Calibre ePUB to LRF

[crutledge]

In approximately 1/3 of the conversions of Sigil ePub to LRF, all headers and other items formatted as "CENTER" show up as left justified. The formatting is essentially identical in all files. At least from my checks.

Before i post an issue, I would like to know if I'm doing something wrong. I would appreciate a Calibre expert checking the files.

Attached are the ePub and the LRF output from Calibre.

Thanks

[kovidgoyal]

LRF output is no longer maintained, so you're on your own.

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

LRF output is no longer maintained, so you're on your own.

Gee!!! Thanks.

[Pablo]

For LRF output nothing beats BookDesigner.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by crutledge

In approximately 1/3 of the conversions of Sigil ePub to LRF, all headers and other items formatted as "CENTER" show up as left justified. The formatting is essentially identical in all files. At least from my checks.

If you have a second machine or virtual machine you might want to try calibre 0.5.14 this version had the best conversion to lrf. After 0.6 epub prevailed and calibre was swapped over to a plugin system so all the 100s of hours of code on conversion to lrf that was built into 0.5.14 didn't make the transition to a plugin format. This version is not compatible with the current database in any way but should work well for stand alone conversions.

If you Google it you can still find it out there, it is about 25meg and a exe file.

Good Luck.

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

If you have a second machine or virtual machine you might want to try calibre 0.5.14 this version had the best conversion to lrf. After 0.6 epub prevailed and calibre was swapped over to a plugin system so all the 100s of hours of code on conversion to lrf that was built into 0.5.14 didn't make the transition to a plugin format. This version is not compatible with the current database in any way but should work well for stand alone conversions.

If you Google it you can still find it out there, it is about 25meg and a exe file.

Good Luck.

Thank you very much. I don't know why support for LRF would be dropped and yet continue to publish a tool which obviously flawed.

Is LRF supposed to be gone? Readers continue to download LRF books I post.
I think I have read that SONY now supports ePub.

I haven't found Calibre v. 0.5.14 but will continue to search and use it until I'm convinced LRF is now gone.

[ldolse]

Originally Posted by crutledge

Thank you very much. I don't know why support for LRF would be dropped and yet continue to publish a tool which obviously flawed.

Is LRF supposed to be gone? Readers continue to download LRF books I post.
I think I have read that SONY now supports ePub.

I haven't found Calibre v. 0.5.14 but will continue to search and use it until I'm convinced LRF is now gone.

Sony discontinued LRF as their primary format some years back in favor of epub. LRF is only supported for backward compatibility purposes. Most likely the reason some users still download it is that on older readers like the PRS-505 LRF supports full justification and epub doesn't. Either that or the users just don't know any better.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by crutledge

Thank you very much. I don't know why support for LRF would be dropped and yet continue to publish a tool which obviously flawed.

Calibre's goal is conversion of books into a readable format. It isn't a ebook creation or ebook publishing tool.

Originally Posted by crutledge

Is LRF supposed to be gone? Readers continue to download LRF books I post. I think I have read that SONY now supports ePub.

Yes LRF is gone, Sony switched its store entirely to ePub over a year ago (Dec 09).

Originally Posted by crutledge

I haven't found Calibre v. 0.5.14 but will continue to search and use it until I'm convinced LRF is now gone.

You can find a copy here in post 76. (Keep in mind that 0.5.2 thru 0.5.9 were beta for 0.6.0)

[PsyWiped]

Windows 7 x64 python 2.7 calibre 0.7.9

ERROR: ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>DatabaseException</b>:unable to open database file
RemoteTraceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\library\sqlite.py", line 157, in run
OperationalError: unable to open database file

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 869, in dispatch_sync_event
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\device.py", line 1237, in sync_to_device
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions.py", line 1021, in auto_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tools.py", line 42, in convert_single_ebook
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\single.py", line 252, in accept
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\metadata.py", line 213, in commit
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 958, in set_metadata
File "site-packages\calibre\library\database2.py", line 1047, in set_authors
File "site-packages\calibre\library\sqlite.py", line 193, in run
DatabaseException: unable to open database file
RemoteTraceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\library\sqlite.py", line 157, in run
OperationalError: unable to open database file

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by PsyWiped

Windows 7 x64 python 2.7 calibre 0.7.9

This version is 37 versions out of date. The newest version is 0.7.46, think of 0.7.9 as 0.7.09.

Update to the newest version and report back if you have the same error.

[crutledge]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

This version is 37 versions out of date. The newest version is 0.7.46, think of 0.7.9 as 0.7.09.

Update to the newest version and report back if you have the same error.

this is from v. 0.7.46.