[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating RTF: Included Images
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:57:13 -0600
Hi Gerald,
Fortunately, I didn't have to release it. Tom showed me a way to correct
the problem.
You're right about the included images, and how they couldn't be included in
an RTF, though. I wasn't thinking clearly this morning.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Hovas
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:51 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating RTF: Included Images
Lora,
While RTF files can contain images, it sounds like you are thinking of the
scanned image for each page, and they wouldn't be included in an RTF
document.
I suspect that the software that the submitter used to clean up the book got
carried away with adding the tags for specifying formatting and included the
same tags over and over again instead of recognizing that the formatting has
already been specified for a given passage and not bother adding the tags a
second time. I've seen Word have this problem and cause the file to grow
considerably when converting a DOC file to RTF.
When I had my trial version of K-1000, I found that saving these files in
K-1000 then again in Word clears out all of that redundant formatting, so if
you don't have K-1000, then I'd suggest letting someone else validate the
book since the Bookshare system will probably have problems uploading this
book after validation.
This appears to be why some books won't upload at that point in the process.
I suspect that it has to do with the tools not being able to handle all the
redundant formatting and crashing rather than choking on the size of the
book.
HTH
Gerald
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lora
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:03 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validating RTF: Included Images
Good Morning,
I'm validating an RTF file that is about 13 megs in size. This is a 435
page book. When it saves to .txt, it's only 626K. The only reason I can
think of for the discrepancy is that the RTF file includes all of the
scanned images. How would I verify this? Is there any way to save the file
to remove these pictures, without losing the page breaks?
I usually validate in Word, and the file size seems to be bogging down the
spell checker, and JAWS' ability to read in general.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Lora
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