Hi Judy,
Thanks for that info. I suppose it wouldn’t be helpful to use Arial in the
first place. I’ll go back to Times New Roman as it seems to work the best but
if I ever have a problem with it I’ll try Arial.
By the way the canned message at the beginning of the file relating to proper
use of the book shows “no font”.
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Judy
Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 11:09 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tahoma versus Times New Roman
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
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<mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Misha
Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 6:40 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.
