[bksvol-discuss] Re: Soft page breaks
- From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:42:42 EDT
The water is not muddied. I understand quite well now. In a message dated
7/24/2008 11:37:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Hi Roger,
A hard page break is the symbol that you have been encountering that no
matter what, will force a new page.
A soft page break is inserted by the word processing program when it thinks
the text on the given page will have to overflow onto another page if the
file is printed. Marilyn gave some good examples of how to eliminate soft
page breaks a couple of messages ago.
Soft page breaks are a pain because they confuse us as validators, making
the page count off from what it would be if only hard page breaks were
present in a file, which is as it should be. The soft page breaks will
disappear once a book is uploaded to bookshare if you don't remove them.
They're just a serious mind bending experience, if you're trying to keep
count of the number of page breaks in a book, to make sure that it matches
the number of pages that are supposed to be there. Imagine this: The book
you are working on has 250 pages, actual pages. But, some pages have a lot
more text on them than others, say maybe 80 pages are this way. So, those
80 pages might be considered to have too much text for one page by your word
processing software, and it inserts a soft page break in the middle of the
page somewhere so that if the file were printed the print would all fit on
one page. If you increase the paper size in the menus you can fool the
software into not inserting soft page breaks and keep your page count actual
instead of having 80 extra pages in the file that occur randomly.
Did any of that make sense? In short, soft page breaks are inserted by the
word processing software that one is using when it thinks there is too much
text to be printed on one piece of paper given the size of paper the
software has been told it will be using. If you tell it that you're using
really really big paper, then it won't break up your pages.
Okay, shutting up now, in case I've just muddied the water really badly
instead of helping.
Mayrie
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Soft page breaks
What is the difference between a hard page break and a soft page break? In a
message dated 7/24/2008 8:57:20 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Hi Mary,
The number of soft page breaks in a book doesn't matter; it's the
number of hard page breaks that does. If your book's number of page breaks
is within 10% of the actual number of pages in the book, then it should be
approved (assuming everything else is okay). I'm training a replacement for
me, since I'm going on a 2-week business trip, but clearly there was some
miscommunication between us. Please upload your book and I'll take a look at
it.
Carrie
----- Original Message ----
From: Mary Stephens <mstephen@xxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:34:55 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Soft page breaks
Hello. I need a crash course on soft page breaks. I had a book
returned with the following explanation: There are too many soft
page
breaks. This has nearly doubled page count. Please remove
I am using XP Home, with Kurzweil 11. How does one detect soft page
breaks, and what is the best way to eliminate them?
Thanks much!
Mary Stephens.
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