[bksvol-discuss] Re: blank pages
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:29:39 -0500
Hey Kellie,
In Word, go into Page Setup under the File menu. Move to the Paper tab and
then tab a few times to get to the boxes to change width/height of the current
page. Just increase those quite a bit and Word's page rendering should be
limited to hard page breaks. (you can't really call what Word does page breaks,
because there's nothing in the file, just how Word chooses stupidly to display
the doc).
HTH,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Kellie Hartmann
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:15 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: blank pages
Hi Soniya,
You can keep blank pages--if you want to you could make a note in brackets
stating that the page is blank. As for the page number issue, that can be a
little complicated. When you work with the book in Kurzweil, do you see page
numbers/headers at the tops or bottoms of the pages? If so, Kurzweil is
handling the pages correctly. If not, do you see numbers at the tops or bottoms
of the pages when you look at the book in Word? There are two issues that would
make this happen. First and most likely, Word paginates everything in accord
with whatever is set as margins in its system. The reason is that it thinks
that all anyone ever does is prepare documents to be printed, so it uses the
margins set for the size of printer paper. That means it will throw in
arbitrary page breaks wherever the actual page contains more than would fit in
the printer margins. There is a way to fix this, but I can't remember off the
top of my head what exactly you need to do. The second issue has to do with
older versions of Kurzweil not recognizing a type of section break that some
programs use for page breaks. If this is the case, the good news is that
Kurzweil doesn't eat the section breaks--it just won't display them correctly.
I would recommend that if one of the programs is displaying the page breaks
correctly and the other isn't that you edit with whichever program is behaving
better. If it seems that the file has no determinable page breaks according to
either Word or Kurzweil, then there are a couple of ways you could handle it.
Since Bookshare won't accept books with no page breaks you can either insert
page breaks, (this only works when you have page numbers or headers that you
can use to decide where the breaks should go), you could release the books and
let the list know that this is the issue in case anyone else wants to tackle
it, or you could reject the book.
I hope I've been clear and not just more confusing. <grin>
Kellie
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