Sounds good. I won't worry about the fonts then. I can just concentrate on getting top notch text quality, protecting headers from the stripper, making sure all my blank lines are where they should be and all the page numbers and page breaks are included. That is certainly enough to keep me occupied. <smile> Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Guido Corona To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:50 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Scan quality for blind vs other types of disabled bookshare readers Pratik, I agree completely with you. I would like furthermore to add the following: 1. While it is entirely possible that on occasion Kurzweil may generate an incorrect font size, on recent version of K1K at least using the Fine Reader engine, the occurrence is quite rare. . . it is much more likely that a hand manipulation will generate some bizzarre font attributes. 2. It is also true that dyslexic individuals may require particular fond/attributes combinations for best reading. This is however is an extremely individual-dependent requirement and is best dealt by the user's reading software, rather than a volunteer deciding on a version-fits-all. It is usually very easy for a reader to apply a single font or a standard system font to any document, even if the document were in read-only mode. 4. Printed books often contain excruciatingly small headers and footers, including minuscule page numbers. Let's leave them font attributes alone. G. Guido Dante Corona IBM Research, Human Ability & Accessibility Center, (HA&AC) Austin Tx. Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able ". . . Maybe it was only those who were most certain they were right who were guaranteed to be wrong. And that maybe, just maybe, those who questioned the most were in the end those who came closest to being wise." [David Poyer, The Command] "Pratik Patel" <pratikp1@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/05/2008 10:37 AM Please respond to bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Scan quality for blind vs other types of disabled bookshare readers I have serious concerns about changing font size and font types to a single one. 1. we are assuming--and this is a large assumption--that the author does not want the fancy font characteristics in a book and that these characteristics are not by design. 2. whether or not the author or the publisher wants the fancy font characteristics, I would hesitate to change anything about the book if it could be helped. THe issue of readability has to be addressed by the program used to view the file in the final, ultimate version. So, a reader using a program such as K1K should be able to use that program to change the font characteristics according to his/her needs. We should not need to nor should we be in the business of changing font to suit that purpose. 3. Font characteristics are important for individuals with LD. Remember that blind people are not the only ones reading Bookshare.org material. Pratik -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:32 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question on Scan quality for blind vs other types of disabled bookshare readers Hi, If you use JAWS 6 and above, you can use or set up a sound scheme that will alert you to changes in font name, size, and attributes, but I don't think that using such a scheme would help you understand what is actually supposed to be there. I'm not an experienced scanner, so I don't know if font faces, sizes and attributes can get messed up when scanning or not. Thanks. Jim James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc., james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810 "it is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis." -- Margaret Bonnano To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.