What's the issue? rtf => mobi

[penguinaka]

I'm doing a fairly large conversion and i seem to have around 300+ .rtf's that have this same issue below. Anyone have an idea for a fix so i can run it as a batch rather than re-saving each one as a different file type?


Convert book 53 of 3813 (The Privateer)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.59
{'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(., 'chapter|book|section|part|prologue|epilogue\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'enable_heuristics': False,
'extra_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 0x0572A1F0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'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': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': 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.OutputProfile object at 0x0572A3D0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'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\\brian\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibre_ 0.7.59_tmp_6ahkaj\\calibre_0.7.59_klewav.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'',
'rescale_images': False,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: RTF Input running
on C:\Users\Brian\Documents\Calibre Library\S. M. Stirling\The Privateer (18330)\The Privateer - S. M. Stirling.rtf
Converting RTF to XML...
Python function terminated unexpectedly

Invalid RTF: document doesn't start with {

Exception in token processing (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 119, 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 920, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 204, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\rtf\input.py", line 270, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\rtf\input.py", line 132, in generate_xml
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\rtf2xml\ParseRtf.py", line 252, in parse_rtf
calibre.ebooks.rtf2xml.ParseRtf.InvalidRtfExceptio n:
Invalid RTF: document doesn't start with {

Exception in token processing

[DoctorOhh]

Check out this thread.

[ldolse]

Since you have so many with the error, another theory I didn't mention in the other thread is that there is a strong likelihood that the files aren't rtf at all, they're .txt using the wrong extension. Batch re-naming would be easier with 300 files than using MS Word one by one, so give renaming a shot too.

[penguinaka]

@dwanthny ty for the link

@Idolse thanks for the input

What I found out is the documents were saved in a different encoding than calibre is used to converting. Because when you open them with word pad or ms word a dialog box pops up asks you to choose a encoding type. After that is done if you then "save as" over top of the file as a rtf again. At the top of the page in word on the bar by the title it will change to say for example.

The Island - Gene Wolfe.rtf(Compatibility Mode) - Microsoft Word

After that the file will convert just fine. What i had to do in order to work down the list of non nonverted errors and find them very quickly was go to mobi which i had converted to and rate everything that got converted (mobi) with a star and then sort for non stars in all formats and work down the list