Hi!!

Greetings from shy lurker and newbie:D. Love to all fabulous contributors in this forums. Kudos to mobileread admins.Congratulations to kovidgoyal for the fab Calibre.

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Have been playing with it.

Having probs with converting some of pdb books :chinscratch: Eg:

Convert book 1 of 1 (Schwartz_s Principles of Surger)
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_justify': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x051CB1F0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x051CB3B0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'print_formatted_paras': False,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\users\\owner\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibre_0 .6.31_szvzzi.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'single_line_paras': False,
'tags': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: PDB Input running
on C:\Users\OWNER\Calibre Library\Schwartz\Schwartz_s Principles of Surger (8)\Schwartz_s Principles of Surger - Schwartz.pdb
Python function terminated unexpectedly
No reader available for format within container.
Identity is SDocSilX. Book type is iSilo 3 (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 90, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 21, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 736, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 208, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\pdb\input.py", line 39, in convert
calibre.ebooks.pdb.PDBError: No reader available for format within container.
Identity is SDocSilX. Book type is iSilo 3


please help!:help:

Wish everybody happy new year 2010 and next decade.

More info: Used latest: calibre-0.6.31 PC:Windows Vista 32 bit

Please let me know if you need any more info. Thanks.

I suspect that the file is in a format that Calibre cannot handle. The .pdb extension just indicates a container type (rather like .xip) and says nothing about the format of the data within the file.

...
calibre.ebooks.pdb.PDBError: No reader available for format within container.
Identity is SDocSilX. Book type is iSilo 3

iSilo is not a support format.

Appreciate your comments.

Could u please indicate whether there is going to be any calibre support for isilo format in the future? cos there are lot of academic books in this format.

I really would like any suggestions to get around this problem. I cant afford isilo (live overseas). :o

Thank u:bookworm:

^BUMP :bulb2:

Request the forum readers / calibre developers give some ideas.

Thanks.....

There are currently no plans to support iSilo (any version) as a conversion format in calibre.

Thank you for replying.