[bksvol-discuss] Re: have a little problem
- From: "robert tweedy" <rtweedy2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:35:04 -0600
I tried the two suggestions you gave but no luck. Actually this time kurzweil
let me enter the password but it couldn't open it because it's format couldn't
be determined. That is the message and as of right now the pop up block is
turned off in the security service pack 2 and bookshare is allowed in the
privacey tab. I think it might be a DLL file that might be corrupt and have
someone sighted to come over Monday afternoon to help me get to the window to
do a repair on XP.
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Scialli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:19 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: have a little problem
Robert,
Two things cme to mind. First, the way to open the books in the Victor
Reader is to jut launch the Victor program and let it find the books on your
hard drive and auto add themto your Bookshelf. It doesn't work in the
conventional manner of Windows applications in the way of Opening a file from
the actual file name.
As for the password issue, there are a couple of things that might be
happening. If you have some popup blockers, such as Add Subtract on your
system, there is some sort of buggy interaction between K1000 and the Add
blocker which actually corrupts the password as the file is downloaded. The
work around is to disable the popup blocker for the duration of your Kurzweil
session. The other possibility is that you've upgraded to Service Pack 2 of
Windows XP. IF this is the case, you may have to add Bookshare.org as an
accepted Web site in the Privacy tab of the Internet Options. If you don't,
the Windows privacy screening thinks that Kurzweil is a piece of spyware trying
to get third-party access to a secure web site. Let me know if any of this
helps.
________________________
Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org
www.bookshare.org
A Project of The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
peter @benetech.org
www.benetech.org
----- Original Message -----
From: robert tweedy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: have a little problem
I unpacked the book with the unpacked tool from bookshare and when it says
do you want to open the book now then victor reader opens the book but after it
says book loaded internet exployer says it can't display the page or it can't
find it i guess it is saying and to refresh the page or check your settings,
acting as if i am on the web instead of just open a book. I know I used to be
able to put in my password with jurzweil and it would open the book but after i
put in my password kurzweil won't open it because it can't find the format or
it doesn't reconize it. I'm not a techy so can't explain it that well so Peter
I hope I did okay, after open the book though, kuurzweil reconizes the
extentions but for example, it converts the XML extention to RTF automatically.
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Scialli
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Janice Carter
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:31 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: have a little problem
Robert,
Sorry, but I have no record of you asking this question in the
Support archives. Are you trying to use Kurzweil to open a BKS file that's on
your hard drive? If so, that won't work. What happens if you use the Online
feature in Kurzweil to retrieve and open the book? Does that work? If you
just click or hit Enter on an XML file, Windows will bring up Explorer by
default. You'll have to use the Open With Application command from the context
menu if you want it to open some other way. Also, the proper way to open a
DAISY book in Kurzweil, if the book is unpacked, is to use Kurzweil's Open
function to open the file with the .OPF extension. If you want Victor Reader
to open the book, you should have the full book, all four files for DAISY, in
the same directory, and once you launch Victor, it will pick them up via its
Bookshelf function.
If you can be specific about how you want to read the books, I can be
specific about how to go about doing it.
________________________
Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
Associate, Technical Projects, Bookshare.org
www.bookshare.org
A Project of The Benetech Initiative - Technology Serving Humanity
peter @benetech.org
www.benetech.org
----- Original Message -----
From: robert tweedy
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 6:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] have a little problem
I just downloaded some new books and kurzweil can't openthem because it
doesn't reconize the format, when i try the bookshare unpack it opens but after
bring up victor reader it cqancels the action in internet exployer. Now the
files are there and it reconizes XML in the extention but it just don't wan to
open it in kurzweil, just started having this problem today, any ideas, I can
write support but have written them in the past but they never answer back.
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