Calibre ate my images?

[Portnull]

Hi all,

Seems my images get lost in translation when converting HTML to ePub. In HTML it looks like this:

<p class="p">
<a name="bju11304.19022009134000_0001"/>
<div class="imageholder">
<div class="head">Inhoud burgerlijk recht</div>
<div class="image">
<img src="images/bju11304.19022009134000_0001.jpg"/>
</div>
</div>
</p>

Calibre translates it to:

<p class="p">
<a name="bju11304.19022009134000_0001" id="bju11304.19022009134000_0001"/>
</p>
<div class="imageholder">
<div class="head">Inhoud burgerlijk recht</div>
<div class="image">
<img/>
</div>
</div>

Any ideas what's the cause of this?

[gwynevans]

At a guess, it can't find the image? Any chance that there's a problem with permissions or filename case-sensitivity? Try copying one to the same folder as the HTML, renaming it to something like 'image1.jpg' then seeing if that works?

Any chance the image formats are non-standard? Run the conversion from a command-line ('html2epub', maybe?) & see if any warning messages?

[Portnull]

Looks like your first guess is the right one: Calibre automatically checks of the referenced images are present. When I use a bogus URL, it translates to this:

<p class="p">
<a name="bju11304.19022009134000_0004" id="bju11304.19022009134000_0004"/>
</p>
<div class="imageholder">
<div class="head">Gevolgen handelen zonder volmacht</div>
<div class="image">
<img src="http://images/bju11304.19022009134000_0004.jpg"/>
</div>
</div>

My idea was to first convert an HTML-file to an ePub, then manually sticking the images in the right folder and re-compressing the ePub. I'm just testing with ePub anyway, so lots of would-be-eBooks aren't complete yet. Is there a way to have Calibre *not* check if the images are present, so the IMG SRC gets translated even if there's no image yet to be referenced?

[WayneD]

What I'd suggest is using place-holder images. Maybe create something simple in a paint program. For every image you want to be included, copy the place-holder image to the right name. You can then update the images later.