How to automatically fetch news with two output formats

brease · 11-27-2012, 01:23 AM

I found that calibre generates different tables of contents when fetching news with different behavior settings of "preferred output format". Basically, the epub format adds navigation links and the date to the file, and the mobi format does not. I really like this meticulous consideration since this makes the mobi file clean and the epub file easier to navigate.

But if I convert a mobi file to an epub file, they have some tables of contents.

How can I fetch two formats automatically without changing behavior preference every time?

kovidgoyal · 11-27-2012, 02:25 AM

You cant, the output profile can influence the behavior of the code that downloads the news, therefore the entire process has to be run separately for every output profile/output format you want to use.

Purple Lady · 11-28-2012, 10:59 PM

I had the same problem - I wanted to create my comics with a different output profile so the comics were not resized. I found that pocketbook_900 profile did not resize so I wrote a batch job and scheduled it to run every morning on my PC.

Code:

ebook-convert Arcamax.recipe .epub  --output-profile pocketbook_900

set filename="Arcamax [%date% %time%]"

ebook-meta Arcamax.epub -t %filename%

calibredb add -d  Arcamax.epub

pause

exit

This creates an ebook with the date in the name - Arcamax [Wed 11/28/2012 6:30:39.21]

11-27-2012, 01:23 AM	#1
brease Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: kindle 4	How to automatically fetch news with two output formats I found that calibre generates different tables of contents when fetching news with different behavior settings of "preferred output format". Basically, the epub format adds navigation links and the date to the file, and the mobi format does not. I really like this meticulous consideration since this makes the mobi file clean and the epub file easier to navigate. But if I convert a mobi file to an epub file, they have some tables of contents. How can I fetch two formats automatically without changing behavior preference every time?

11-28-2012, 10:59 PM	#3
Purple Lady Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,698 Karma: 16542228 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Pennsylvania Device: Huawei MediaPad M5, LG V30, Boyue T80S, Nexus 7 LTE, K3 3G, Fire HD8	I had the same problem - I wanted to create my comics with a different output profile so the comics were not resized. I found that pocketbook_900 profile did not resize so I wrote a batch job and scheduled it to run every morning on my PC. Code: ebook-convert Arcamax.recipe .epub --output-profile pocketbook_900 set filename="Arcamax [%date% %time%]" ebook-meta Arcamax.epub -t %filename% calibredb add -d Arcamax.epub pause exit This creates an ebook with the date in the name - Arcamax [Wed 11/28/2012 6:30:39.21]

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11-27-2012, 02:25 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,858 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You cant, the output profile can influence the behavior of the code that downloads the news, therefore the entire process has to be run separately for every output profile/output format you want to use.

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