[duxuser] Re: Problem with a Duxbury for DOS file

  • From: "Lloyd G. Rasmussen" <lras@xxxxxxx>
  • To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:01:18 -0500

You may have to deal with it in two parts, then put them back together.
The preliminary pages might have been done one way, and the remaining text
another.  And this process might not work well at all whenever people added
a 26th line to pages which were mostly 25 lines long.

At 11:42 AM 11/22/02 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I have to fix a problem in a volume of a book that was originally
>transcribed using Duxbury for DOS in 1996. I can open the volume file by
>importing it as formatted Braille, and the actual problem is easily fixed.
>However, when I look at the file all the running headers andBraille and
>print page numbers are completely in the wrong places. The first six pages
>or so are fine and then the rest are just completely out of whack. I have a
>paper copy of the volume and it looks fine, so I'm assuming I'm doing
>something wrong in the importation process. So, after all this, the
>question is, can anyone tell me how to open this file so that it looks
>correct?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Nadine.
>
>
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