Hi Lisa, Actually, it worked beautifully! I went back into OpenBook, exported the file to Word, opened it in Word, saved it to RTF, and all was beautiful. Bizarre, but good to know. Thanks for the tip! Lora -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lisa Belville Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:51 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating a Strange .Ark Book Hi, Laura. I had that problem when I first started validating. There's a very easy fix for it, but I can't remember off the top of my head. I believe I saved the file as an MS Word file while in OB and then opened it in Word and saved it again as an RTF file as soon as I verified that the funky characters were gone. I wish I could remember more accurately how I handled it. I do remember that I was able to validate the file with no problem once it had been converted properly. If you want to release it, I can download it, find out what the fix is and let you have it to validate. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:03 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Validating a Strange .Ark Book > Typically, the first thing I do with a .ark book is extract it to RTF. > I'm > going to read and upload it in that format anyway, so why not? > > When I did my Save as, and then opened the RTF file, this is an example of > what I got. > > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\uc1 \page \fs22 Praise for \i Wake Up, Sir!\par > \fs20 \par \i0 \rdblquote Jonathan > Ames\rquote s latest comic novel is so brilliant and charming that any > description of it is bound to be impossibly dull by comparison.\rdblquote > \par > \fs18 \par \i \'97Seattle Weekly\par \fs20 \par \i0 \rdblquote Hilariously > > It goes on like that throughout the book. When you look at the book in > Openbook, it looks fine, and there are divisions between pages, etc. In > the > RTF format, there aren't divisions between pages, either. > > I've done this same thing repeatedly with .ark books before without this > difficulty. Is there some config setting I can change to make the book > save > properly? > > Thanks, > > Lora > > > 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. 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.