[bksvol-discuss] Re: file conversion question, txt file dilemma

  • From: "Robert Riddle" <captinlogic@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:55:04 -0500

TXT can't hold any formatting such as itallics and page breaks. So just saving 
as an rtf won't fix that. Likewise, the rtf's you want must contain at least 
page breaks. So looks like you're outa luck.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jamie Prater 
  To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Cc: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 7:41 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] file conversion question, txt file dilemma


  Hi, all, I've heard from at least one reliable source that .txt files can't 
be used on bookshare and if they are saved as rtf files, they'll lose 
formatting.  The file I have, I had to save to this format because the book 
wouldn't read properly with pdf adobe and jaws, and while I was getting signed 
up as a bookshare member, I was told I could submit txt files by a bookshare 
staff member.  I believe my reliable source that says you can't submit .txt 
files to bookshare, I just wanted to ask out here as well to see if there's any 
hope at all whatsoever as I've got a friend who has quite a few books on txt as 
well as rtf and a few ark's, and all totaled, she has a sizable collection that 
I'd love to see added to the bookshare library.  Any suggestions or light on 
the subject would be greatly appreciated as neither of us felt that it would be 
a problem to save files this way or we would have saved them originally as rtf 
so they would be appropriate for bookshare.  Thanks a bunch and have a blessed 
day.

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