I don't recall that I set anything in Open Book to get the correct page
breaks. I just scan a page and then scan another page and there is the
page break between them. Sometimes I set a page break myself. If I have
just scanned a page, for example, and I know that the next page is blank
then there is no need to scan the next page. I just go to the bottom of
the page I am on and press control+enter and a page break is inserted
and then I label the next page as blank.
___
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
On 3/18/2020 7:28 PM, Judy wrote:
Hi Roger,
Your scans have all of the correct page breaks in them, though. What did you set in OpenBook for that, do you remember?
Judy
On March 18, 2020 1:51:09 PM CDT, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use Open Book for all of my volunteer activity. It is not good
for formatting or if it is then I don't know how to use it for
those purposes. I use whatever font it uses and if there is a way
to change it I don't know what it is and I rarely even give a
thought to what font it is reading in. Because of this I gave up
proofreading a long time ago and confine myself to scanning and
submitting. I let the proofreader worry about all the formatting.
Once I finish with a book I go to the menus and use the save as
feature to convert it to RTF and save it in the my documents
folder on my computer. From there I upload it to Bookshare.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
“God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson
On 3/18/2020 7:41 AM, Don Elbourne wrote:
Thanks Judy,
I guess I am going to have to abandon OpenOffice and figure
something else out.
Yes, I do use OpenBook. After exporting to RTF, I was using
OpenBook to change the font for Chapters and things. Is there a
way to do that in OpenBook?
What about Google Docs? Does it do the page break thing correctly?
-- by grace alone,
Pastor Don A. Elbourne Jr.
Lakeshore Baptist Church
http://lakeshorebaptist.net
http://rebuildlakeshore.com
On 3/17/2020 9:35 PM, Judy wrote:
Hi Don,
OpenOffice uses this code to force a page break in a document,
instead of using the code for a hard page break.
OpenOffice will always create problems with hard page breaks in
an rtf document by using the "page break before paragraph" code.
There is no way to fix or change this if you use OpenOffice.
OpenOffice programmers have been straightforward about this on
their forum. There is virtually no chance this will ever change.
The same is true for LibreOffice.
It's frustrating. I've used both programs for at least a decade
for everything but files for Bookshare. You just can't use
OpenOffice or LibreOffice to create or edit an RTF file for
Bookshare because of the problem with how these programs mess
with hard page breaks.
If you are having trouble with hard page breaks and formatting
with the OCR software you use, which I recall is OpenBook, this
list is the place to ask for help on how to do that with
OpenBook. I don't think, from what I've learned here, that you
even need a word processor like OpenOffice to create a high
quality rtf file for Bookshare if you have OpenBook.
In pretty sure there are several blind volunteers on this list
who use OpenBook successfully to create rtf documents that have
all of the page breaks and formatting needed for Bookshare
submissions. I'm sure they will be glad to help. smile.
Judy
On March 17, 2020 8:40:19 PM CDT, Don Elbourne
<don@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What does "page break before paragraph page breaks" mean and how do I
fix it?
I use OpenOffice.
