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Formatting documents from a scanned original source
Thread poster: Christopher Farley
Christopher Farley Switzerland Local time: 05:43 Italian to English + ...
Nov 5, 2019
Good morning everyone.
I translated a document (CafeTran) from a Word document which was a converted (and scanned) PDF original. That original had vertical lines either side of the text and my translation has followed suit. The only problem now is that I have to merge the original and translated documents in a two column document and I can't get rid of the lines on my translated document.
Any advice please?
Thank you.
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Samuel Murray Netherlands Local time: 05:43 Member (2006) English to Afrikaans + ...
Maybe...
Nov 5, 2019
Christopher Farley wrote: That original had vertical lines either side of the text...
MS Word sometimes creates lines by creating a style that includes the line as a border (e.g. if you type -----, MS Word sometimes converts it to a long line that you will not be able to delete, because it is actually a paragraph with a border).
In Word, go to the "styles" and see if you can find a style that adds the line. Delete the style.
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esperantisto Local time: 07:43 Member (2006) English to Russian + ...
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Nov 5, 2019
Try opening the document in Apache OpenOffice / LibreOffice Writer, open the Navigator (F5) and see the list of objects available. Or simply try to click on the lines to select and delete.
Kevin Fulton
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Christopher Farley Switzerland Local time: 05:43 Italian to English + ...
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Translating documents from a scanned original source
Nov 5, 2019
Thank you Samuel, that seems to have done the trick.
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