Just a note on conversions

[profbutters]

As most of you know, the Exchange is back up, which is good.  However, the conversion process has been a bit delayed for me

Comments

[bellemistoire]

It's sort of there if you bypass the main homepage and go directly to the exchange. If I try and go through the main page I get the down for maintenance message again, but if I go straight to the exchange page, I get the exchange.

[profbutters]

I'm only going through the Boolprop links. It's still tetchy and irritable.

[biglenny]

The Exchange is extremely wonky right now! I'm currently converting BW's Legacy Du Jour, and it does get overly tiring when the Exchange goes down for a few abrupt moments. At least a lot of people managed to get most stuff out from the Exchange.:)

[penguingirl03]

*nods* I was finding those problems as well last night and will be manually inserting the missing images in the few legacies that I've grabbed. Hitting refresh a few times seems to bring the pages back up. And my offer still stands if you want help converting.

[profbutters]

Thank you! I think one of the major problems is that my first few chapters make me cringe. They are that terrible. I have a basic template for all of them; I'd like to slap a nicer cover page on them. I don't like where the conversions place the text, so I have to clean that up. But the real problem with the first several is something only I can fix. I should consider going from the last to the first: the last ones don't bug me as much.

[penguingirl03]

*nods* I can grab/edit the first few if you want me to do so. We all cringe at our first chapters. I decided to leave mine alone (minus fixing some terrible spelling errors) when I put them back up though for the sake of history. :-)

[rosefyre]

Yeah, that's my view: fix the typos, leave the text.

[tatdatcm]

I had similar problems last night as well. I was able to right click on the image, copy it, and paste it into the document though. Then I saved the entire thing as a power point instead of an open office presentation. Seems to work fine that way.

My biggest issue was that slideify couldn't "find" the id's for four of the chapters I was trying to grab. I'm going to try again this evening. I'll do a manual conversion if I can't get it to work. Time consuming, but worth it IMO.

[profbutters]

Sometimes it works if you wait for a while, then type the chapter number in manually. Try that first.