Comment 8 for bug 340203

Hank, thanks very much for this reply.

I was and am having a lot of grave doubts about doing the
handedness this way.

However, i think the new book reader handles it in stride---
it opens right to the "back" [rightmost] page and
you can step through it flipping the pages leftward. And
the 1-up in the new book reader also works.

The republisher prefers that the first page have a certain
handedness, but it is software, and so we can fix that i'm sure.

I have the code snapshotted, so i guess what i will do is
try it out the other way and distribute something.

dan

PS: Thanks for replying directly through the bug report
mechanism so that we can capture all of this.

> I don't know specifically that it would break anything besides the pdf
> (which, as you say, you could fix), but it does seem undesirable to me
> to reverse the handedness tags in this way. If a page appears on the
> left half of a spread in the original book, I'd think we'd want the
> scandata to say "left", not "right."
>
> How involved would it be to fix RePublisher, or otherwise work around
> the difficulties it has with right-to-left books? That seems a better
> solution than having to do the opposite of what scandata handedness
> indicates when rotating the image, when making the pdf, and when doing
> anything else that might depend on the handedness info (the bookreader?
> djvu?).
>
> --
> right to left in scribe scanning- for yiddish, korean,, ect text
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