Comment 3 for bug 340203

thanks dan!

robert

danh wrote:
> >From conversation with Robert, our intention is for the books
> to be scanned starting with the right cover and working left.
>
> Hank has made some recommendations for this project,
> which we intend to try out:
>
> * add a checkbox for "right-to-left book" on the biblio item-loading screen at
> http://www.us.archive.org/biblio; the effect should be to prepopulate the
> Metaform with the appropriate value (in this case, page-progression = rl), just
> as we already do for the other input fields on the biblio screen
> (scanningcenter, collection, contributor, sponsor)
>
> * at the outset of imaging, check for page-progression = rl in meta.xml, and if
> present, set a flag; then on lines 225 and 236 of
> petabox/www/datanode/scribe/ScriblioProcess.inc, we set the 'num' value
> accordingly (currently the right image unconditionally gets the +1; if the rl
> flag is set, we just +1 the left image instead)
>
> He then says that he "think[s] the 'num' value then propagates through
> jpg and jp2 creation".
>
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