Conversion to Mobi fails with 1.7

10-20-2013, 08:42 PM	#1
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,037 Karma: 129333114 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Conversion to Mobi fails with 1.7 I tried converting ePub and AZW3 to Mobi and both times failed. Here is one of the logs from one of the failures. Spoiler: calibre, version 1.7.0 (win32, isfrozen: True) Conversion Error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (The Charlie Parker Collection 5-8: The Black Angel, The Unquiet, The Reapers, The Lovers) Convert book 1 of 1 (The Charlie Parker Collection 5-8: The Black Angel, The Unquiet, The Reapers, The Lovers) Resolved conversion options calibre version: 1.7.0 {'asciiize': False, 'author_sort': None, 'authors': None, 'base_font_size': 0.0, 'book_producer': None, 'change_justification': u'original', 'chapter': u"//[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s((chapter\|book\|section\|part)\\s+)\|((prolog\|pr ologue\|epilogue)(\\s+\|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']", 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak', 'comments': None, 'cover': u'C:\\Users\\Jon\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_t1 wmzo\\0csrky.jpeg', 'debug_pipeline': None, 'dehyphenate': False, 'delete_blank_paragraphs': False, 'disable_font_rescaling': False, 'dont_compress': False, 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False, 'embed_all_fonts': False, 'embed_font_family': None, 'enable_heuristics': False, 'expand_css': False, 'extra_css': None, 'extract_to': None, 'filter_css': u'', 'fix_indents': False, 'font_size_mapping': None, 'format_scene_breaks': False, 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4, 'input_encoding': None, 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderInput object at 0x03735F30>, 'insert_blank_line': False, 'insert_blank_line_size': 0.0, 'insert_metadata': False, 'isbn': None, 'italicize_common_cases': False, 'keep_ligatures': False, 'language': None, 'level1_toc': None, 'level2_toc': None, 'level3_toc': None, 'line_height': 0.0, 'linearize_tables': False, 'margin_bottom': -0.1, 'margin_left': -0.1, 'margin_right': -0.1, 'margin_top': -0.1, 'markup_chapter_headings': False, 'max_toc_links': 50, 'minimum_line_height': 100.0, 'mobi_file_type': u'old', 'mobi_ignore_margins': False, 'mobi_keep_original_images': False, 'mobi_toc_at_start': False, 'no_chapters_in_toc': False, 'no_inline_navbars': False, 'no_inline_toc': False, 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.TabletOutput object at 0x0373F390>, 'page_breaks_before': u'/', 'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]', 'prefer_author_sort': False, 'prefer_metadata_cover': False, 'pretty_print': False, 'pubdate': None, 'publisher': None, 'rating': None, 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\Jon\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_t1 wmzo\\xtfcs0.opf', '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': u'', 'search_replace': '[]', 'series': None, 'series_index': None, 'share_not_sync': False, 'smarten_punctuation': False, 'sr1_replace': None, 'sr1_search': None, 'sr2_replace': None, 'sr2_search': None, 'sr3_replace': None, 'sr3_search': None, 'start_reading_at': None, 'subset_embedded_fonts': True, 'tags': None, 'timestamp': None, 'title': None, 'title_sort': None, 'toc_filter': None, 'toc_threshold': 6, 'toc_title': None, 'unsmarten_punctuation': False, 'unwrap_lines': True, 'use_auto_toc': False, 'verbose': 2} InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running on C:\Users\Jon\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_t1wmzo\war fj6.azw3 Found KF8 MOBI of type 'standalone' Extracting text... Parsing all content... Parsing text/part0046.html ... Parsing text/part0180.html ... Parsing text/part0018.html ... Parsing text/part0143.html ... Parsing text/part0019.html ... Parsing text/part0085.html ... Parsing text/part0118.html ... Parsing text/part0003.html ... Initial parse failed, using more forgiving parsers Parsing text/part0003.html as HTML Parsing text/part0020.html ... Parsing text/part0129.html ... Parsing text/part0139.html ... Parsing text/part0155.html ... Parsing text/part0136.html ... Parsing text/part0021.html ... Parsing text/part0162.html ... Parsing text/part0022.html ... Parsing text/part0125.html ... Parsing text/part0023.html ... Parsing text/part0190.html ... Parsing text/part0156.html ... Parsing text/part0083.html ... Parsing text/part0024.html ... Parsing text/part0174.html ... Parsing text/part0025.html ... Parsing text/part0142.html ... Parsing text/part0086.html ... Parsing text/part0004.html ... Initial parse failed, using more forgiving parsers Parsing text/part0004.html as HTML Parsing text/part0026.html ... Parsing text/part0130.html ... Parsing text/part0137.html ... Parsing text/part0027.html ... Parsing text/part0169.html ... Parsing text/part0189.html ... Parsing text/part0163.html ... Parsing text/part0028.html ... Parsing text/part0186.html ... Parsing text/part0062.html ... Parsing text/part0029.html ... Parsing text/part0030.html ... Parsing text/part0164.html ... Parsing text/part0148.html ... Parsing text/part0031.html ... Parsing text/part0087.html ... Parsing text/part0119.html ... Parsing text/part0080.html ... Parsing text/part0032.html ... Parsing text/part0166.html ... Parsing text/part0131.html ... Parsing text/part0073.html ... Parsing text/part0160.html ... Parsing text/part0158.html ... Parsing text/part0138.html ... Parsing text/part0033.html ... Parsing text/part0089.html ... Parsing text/part0175.html ... Parsing text/part0034.html ... 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Parsing text/part0084.html ... Parsing text/part0079.html ... Parsing text/part0123.html ... Parsing text/part0069.html ... Parsing text/part0157.html ... Parsing text/part0101.html ... Parsing text/part0005.html ... Parsing text/part0124.html ... Parsing text/part0070.html ... Parsing text/part0102.html ... Parsing text/part0006.html ... Parsing text/part0039.html ... Parsing text/part0133.html ... Parsing text/part0040.html ... Parsing text/part0103.html ... Parsing text/part0007.html ... Parsing text/part0041.html ... Parsing text/part0134.html ... Parsing text/part0140.html ... Parsing text/part0002.html ... Initial parse failed, using more forgiving parsers Parsing text/part0002.html as HTML Parsing text/part0042.html ... Parsing text/part0104.html ... Parsing text/part0008.html ... Parsing text/part0043.html ... Parsing text/part0044.html ... Initial parse failed, using more forgiving parsers Parsing text/part0044.html as HTML Parsing text/part0105.html ... 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Parsing text/part0055.html ... Parsing text/part0167.html ... Parsing text/part0056.html ... Parsing text/part0111.html ... Parsing text/part0090.html ... Parsing text/part0057.html ... Parsing text/part0151.html ... Parsing text/part0016.html ... Parsing text/part0112.html ... Parsing text/part0091.html ... Parsing text/part0059.html ... Parsing text/part0017.html ... Parsing text/part0181.html ... Parsing text/part0060.html ... Referenced file u'text/page-template.xpgt' not found Reading TOC from NCX... Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Source base font size is 12.00000pt Removing fake margins... Found 7334 items of level: div_1 Found 1 items of level: div_2 Found 6735 items of level: p_1 div_1 left margin stats: Counter() div_1 right margin stats: Counter() div_2 left margin stats: Counter() div_2 right margin stats: Counter() p_1 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 6733, u'6.8em': 1, u'2.8em': 1}) p_1 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 6735}) No embedded fonts found Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Trimming u'images/00004.jpeg' from manifest Creating MOBI Output... Serializing resources... Creating MOBI 6 output Applying case-transforming CSS... Parsing manglecase.css ... Rasterizing SVG images... Converting XHTML to Mobipocket markup... Python function terminated unexpectedly 'float' object has no attribute 'lower' (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 189, in main File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1189, in run File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\mobi_ou tput.py", line 202, in convert File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\mobi_ou tput.py", line 234, in write_mobi File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\mobiml.py", line 113, in __call__ File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\mobiml.py", line 124, in mobimlize_spine File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\mobiml.py", line 545, in mobimlize_elem File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\mobiml.py", line 545, in mobimlize_elem File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\mobiml.py", line 545, in mobimlize_elem File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\mobi\mobiml.py", line 385, in mobimlize_elem AttributeError: 'float' object has no attribute 'lower'

10-20-2013, 08:53 PM	#2
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,818 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	is there a float: lower in the CSS? this is not valid

10-20-2013, 09:09 PM	#3
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,037 Karma: 129333114 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	There is no float: lower in this eBook.

10-20-2013, 09:42 PM

theducks

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is no float: lower in this eBook.

Must be a parsing error then. You can see what the last line says

10-20-2013, 10:30 PM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,871 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That error indicates your book has a font-family: with a number in it somewhere.

10-20-2013, 10:54 PM	#6
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,037 Karma: 129333114 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I'll have a look at the CSS tomorrow and see what I can find. Thanks for the help.

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