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Old 04-12-2016, 10:01 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
@Hitch - let's say your client writes in Word or Writer. Let's say they've realised that what they sent you has a substantial error - e.g a chapter out of order which screwed up the plot, or made text factually incorrect. So they find something that converts the EPUB to DOCX/ODT that happens to use the DevExp tools, after they've made the necessary changes to the substance of the book in Word/Writer they convert the saved DOCX/ODT back to EPUB using the same tool.

Suggestion : reduce the original and butchered epubs back to plain text and run them through the Beyond Compare washing machine to determine if the actual text of the book has been changed.

BR
Red:

Ooooh, aren't you a clever lad? Indeed. That's an excellent idea. I'll do that as soon as I'm out from under my video-conf. requirements for this week. Naughty thing; you should go into this business. (Well, wait--I wouldn't wish that on anyone, but, what I meant was You'd be very good at scoping out all that bad client behavior.

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