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06-19-2009, 03:54 AM
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Ayman
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Kindle doesnt show little dots that represent chapters tho I have a TOC
hi everyone. sorry if this has been said over and over again but i just cant seem to find what i need from searching. i have a K2 and i have a book that is in PDF. i went on adobe pro 9 and created bookmarks for every chapter. i used calibre to try and convert. while it did the job, the kindle still doesnt show the little dots at the bottom of the screen. these tell you how much longer you have till the next chapter. if ur reading a long book, its nice to visually see progress not just percentage. any way of accomplishing this?
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06-19-2009, 10:52 AM
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Holy S**T!!!
 
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Unfortunately, the only way I can think to make a PDF really Kindle compatible (with bookmarks and other goodies), would be to OCR the thing, and then copy the text into HTML and then convert from there. It would suck, but I know of no shortcuts. And, if anyone does know of one, I'd love to hear about it. |
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06-19-2009, 11:12 AM
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06-19-2009, 01:53 PM
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Ayman
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I appreciate the responses. Yes I am using the latest and greatest calibre. Where would I find this "waypoint" builder and how exactly does it work? I need to correct myself, I don't have a TOC but the book is indexed so you can jump from chapter to chapter on my mac but there is no TOC persay. Is This okay? I don't have my mac in front of me so I can't check it out know but if someone has a set of instructions I would appreciate it. Thanks again!
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06-19-2009, 02:09 PM
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I think it is automatic if you have a TOC (and probably unavailable without a TOC). From New features in calibre 0.6:
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06-19-2009, 02:51 PM
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Ok so here is the game plan then. After I indexed the PDF it didn't give me a TOC until I exported it to HTML. So after I exported it to HTML I saw the TOC. So my next movie is to convert that HTML to PDF (very easy on mac). After that I open my PDF back in adobe and link each line of the TOC (meaning the chapters ONE, TWO,etc) to it's corresponding page/chapter. Then once that's all set I save the modified PDF and use it in calibre. This should automatically detect the TOC in the front page and make waypoints for each chapter. Right? That's the only way I know to make a functioning TOC in adobe. I'll try it. Hope it works!! I'll keep this thread posted.
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06-19-2009, 03:19 PM
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You wont get a TOC with or waypoints with PDF files. Convert the PDF to html and then convert the HTML to MOBI with calibre 0.6 to get a TOC and waypoints. You will have to use calibre's TOC detection options to generate the TOC from the HTML
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06-19-2009, 08:02 PM
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@kovidgoyal
I did exactly what you said. I exported my PDF in Adobe Pro 9 to HTML. I then loaded the book into Calibre. Here are the settings I chose:   and i exported it to .MOBI directly to my kindle and now i have a full functioning TOC on my kindle but still no waypoints  what did i do wrong? |
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06-20-2009, 12:30 PM
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What version of calibre are you using?
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06-20-2009, 01:42 PM
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Ayman
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guys I am SO SORRY! I made a mistake. I was on 0.5.14, I thought I was on the latest 0.6 but I didnt know it was a beta. I downloaded it directly from the site. I apologize.
I went ahead and installed version .06b8 and when I try to convert this specific book I get this error: Convert book 1 of 1 (u'The Kite Runner') Processing archive... InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running on /var/folders/OF/OFrE7AQHHKeE59umq6hvLU+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.0b8_UNHxfn_plumber/content.opf Parsing all content... Language not specified Manifest item 'toc.ncx' not found Parsing The%20Kite%20Runner.html ... Generating default TOC from spine... Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Auto generated TOC with 0 entries. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages.zip/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 90, in main File "calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.pyo", line 17, in gui_convert File "calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.pyo", line 640, in run File "calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.pyo", line 95, in __call__ File "calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/jacket.pyo", line 46, in remove_first_image File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 1325, in lxml.etree._Element.xpath (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:14585) File "xpath.pxi", line 278, in lxml.etree.XPathElementEvaluator.__call__ (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:90212) File "xpath.pxi", line 82, in lxml.etree._XPathContext.registerVariables (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:88426) File "extensions.pxi", line 484, in lxml.etree._wrapXPathObject (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:86093) lxml.etree.XPathResultError: Unknown return type: dict If I can get past this part, Ill be able to see if the waypoints work. Thanks for all your help! |
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06-20-2009, 02:06 PM
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that's an interesting error message you can probably temporarily work around it by deselecting the remove first image option, but I would appreciate it if you could open a ticket and attach the html file causing this error.
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06-20-2009, 05:44 PM
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Ayman
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i created a new ticket and attached the file as you said. I was able to bypass the error by removing the "remove first page" option. I synced the book and still no waypoints. TOC works perfectly, but thats not really what I want the most, i gotta have my waypoints
 what can i do now?
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06-20-2009, 10:41 PM
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By clicking on the hourglass you can get the conversion log, post it here.
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06-20-2009, 11:02 PM
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here is the log:
Convert book 1 of 1 (u'The Kite Runner') InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running on /Users/Ayman/Documents/eBooks/Khaled Hosseini/The Kite Runner (14)/The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini.html Language not specified Creator not specified Title not specified Building file list... Found files... HTMLFile:0:a:/Users/Ayman/Documents/eBooks/Khaled Hosseini/The Kite Runner (14)/The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini.html HTMLFile:1:a:/Users/Ayman/Desktop/The Kite Runner.html Parsing The%20Kite%20Runner%20-%20Khaled%20Hosseini.html ... Parsing file u'The%20Kite%20Runner%20-%20Khaled%20Hosseini.html' as HTML Parsing The%20Kite%20Runner.html ... Parsing file u'The%20Kite%20Runner.html' as HTML Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Auto generated TOC with 0 entries. Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Property: Invalid value for "CSS Level 2.1" property: 13px Courier New [4:44: font] Property: Invalid value for "CSS Level 2.1" property: 13px Courier New [4:44: font] Source base font size is 5.55651pt Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Parsing stylesheet.css ... Creating MOBI Output... Applying case-transforming CSS... Parsing manglecase.css ... Rasterizing SVG images... Converting XHTML to Mobipocket markup... Serializing markup content... Compressing markup content... Generating CTOC ... Serializing images... MOBI output written to /var/folders/OF/OFrE7AQHHKeE59umq6hvLU+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.0b8_DJEYKl.mobi The settings I chose are these: -remove spacing between paragraphs -(grayed with a check mark) no text justification -page setup for kindle -force use of auto-generated TOC thats it. everything else is default. Last edited by ayman07; 06-20-2009 at 11:05 PM. |
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06-20-2009, 11:24 PM
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Auto generated TOC with 0 entries. is the clue. You need to adjust the TOC detection options to make sure a proper auto generated TOC is created |
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