[bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with OpenBook
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:39:45 -0600
Hi Evan,
OpenBook unstable? that's the understatement of the year. Unfortunately its
architecture has not been maintained in today's computing environments.
I strongly recommend saving as an ARK file until you are ready to submit the
book, at which time you should go ahead and do the conversion. It's always a
good idea to keep things in a programs native format, less issues can arise in
use that way. BTW That's what I've always done and I haven't ever experienced
the coding issue first hand.
As Grace said you can attempt to launch the file into Word or WordPad and save
as an RTF file there.
I can send/post along instructions for using OpenBook with JAWS if you think
you might be interested. It'll generally stop the IBM TTS crashes that can
sometimes be quite numerous. OB will still crash more than you'd like, but at
least its a partial improvement.
HTH,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with OpenBook
Yah, I have been saving as .rtf as I go along; that is, doing a hundred pages
or so, then recognizing and saving incrementally as I go along. I was doing
that in case OpenBook does one of its voice failures - which I get from time to
time - and it stops talking. The only thing I can do when this happens is
close OpenBook and start again. It does bring up a dialogue box, which I can
read with JAWS cursor asking me if I want to save the file before I quit, but
since OpenBook itself isn't talking, I can't be sure what button I'm on to
close the program.
I'm sorry to say it, but from my experience, OpenBook is not the most stable
program I have ever used.
----- Original Message -----
From: Silvara
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Problem with OpenBook
Evan:
I have experienced this a few times. Somehow it's revealing the hidden
codes or something. The only solution I found was to launch the file in to Word
and then save it as rtf.
Are you scanning and saving the file as rtf? I found that it was better to
keep saving in ark format until I finished scanning.
Grace
----- Original Message -----
From: Evan Reese
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 7:32 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Problem with OpenBook
Hi, everyone, I'm having an intermittent problem with OpenBook and I was
wondering if anyone else here has had a similar experience.
It started just this morning, when saving as .rtf, I'm getting a file
that looks like one long line with \par \par where the paragraphs should begin.
But that's not all: It is also giving me a \rquote that extra space is there
deliberately - where each apostrophe should be. Where a title is located,
there is a whole raft of similar-looking stuff.
The problem is worse because I can't seem to create it at will. Also, it
doesn't always happen. It started just this morning after I began playing with
the contrast setting - I had kept it on automatic up to now, but I can't see
how that could have anything to do with it, and I am currently on setting 150
because it is giving good results in the text recognition department and I'm
not getting these characters now. That's the frustrating part: I can't cause
the problem. I haven't changed any other settings that I recall, but I can't
swear it. The first page of the book starts like this:
{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1 \page \fs24 etc. (The etc. is not part of the
sample.)
A few weeks ago, someone - I think it was on the other list - said that
he had seen this, but I think it was in a file he was validating, not one he
had scanned. At the time, I said that it looked like something viewed in one
file format that was intended to be read by another program, like reading a
file in a native word processor format such as .doc or wp5 in a text reader.
It looks as though OpenBook is saving the file in .rtf but not actually
converting it; but it has never done that before, and that's just a guess.
Anyone had OpenBook or another scanner doing this, and know how to cause
it, and better how to prevent it?
Thanks for any feedback.
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