[bksvol-discuss] Re: Weird scanner issue

  • From: Monica Willyard <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:17:27 -0500

Hi, Christine. What version of Openbook are you using? I know that some older versions of the program had trouble with saving as rtf files. When I used Openbook 7, I noticed that it left line breaks and blank lines in some odd places. I found that I got the best results if I did all of my scanning and proofreading while my file was in the ark format and then saved it as an rtf at the very end. Some people save as rtf after each session of working on the book, and Openbook doesn't seem to like that very much. (smile) I don't know if this has been helpful at all. Maybe someone else has some better ideas to help you.


Monica Willyard

Christine Parsons wrote:
Maithe's recent comment about page breaks being stripped out of one of her files when she opened it in Word made me remember another scanning issue I had while scanning textbooks over winter break. It happened with two of the ten textbooks I scanned (and four more suffered the same fate as Maithe's file, so out of ten textbooks I scanned, only about three of them were even readable, much less submission quality). I scanned the books in OpenBook, saving the files as RTF files. Everything looked fine in OpenBook, but when I opened the files in Word, there were huge numbers of blank lines between lines of text. For example, two lines of a paragraph might be on one page, then two pages later there would be another few lines, then five pages later there would be another single line, and so on. This type of thing is hardly worth fixing, so I just decided to rescan the books, but I am really curious to know if any of you can explain this. Christine

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