[bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating a Strange .Ark Book
- From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:29:31 -0600
It was strange. The file did end with a single extension, .rtf. It was
opening in Microsoft Word. There was definitely something wonky about
whatever OpenBook did. It's resolved now, though, and actually looks like a
very easy validation, when all is said and done.
Thanks for your help.
Lora
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald Hovas
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:52 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Validating a Strange .Ark Book
Lora,
That's what the RTF file would look like if it were renamed with a TXT
extension instead of converting to TXT. The page breaks are there, but are
represented as text instead of the Form Feed character, and since your
software isn't processing the rich text commands, it doesn't know about the
page breaks.
Make sure your filename ends with a single extension and that it's RTF. If
the file is named properly, then Word-or whatever you normally use for
editing RTF documents-should be the software that opens it if you hit Enter
on it from My Documents. If this is what's happening, then OpenBook
probably wrote some invalid RTF code when it created the file, and I'd use
Jake's suggestion of launching Word from OpenBook to solve the problem.
HTH
Gerald
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lora
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:03 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
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