Problem with Wall Street Journal

[gcnorth]

Recently I have been experiencing problems downloading the WSJ. I use the script created here and have a paid subscription. This is the error message I get (abbreviated):

calibre, version 0.8.55
ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Fetch news from The Wall Street Journal

Fetch news from The Wall Street Journal
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.8.55
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': 'original',
'chapter': None,
'chapter_mark': 'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'dont_download_recipe': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'extra_css': None,
'filter_css': None,
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x0394A4B0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'lrf': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x0394A7F0>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'personal_doc': '[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': None,
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': '',
'rescale_images': False,
'search_replace': None,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': '',
'sr1_search': '',
'sr2_replace': '',
'sr2_search': '',
'sr3_replace': '',
'sr3_search': '',
'tags': None,
'test': False,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
Creating AZW Output...
Python function terminated unexpectedly
No module named writer (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 191, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1116, in run
File "calibre_plugins.dummy1.__init__", line 241, in convert
ImportError: No module named writer
Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/fms_metadata.xml/..namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/fms_metadata.xml/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/fms_metadata.xml'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._modern.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%modern.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/modern.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/modern.fon/..namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/modern.fon/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/modern.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/modern.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._roman.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%roman.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/roman.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/roman.fon/..namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/roman.fon/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/roman.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/roman.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/._script.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/%script.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.AppleDouble/script.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/script.fon/..namedfork/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/script.fon/rsrc'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/resource.frk/script.fon'
FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/.resource/script.fon'

[gcnorth]

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to solve this error message problem?

[PeterT]

Take a look through your Windows Fonts directory and clean it up... Looks like there might be a lot of incorrect files in there.

[gcnorth]

Thanks for your response, Peter.
I checked my fonts folder and all seems in order as far as I can tell. I have none of the fonts listed in the error message. What is the script doing at this point when it states "FT_Stream_Open: could not open `C:/Windows/fonts/script.fon/..namedfork/rsrc'?" Why would it be trying to open fonts that I do not have?

[PeterT]

Have you actually looked in the directory itself, or only in the Control Panel?

Open a command prompt and do a cd c:\windows\fonts and then a dir to see the files there.

[gcnorth]

I tried your method and Windows Explorer to view the fonts folder and I do not see any of the fonts that the error message tries to open. I can't download any news sources without error messages. I received the following (abbreviated) error message trying to download Google Reader:
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Creating AZW Output...
Python function terminated unexpectedly
No module named writer (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 132, in main
File "site.py", line 109, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 191, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1116, in run
File "calibre_plugins.dummy1.__init__", line 241, in convert
ImportError: No module named writer

Maybe I should re-install Calibre?

[kovidgoyal]

Got o preferences->plugins and remove the plugin you have installed that is causing that exception.

[gcnorth]

Would this plugin be in Conversion In, Conversion Out, File Type, or some other category? I have only added plugins to the File Type category a while back and never had problems with downloading news sources. Would the problem plugin be indicated in the error message?

[kovidgoyal]

Click the checkbox that say show third part plugins and remove all the plugins you've got. One of your plugins is causing that error.

[gcnorth]

Thanks Kovid, your instructions worked and the news downloads are working.