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No one is going to do all this conversion and hand-holding for them when
they get out of academia. It would seem prudent to me to teach them how
to deal with the materials that are available.<br><br>
I know ePub is a change for people, but 15 or 20 years ago, so were PDF's
and people kicked and screamed. ePub's offer a richer, and
inherently more accessible experience over PDF's. There is still
some growing that needs to be done by tools, but they have the potential
to be substantially better!<br><br>
Dave<br><br>
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At 08:46 AM 8/29/2018, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Same here. For most of
them, navigating a PDF is new to them, as surprising as that might
be. Not all young people are tech enthusiasts, as is commonly
believed, so I am trying to put the least amount of stress on them as
possible.<br><br>
<br>
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 9:44 AM Susan Kelmer
<<a href="mailto:Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu">
Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<dd>Andrea, this is basically what we do with Bookshare files.
Most of my sighted students have no interest in learning to navigate a
bookshare file, so we convert to word, add in page numbers and heading
levels (because those do not exist or are poorly done in most bookshare
files) and then convert word to PDF, or just give the student the word
files.<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Isn’t it amazing the hoops we jump through for your
students? This is also why I am so angry about publishers finding
yet another few hoops we have to jump through to get what our students
need. Why are they making things more difficult?<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Susan Kelmer<br>
</i><br>
<dd>Alternate Format Production Program Manager<br>
</i><br>
<dd>Disability Services<br>
</i><br>
<dd>University of Colorado Boulder<br>
</i><br>
<dd>303-735-4836<br>
</i><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>From:</b> athen-list
<<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">
athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>> On Behalf Of
</b>Andrea L. Dietrich<br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:03 AM<br>
<dd>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network
<<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">
athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Converting EPUB to PDF<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>I use a free program called Calibre (also available in a
“portable” version in case you don’t have the ability to install
software on your computers yourself). It’s designed as a general ebook
management program, but it has really good conversion capabilities. The
only issues I’ve had with epub to PDF are that sometimes the conversion
will divide pages in odd places, and that there are usually no original
page numbers to correspond to the hard copy of the book.<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Depending on your time constraints, you might want to convert the
epub to .docx, add page breaks manually in Word, and then convert that
file to PDF so that you can “recreate” the original publisher layout
for the book, but obviously that’s more time-consuming.<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Good luck!<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>-Andi :) <br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>--------------------------<br><br>
<dd>Andrea Dietrich <br><br>
<dd>Cornell University <br><br>
<dd>Student Disability Services <br><br>
<dd>Cornell Health, Level 5<br><br>
<dd>110 Ho Plaza<br><br>
<dd>Ithaca, NY 14853 <br><br>
<dd><a href="http://sds.cornell.edu/">http://sds.cornell.edu</a><br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Tel. 607.254.4545 <br><br>
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<dd> <br><br>
<dd>From:</b> athen-list
<<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu">
athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>> On Behalf Of
</b>Robert Spangler<br>
<dd>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 29, 2018 8:54 AM<br>
<dd>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network
<<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">
athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<dd>Subject:</b> [Athen] Converting EPUB to PDF<br><br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>Hello, is it possible to convert from EPUB to PDF and, if so, how
would I go about doing it? We distribute PDFs only to our students
unless otherwise requested, but a publisher on AccessText is stating that
Epub is the only option available from them.<br><br>
<br>
<dd> <br><br>
<dd>-- <br><br>
<dd>Robert Spangler<br>
<dd>Disability Services Technical Support Specialist<br>
<dd><a href="mailto:rspangler1@udayton.edu">rspangler1@udayton.edu</a><br>
<dd>Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023<br>
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<dd>University of Dayton | 300 College Park | Dayton, Ohio
45469-1302 <br>
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Robert Spangler<br>
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Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023<br>
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