Romance Fiction Mini-Corpus, Step 3

After you receive your approved text back from your instructor, you should use PDF-XChange Viewer to start preparing a PDF file with searchable text.

0) Start with your original PDF file containing pure graphics (pictures, but no selectable text).

1) Use the Text Box Tool to create a giant text box in a text-free area of page 1. Make sure you have chosen the correct font size for the first speech bubble and center your text. Use these settings as default choices.

2) Paste the text of Page 1 into the giant text box.

3) Create several more text boxes, one for each speech bubble or block of descriptive text. Don't worry about the exact size or position. You will tweak the boxes when you finish.

4) Go back to the giant text box. Select the text of the first speech bubble. Press Ctrl-C to copy.

5) Press Ctrl-V to paste the text into the first speech bubble. 

6) Repeat Steps 4 & 5: Copy-Paste the text of each speech bubble or block of descriptive text

7) Finally, adjust the size and position of each speech bubble. When a line is too long, be sure to group related words into appropriate syntax groups (Noun Phrases, Verb Phrases, Preposition Phrases  etc.: NP, VP, PP etc.).

0) Start with your original PDF file

Using PDF-XChange Viewer (Customization)

Before you begin to enter text into the PDF file, you need to customize the PDF-XChange Viewer interface.

1) First, remove unnecessary toolbars. This will give you more space.

2) Then, add only the commands that you really need. This will make your work more efficient.

First, remove unnecessary toolbars

Romance Fiction Mini-Corpus, Steps 1~3 (Love My Dogs: Sample Text)

Step 1: Each student is responsible for typing up one short text from a collection of Golden Age Comics. The texts should be typed using a free text processor such as NoteTab (NOT Microsoft Word).


Step 2: Your text should be proofread for errors in punctuation, capitalization and other miscellaneous errors and uploaded page by page to the Romance Fiction Mini-Corpus web pages based on the first letter of your story title (i.e. "Love My Dogs" should be uploaded to the I-L section). Your teacher will do some some more processing and return the raw text to you.


Step 3: The raw text will be turned into a PDF file. You should use the Text Box Tool in the free version of PDF-XChange Viewer to produce a PDF file with crisp, clean searchable text segmented for improved readability: when lines are too long, use the syntactic structure rules you have learned to break them up long lines into noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases etc. (NP, VP, PP etc.).

Here is page 1 of the original purely graphical version of "Love My Dogs" (a three page love story), followed by the pure text version and the PDF version.

 "Love My Dogs" (page 1, graphic version)