Conversion of comics (CBR/CBZ)

[mtutalo]

I am trying to get the Providence Journal at www.projo.com but am not getting any articles. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Here is my Recipe:

import re
from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe


class ProvidenceJournal(BasicNewsRecipe):

title = 'Providence Journal'
description = 'RI news'
__author__ = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
use_embedded_content = False
max_articles_per_feed = 20
language = 'en'


remove_javascript = True
no_stylesheets = True

extra_css = '''
#articleCopyright { font-family:Arial,helvetica,sans-serif ; font-weight:bold ; font-size:x-small ;}
p { font-family:"Times New Roman",times,serif ; font-weight:normal ; font-size:small ;}
body{font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif}
'''

feeds = [ ('Today\'s Highlights', 'http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projolocalnews.xml'),
('Politics', 'http://politicsblog.projo.com/index.xml'),
('7 to 7: Rhode Island\'s breaking news blog', 'http://newsblog.projo.com/index.xml'),
('Music', 'http://www.projo.com/newskiosk/rss/projomusic.xml')

]




remove_tags = [{'id':['pfmnav', 'ArticleCommentsWrapper']}]


def get_article_url(self, article):
return article.get('guid', article.get('link', None))

def print_version(self, url):
return url.rpartition('.')[0] + '_pf.html'

def postprocess_html(self, soup, first):
for div in soup.findAll(name='div', style=re.compile('margin')):
div['style'] = ''
return soup

[kovidgoyal]

@Timmy: If your comics are very large to begin with, that's pretty much the best you can expect

@mtutalo: try posting in the custom recipes threads, that's where all the chefs hang out

[Katosen]

Thank you guys so much for this feature! It is amazing!

[tarugo]

Hi there,

I'm new in kindle/conversion world.. so... please !

And english is not my natural language, please try to be patience!

Well, i'm trying to convert a .cbz manga (one piece, in fact) for my Kindle 2 (6") .. the conversion goas Ok, but i had a problem with the size of the pages...

Is to small, and i dont know why?! i try a fill things to change this.. but any success... the strange thing is... the COVER page is really OK! The size and everything.. but the rest is too small, i cant barely read...

Some pics to show what i try to explain:

http://twitpic.com/zsq97 (The Cover one)

http://twitpic.com/zsqfk (Normal Page)

PS. It's a portuguese, by the way.

[Over]

Probably those manga pages have white margins, that's why they appear smaller. Removing those margins would be the best option.

Bem vindo.

[tarugo]

Haha, Obrigado @Over !

Well, the best way i found to convert mangá, has the Mangle software (http://foosoft.net/mangle/) because, converts to a folder with .gif images in sequence and i can read in fullscreen on kindle.

Maybe has a good idea to add this feature, to convert comics in a folder with images, is easy..

and the calibre is much better for make a workflow with many conversions to do... =D

And... i can use on my mac, without need to login on windows ()

[Ladyrixx]

It might be what you're converting them into as well. If I convert to .fb2 I get tiny pages, if I convert my manga to .epub, they read just fine. (Mind you, I have no idea if a Kindle can read .epubs...)

[tarugo]

Yeah, that's the problem.. Kindle cant read any of these (Epub i know, it cant)
And i got i fill options...

Convert .cbz to .pdf dosent seems to work.
And the .mobi is too small...

[SallySyrup]

A lot of the manga I have are in zip files. When I change the extension to cbz and add them to calibre sometimes they are still recognoized as zip files. Does it matter if the images in the files are png or jpeg? I noticed most of the ones that are showing up as zips have pngs and after I convert them to jpegs, it works. But, doing that for each file is a pain.

[kovidgoyal]

That shouldn't happen. Open a ticket and attach one of these zip files that contain PNGs

[SallySyrup]

I opened a ticket. Couldn't directly attach my file. Its 5.01mb, said it was too big. I uploaded it on yousendit. I put the link in the ticket.
Here it is here too.
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...UnJsUjlMWEE9PQ

[Ladyrixx]

The last two releases, when I try to convert .cbz to .epub it won't work. It goes super fast (unlike before, and doesn't say rendering.....png, just the "creating html output") The first page works fine, all the subsequent pages won't work in an external viewer/my ebook reader. I can convert to other formats just fine.

[re838uk]

Can someone explain how i can fix this error? Using 0.6.43.

Convert book 4 of 123 (004 Fantastic Four 536)
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'chapter': None,
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'colors': 256,
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'despeckle': False,
'disable_font_rescaling': True,
'disable_trim': False,
'dont_justify': True,
'dont_normalize': False,
'dont_sharpen': False,
'enable_autorotation': False,
'extra_css': None,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header': False,
'header_format': u'%t by %a',
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header_separation': 0.0,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x051475B0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'keep_aspect_ratio': False,
'landscape': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 0,
'margin_left': 0,
'margin_right': 0,
'margin_top': 0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_indent': 0.0,
'mono_family': u'None',
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'no_process': False,
'no_sort': False,
'output_format': 'png',
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderOutput object at 0x05147790>,
'page_breaks_before': None,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\users\\john2\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibre_0 .6.43_apxt0t.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'render_tables_as_images': False,
'right2left': False,
'sans_family': u'None',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'serif_family': u'None',
'tags': None,
'text_size_multiplier_for_rendered_tables': 1.0,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2,
'wide': False,
'wordspace': 2.5}
InputFormatPlugin: Comic Input running
on C:\Calibre Library\Unknown\004 Fantastic Four 536 (196)\004 Fantastic Four 536 - Unknown.cbr
Archive: C:\Calibre Library\Unknown\004 Fantastic Four 536 (196)\004 Fantastic Four 536 - Unknown.cbr
Found comic pages...
Fantastic_Four_00_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_01_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_02_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_03_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_04_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_05_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_06_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_07_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_08_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_09_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_10_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_11_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_12_13_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_14_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_15_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_16_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_17_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_18_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_19_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_20_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_21_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_22_#536.jpg
Fantastic_Four_23_#536.jpg
Python function terminated unexpectedly
'NoneType' object is not iterable (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 99, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 785, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\comic\input.py", line 409, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\comic\input.py", line 373, in get_pages
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\comic\input.py", line 262, in process_pages
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

[kovidgoyal]

Open a ticket and attch the file causing it.

[Logseman]

Another user has posted a CBR-CBZ to ePub tool, it works wonderfully and perhaps it would help this part as well.