[bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about using a Mac for Bookshare validation work.
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:59:27 -0800 (PST)
I'm sorry and missed the original post. Unfortunately, editing on a Mac and
retaining formatting, is much more difficult. The two best options for editing
on a Mac are Pages and Microsoft office for Mac. The problem with using Pages
is
that it changes the representation of page breaks and you have to manually
replace them through a global find and replace. It works much better with
voiceover and Microsoft Office for Mac, but Microsoft Office for Mac has better
functionality.
I would be glad to talk with anyone on the phone about how to work safely with
either, but they both have their issues. TextEdit is not a viable option as it
strips all italics and bolding. I'm not sure that it can retain page breaks,
either.
I had tried using OpenOffice when I first began volunteering, and there was an
issue at that time, three years ago, but I don't remember what it was. It may
be
a viable option now, or not. I would love to hear someone else's impressions or
check out a book that has been added to the collection that was edited with
OpenOffice for Mac.
I am a diehard Mac user, as my husband will easily testify, but one of the
things I still float back and forth with to BootCamp is to work on book share
projects. There is no scanner driver for my Optic Book scanner on my Mac, so I
have to do OCR on the Windows side anyway. Editing can be done in Pages and
Microsoft Word for Mac, it just takes a few more steps.
Hope this helps a little bit… Valerie
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From: John Simpson <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, December 13, 2012 8:31:03 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Questions about using a Mac for Bookshare
validation work.
You might want to try Open Office. Itis a free, downloadable office suite
written in Java. It is very similar to Microsoft Office. Their download page
shows a version for Mac on Intel platform. I have used it occasionally, and
it seems pretty comprehensive.
I am not a Mac user and I am not familiar with Text Editor. I can't verify
that it will actually work for you. Since it's free, it's certainly worth
giving a try if you don't find another solution that you like better.
Good luck.
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darrell Shandrow
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:44 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Questions about using a Mac for Bookshare
validation work.
Hello Fellow Bookshare Volunteers,
I would like to know how to do the proofreading and editing work necessary
for Bookshare validation on Mac OS MountainLion. Specifically, I am
interested in knowing how to use find and repave in Text Editor, or another
application, to work with page breaks, section breaks and other special
symbols typically found in scanned books. Any ideas would be appreciated all
over the place.
Thanks,
Darrell
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