need help from PS book writers

[catarina]

Hi everyone,

I need help from those in PS that are familiar with writing books, specifically multiples of the same book. I am working on a project that requires several copies of the same thing to be 'created'. I have the 'Master Copy' in my inventory right now, it is as I want it to be in subsequent copies, and has been saved to my hard drive. I tried buying a blank book from Jayose and 'loading' the saved book information into the blank book... it said that it had loaded successfully, but the blank book remained blank. Am I doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

~rina

[Prolix]

once you load it you have to save it as well.

[catarina]

once you load it you have to save it as well.

But when I loaded the file from my computer into the blank book I had purchased... nothing showed up in the 'book' itself.... the page was just blank.. is that normal? Would it only show up after loading and -then- saving the information to the previously blank book?

~rina

[Caarrie]

are you sure you typed in the correct name of the file when you went to load it? and are you sure the book got saved to the file to start?

[catarina]

are you sure you typed in the correct name of the file when you went to load it? and are you sure the book got saved to the file to start?

Yes to both questions. I had checked before-hand on my computer in the area that books get saved to and it is there. I even typed, in PS, the proper upper/lower case letters of the file name, and, as I said, a message came up on the screen saying that it loaded successfully... but...no text showed up in the blank book that I tried to load the file into. *big shrug*

~rina

[Waylander]

Kay, check the actual file and make sure it got saved properly.

Try resaving it and reloading it.

Any chance you could tell us the name of the book?

[catarina]

Kay, check the actual file and make sure it got saved properly.

Try resaving it and reloading it.

Any chance you could tell us the name of the book?

It is the strangest thing.... I just went to Jayose and tried again with a blank book to load the book I had saved to a file on my computer, and the text showed up in the blank book from the original. I guess it was just a glitch that it didn't show up the first time?
Another question about this, however....it is possible to have more than one of the same book in your inventory of the same name? Or do you have to name each of them something slightly different?

~rina

[Waylander]

Slightly different.  Can't have duplicate items, as far as I know

[miadon]

they have to have different names which is why people add a number in brackets at the end of book titles.

[Lolitra, Celorrim Purrty Twins]

Catarina

You need to make sure that you call it by the full name when you load - "BookName.txt"

[LigH]

Example:

There is a book which was originally called "Herbs and more around Hydlaa". After saving, this will be called "Herbs and more around Hydlaa.txt". Hard to type when loading.

Copy it to "herbs.txt", buy a fresh "empty book", edit it, load "herbs.txt", and another copy is ready for Solita Desolo.

[catarina]

Thanks to everyone for all of the help. I have finally managed to figure it out!

~rina