Hi Terry,
Bookshare converts all books to a standard Arial font. It's set in the
css file that is created for the daisy books.
Using the fonts Times New Roman, Tahoma and Arial in the files we submit
ensures that stuff like diacritical marks are converted correctly from
the rtf file by Bookshare's conversion software. If you use other fonts,
special characters like those may convert as total gibberish. I used to
use some other fonts, and found out this out when I looked at the
version of the book that was then in the collection. The only way I
could fix it was to resubmit the book in one of those three fonts.
Judy s.
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On 3/6/2021 10:40 PM, t.gorman (Redacted sender t.gorman for DMARC) wrote:
Thanks Misha. After reading your reply I checked on two books I submitted. One was submitted in Times New Roman and the other was submitted in Tahoma. Both came out as Arial. These were DAISY downloads. Because the manual said that any of three fonts were permitted, I assumed the fonts were retained as submitted but I can say at least that my downloads came as Arial. Any thoughts?
I’ve always found fonts interesting from Optacon days of the 1970s but never thought to check as I am a blind reader.
*From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On Behalf Of *Misha
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*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tahoma versus Times New Roman
I am pretty sure you can use any font in the copy of the book you upload to bookshare. The system bookshare uses to convert from the rtf files we upload to the DAISY files downloaded by members converts everything to the same font (which I have heard is times new roman, but I am not a member so I cannot verify that). To make all the text fit on one page it is fine to change the margins and/or page size bucause those also are set to some standard values by the bookshare conversion system.
Good luck
Misha
On Mar 6, 2021, 16:18 -0700, t.gorman <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>, wrote:
Hi everyone,
A few months ago I learned from this list that Tahoma is preferred
by large print readers to Times New Roman. Since then I’ve tried
to make books be on Tahoma. But I’m finding that some book pages
fill beyond the one-page-per-page size when I shift a book from
TNR to Tahoma. Has anyone experienced this and is there a fix? For
example, could I legitimately change the margins to zero if this
would allow the pages which did fit in TNR to fit in Tahoma?
To say it another way, a page of material, when shifted from TNR
to Tahoma causes the text to spill partly onto another page.
