a test file first. There is a character
for whitespace, which is ^w which might get rid of the blank lines after
the page breaks.

Melissa Smith

On 4/18/2011 1:25 PM, Alyssa wrote:

Hi Roger,

Well, I have determined that some of the hard page breaks have two

paragraph

markers after them. Those I deleted in word by byping ^k^p^p into the

find

and replace box. Others have the page break followed by a blank line and
then 2 paragraph markers. Unfortunately, I have no clue what the

character

is for deleting the blank lines.

Still others are actually soft page breaks. LOL. I discovered this the

more

I got into the book last night. I changed the paper size but to no avail.

Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks for your help!


-Alyssa


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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran

Bailey

Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:09 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue

I had a case in which I had proofread a book in Open Book and when I
converted it to RTF extra page breaks were inserted. I did not have Word

and

I was about to give up on it because I thought that I would have to proof

it

again line by line removing each extraneous page break. I finally hit on

a

solution. I was able to remove them in Wordpad. First, the most recent
versions of JAWS will not read page breaks in Wordpad. I had to go back

to

an earlier version of JAWS that would. I think it was version 9. Then,
noting that the extraneous page breaks were each right up against a
character while the page breaks I wanted to keep had a blank line before

and

after them, I did a find and replace for each letter of the alphabet and
every punctuation mark I could think of. I used the find function to find
the character with a page break right affter it with no space. I replaced

it

with just the character and all the unwanted page breaks vanished. It

took

twenty-six operations for each letter of the alphabet and then more for

the

punctuation marks, but it was a lot easier than proofing the whole thing
again.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alyssa"<lyssassong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 12:44 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Page Issue



Okay, so JAWS was being flaky. Apparently these are hard page breaks

after

all! Not sure why it wasn't seeing them in that manner at first, unless

it

had to do with blank lines I was able to get rid of. Anyway, is there a
method for removing blank pages in Kurzweil or MS Word? I'm about to

look

for myself but wanted to ask here in case I do not find anything. I
realize
that Bookshare wants them to be there, but I believe it would be easier

to

insert them where appropriate rather than arrowing through a file line

by

line in search of the ones that do not belong.



Thanks!





-Alyssa



From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alyssa
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 11:29 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Page Issue



Hello,



I cannot tell what is going on with a book I am proofing at the moment.
The
book appears to have double the amount of pages it should. When I

checked,

it seems that before each hard page break, there is something else which
appears to be another type of break. I am guessing that this may be a

soft

page break but do not know for certain.  If anyone else has seen this

and

knows more about what I am referring to, please help me get rid of these
in
one swoop. Otherwise, this is going to be a very tedious process.



Thanks!





-Alyssa



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