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Old 04-14-2008, 10:56 PM   #16
nrapallo
GuteBook/Mobi2IMP Creator
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Device: REB1200 EBW1150 Device: T1 NSTG iLiad_v2 NC Device: Asus_TF Next1 WPDN
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Originally Posted by zerospinboson View Post
Creating file ... failed, error details follow.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "output.pyc", line 140, in generate_imp
File "win32com\client\__init__.pyc", line 95, in Dispatch
File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyc", line 98, in _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
File "win32com\client\dynamic.pyc", line 78, in _GetGoodDispatch
com_error: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None)

Creating Mobipocket ebook ... done.

can anyone tell me what might be going wrong here?
I see that you have an iLiad, and presume you are trying to produce a .prc file.

The only caveat here is that it needs some free software installed to produce the .opf file that is used by 'opf2mobi.exe' to produce the .prc.

Now, I looked at my documentation and I couldn't easily find reference to this. Sorry, I will make this more prominent now!
REQUIRED: You must have the eBook Publisher software previously installed to facilitate the conversions to .imp, .oeb and .prc.
BTW, the error you saw refers to a windows .dll interface call that failed (it was called from 'generate_imp' enroute to creating the .prc). You can install the (free) eBook Publisher software by going here. Then choose to download and install the current version ( Win_eBookPub_2.2.5.exe ).

p.s. there is a current limitation on image sizes (480 max. width) built into the 'opf2mobi.exe' program I am using. This causes larger white margins than it should. I will remove this restriction in the next release and replace 'opf2mobi' with html2mobi' to avoid the use of eBook Publisher when converting to .prc!

Last edited by nrapallo; 04-17-2008 at 08:22 AM. Reason: no longer require eBook Publisher for conversion to .prc
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