Hi Katie. To retain blank pages in Kurzweil, go to Settings and select Recognition which will open a dialog box. One of the available options is "ignore blank pages." If you press the down arrow it changes to "keep blank pages." Problem fixed! Peace and Hope, Donna _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Katie Star Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 10:11 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Stripper and Preliminary Pages Hi Gerald, Question.. So when converting a kes file into rtf blank pages are removed? IF so putting the page number in there should protect them? If we shouldn't be putting the page number in there then how do we keep Kurzweil from stripping the blank page out? Katie Hill Kaitlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx You, who are thirsty, come hither: if, by chance, the fountain fails, The goddess has, by degrees, prepared the everlasting waters. translation by fulcanelli of an inscription on the statue of maitre plerre, which stood on the parvis of Notre-Dame-de-Paris until its removal in 1748 _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Hovas Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 8:28 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SPAM][bksvol-discuss] Re: Stripper and Preliminary Pages Monica, Whoever designed the Stripper seems to have taken the title page into consideration. I wouldn't worry about this page. The only pages at the beginning of the book where it might be necessary to worry about something getting stripped would be the headings on the pages of the Table of Contents and the Acknowledgements. I've been treating these headings like chapter headings and protecting them. As for the roman numeral pages at the beginning of books, I'd treat them the same as the headers and page numbers in the rest of the book. The Stripper seems to have been designed to handle roman numerals as page numbers. At least I haven't noticed any difference in how the Stripper treats them. The evidence that the Stripper seems to understand them is that it's not adding page numbers to these pages in the HTML files. I've recently noticed that the Stripper seems to have a problem with blank pages where a page number has been added, making the page number the only thing on the page. I've spotted two page numbers on these pages in the HTML files, indicating that the Stripper didn't recognize the page number and didn't strip it. The Stripper appears to be storing a page number in the SMIL file based on what it expected to find but didn't, and then adding that guess back to that page when the HTML file is created resulting in two page numbers for the page. As I said, I haven't noticed a second set of page numbers on the pages with roman numerals, so the Stripper appears to understand that they are page numbers and treats them accordingly. However, I haven't been looking that close at them, though, because I don't recall having worked on a book which had them. My advice would be to treat them as if they were arabic page numbers, then download the book once it makes it into the collection and see what happened. I'll try to pay closer attention when I validate a book with roman numerals to see exactly what is happening. HTH Gerald _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Cortada Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 7:26 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Stripper and Preliminary Pages What would be the ideal treatment of the first few pages of a book like the title page? Should a placeholder header be put here for the stripper to strip? Also, what should be done with the roman numeral page numbers at the beginning of a book? Sorry to have so many questions and thanks for your patience. Monica in Maryland