First, lo (do I know my Peeps, or what?), sure enough, Wolfie found one just like it. I'm damned, but...same CSS, same "lump the whole fandangle thing together" (HTML), same everything. And still...nary a clue as to what MADE it. Hmmmm...
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Originally Posted by darryl
I hope this client has paid you! Your description of what is happening does not give me a good feeling.
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Oh,
yes. We're a coin-operated ebook-maker; you put in the coins, and we go. No coins, no going. Lesson learned in a very, very hard way, years ago (in this racket. Who knew it would be rife with folks who are perfectly comfortable ripping you off?).
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Originally Posted by darryl
By the way, one really improbably scenario. Presumably you sent him the completed file by email. Could his email client have mangled the attachment? I did see this once years ago where there was some sort of error related I think to decoding. My recollection is that it was only with the one particular email client and fixed by a reinstallation.
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No, we never send files via eMail except in extraordinary circumstances. Even then, we'll send them via Hightail first. We provide secured download links to them. Yes, the links are sent via email, but the files themselves are not. The links only work if the user logs in from his registered device & IP.
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Originally Posted by signum
Just a suggestion: look up the class name csCF6BBF71 on Google. A software company named DevExpress may be associated with it.
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Hi: Yes, I saw that, too. It's true:
GMTA! (Great Minds Think Alike).
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Originally Posted by BobC
The DevExpress query from 3 years back does come up when I query
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p class="csCF6BBF71"
However most of the hits I get on this are mainly EBay or other e-commerce sites and related to "Obsessive Sexy Lingerie", however if you follow the link and examine the source of the page, what is returned by Google in their search results doesn't seem to be in the page in question.
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Yes! I saw that, also--lots of sexy stuff. (Maybe my client was surfing and...eh, never mind...)
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
I have seen that type of classes before on some shop websites. So, nothing to do with books.
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Yes, but now we have TWO books (ePUBS) with these classes. Like tapioca, the plot thickens.
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Originally Posted by PeterT
I get the feeling it's related to a third party editing control used in a range of tools including some used to build web pages for e-commerce sites.
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Hell, Peter, your guess is as good as mine. I wonder...anyone around here used Dreamweaver anytime lately? Holy crap...could ".cs"= "Creative Suite?" And be from Dreamweaver? I thought about INDD, but...no. Nobody breathing would name their classes like that. Anyone know if ye olden Dreamweaver would create classes like this, for any reason?
Every paragraph, mind you, is text inside a span class inside a p class. The p class sets the alignment, the type of paragraph (text indent, block, etc.) the font size and the margins. The span sets the font color, background color (usu. transparent, mind you...), the font-family, font size (yes, twice now, in both the span and the p class, you're not wrong), font weight and style.
Hitch