LRFTools. Convert LRF to EPUB, HTML, PDF and RTF

[yargoflick]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

Ahhh. Of course, Windows.

I'm using Linux. Anything I can patch to make it work properly for me?

m a r

If copying the command line generated and pasting into a terminal works, then you could make an executable bash script called 'cmd' that would open an xterm and run the passed command line.
eg:

edit, as root, a new file /usr/local/bin/cmd
make it read as so:

#!/bin/bash
xterm -hold -e "$@"

Then you want to make the script executable:

sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/cmd

Now you should have a 'cmd' program that lrftools can pass a command line to and have an xterm open and run that line, pausing when finished.

You can test it by trying out:

cmd ls -l /etc

or some such thing.

If you're feeling industrious, you could try to find out where lrftools is calling cmd, and change it call bash instead.

[lionfish]

Originally Posted by rogue_ronin

Ahhh. Of course, Windows.

I'm using Linux. Anything I can patch to make it work properly for me?

m a r

Sorry for not able to make it Linux compatible. First, I don't use Linux and thus can't test. Second, I have tried calling "jave.exe -jar" directly by either Runtime.getRuntime().exec() or ProcessBuilder(), the gui just keep looping.

[Gudy]

Originally Posted by lionfish

Sorry for not able to make it Linux compatible. First, I don't use Linux and thus can't test. Second, I have tried calling "jave.exe -jar" directly by either Runtime.getRuntime().exec() or ProcessBuilder(), the gui just keep looping.

WaitAMinute. Wait. Just. A. Minute.

Did I understand that right? You're using a GUI written in Java to call another program, also written in Java, and you're calling "jave.exe -jar" directly by either Runtime.getRuntime().exec() or ProcessBuilder()?! That strikes me as, sorry for the language, bass ackwards.

Why not just directly call the main() method of the main class from the LRFTools jar with the arguments as a string array instead? It's nice, clean, simple, and most of all, platform independent. If you don't want to wait for the program to return, use a separate thread to run the LRFTools from the GUI...

[elinares]

Originally Posted by Gudy

WaitAMinute. Wait. Just. A. Minute.

Did I understand that right? You're using a GUI written in Java to call another program, also written in Java, and you're calling "jave.exe -jar" directly by either Runtime.getRuntime().exec() or ProcessBuilder()?! That strikes me as, sorry for the language, bass ackwards.

Why not just directly call the main() method of the main class from the LRFTools jar with the arguments as a string array instead? It's nice, clean, simple, and most of all, platform independent. If you don't want to wait for the program to return, use a separate thread to run the LRFTools from the GUI...

Yep, this is better than spawnning a new process. You can call lrf.RecurseDirs.main(String args[]), args holding the command-line parameters on a fresh thread to do the work.

Also, if you want to see progress, before calling to the above static method; you can assign to System.out and System.err two new PrintStreams, and then periodically show their contents to a frame on your GUI.

Thanks to all,
Eladio

[rogue_ronin]

Well, sounds like a proper solution might be in the offing. In the meantime, I will try yargoflick's workaround.

Thanks all,

m a r

[mwestmr]

Many thanks to Eladio for a great tool!

One of my .lrf files gives some problems with quotes and other characters. When I convert it with -XML I get correct text like:

<Tag Type="BeginP"/>
Vili glanced up, turned his head back toward the interior, and said, with no par
ticular inflection, &quot;Klava with honey for Lord Taltos.&quot; He then turned back to m
e and said, &quot;Your usual table is available, m&apos;lord.&quot;
<Tag Type="EndP"/>

while using -EPUB gives the same paragraph as:

<div class="st012"><span class="st013">Vili glanced up, turned his
head back toward the interior, and said, with no particular
inflection, &ntilde;Klava with honey for Lord Taltos.&icirc; He
then turned back to me and said, &ntilde;Your usual table is
available, m&Iacute;lord.&icirc;</span></div>

In the EPUB version the &ntilde; should be &quot;, &Iacute; should be &apos;, etc. The linebreaks in the XML output also look strange to me.

I'll sent the problematic .lrf file to Eladio by pm.

For what it's worth, this is under OS X 10.5.6 with java -version:
java version "1.6.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06-153)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_07-b06-57, mixed mode)

Matt.

[elinares]

Originally Posted by mwestmr

Many thanks to Eladio for a great tool!

One of my .lrf files gives some problems with quotes and other characters. When I convert it with -XML I get correct text like:

<Tag Type="BeginP"/>
Vili glanced up, turned his head back toward the interior, and said, with no par
ticular inflection, &quot;Klava with honey for Lord Taltos.&quot; He then turned back to m
e and said, &quot;Your usual table is available, m&apos;lord.&quot;
<Tag Type="EndP"/>

while using -EPUB gives the same paragraph as:

<div class="st012"><span class="st013">Vili glanced up, turned his
head back toward the interior, and said, with no particular
inflection, &ntilde;Klava with honey for Lord Taltos.&icirc; He
then turned back to me and said, &ntilde;Your usual table is
available, m&Iacute;lord.&icirc;</span></div>

In the EPUB version the &ntilde; should be &quot;, &Iacute; should be &apos;, etc. The linebreaks in the XML output also look strange to me.

I'll sent the problematic .lrf file to Eladio by pm.

For what it's worth, this is under OS X 10.5.6 with java -version:
java version "1.6.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06-153)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_07-b06-57, mixed mode)

Matt.

I've PMEd you. I can see correct codes, but i'm using a developing version. This weekend i'll publish new version on googlecode.

[elinares]

Uploaded to google code. Please look first post.

[hybernation]

Thank you for this tool! Was wondering if you could offer an option in the PDF conversion to retain the "smartquotes" ( &ldquo; and &rdquo; ) instead of converting them all to plain ones ( &quot; ) ?

thanks again
John

[rcuadro]

For some reason I cant get this to even work... Here is the messages that I get (I am using Java 1.5.0_15)

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

G:\LRFTOOLS>java -Xms200M -Xmx300M -jar LRFTools.jar view
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknow n Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

I tried it on my Mac and I get something similar... I am pulling my hair out!!!

[rcuadro]

Ooops... I dont know how to delete duplicate messages...

[elinares]

Originally Posted by rcuadro

For some reason I cant get this to even work... Here is the messages that I get (I am using Java 1.5.0_15)

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.

G:\LRFTOOLS>java -Xms200M -Xmx300M -jar LRFTools.jar view
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknow n Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

I tried it on my Mac and I get something similar... I am pulling my hair out!!!

Hi,
You must use Java 1.6...

[elinares]

Originally Posted by hybernation

Thank you for this tool! Was wondering if you could offer an option in the PDF conversion to retain the "smartquotes" ( &ldquo; and &rdquo; ) instead of converting them all to plain ones ( &quot; ) ?

thanks again
John

Class lrf.Utils holds toXMLText method as:

	public static String toXMLText(String app) {
		app=app.replace('\u000C', ' ');
		app=app.replace("’", "'");
		app=app.replace("'", "'");
		app=app.replace("‘", "'");
		app=app.replace("\"", """);
		app=app.replace("“", """);
		app=app.replace("”", """);
		app=app.replace(" & ", " & ");
		app=app.replace("<", "&lt;");
		app=app.replace(">", "&gt;");
		app=app.replace("’", "&apos;");
		app=app.replace("—", "-");
		app=app.replace("…", "...");
		app=app.replace("’", "&apos;");
		app=app.replace("Æ", "AE");
		app=app.replace("á", "&aacute;");
		app=app.replace("é", "&eacute;");
		app=app.replace("í", "&iacute;");
		app=app.replace("ó", "&oacute;");
		app=app.replace("ú", "&uacute;");
		app=app.replace("Á", "&Aacute;");
		app=app.replace("É", "&Eacute;");
		app=app.replace("Í", "&Iacute;");
		app=app.replace("Ó", "&Oacute;");
		app=app.replace("Ú", "&Uacute;");
		app=app.replace("ñ", "&ntilde;");
		app=app.replace("Ñ", "&Ntilde;");
		return app;
	}

How must be? app is a String holding raw UTF-8 text.

[hybernation]

I tried to post this on Google Code but for some reason after typing in the whole thing, the submit button wasn't enabled! :-)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. download this free ebook: http://www.pyrsf.com/crookedletterPDF.html
2. run the command
3. see stack trace below

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

C:\LRFTools>java -Xms200M -Xmx300M -jar LRFTools-v0.9.175.jar convertPDF CL
Loading 'CrookedLetterSmall.pdf' 519 pages -java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsExcep
tion: -1
at java.util.Vector.get(Vector.java:696)
at lrf.pdf.flow.Flower.managePieces(Flower.java:123)
at lrf.pdf.PDFSerializer.procPDF(PDFSerializer.java:9 6)
at lrf.pdf.PDFSerializer.recurse(PDFSerializer.java:3 3)
at lrf.RecurseDirs.convertPDFActionParams(RecurseDirs .java:239)
at lrf.RecurseDirs.<init>(RecurseDirs.java:89)
at lrf.RecurseDirs.main(RecurseDirs.java:39)


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

v0.9.175 on Windows Vista HP 32-bit JDK 1.6.0_13

Please provide any additional information below.

It does the same thing with SOME other PDF files I have tried. I had JDK 1.6.0_11 installed originally, so I updated to _12 (the latest)...does the same thing.

[rcuadro]

Originally Posted by elinares

Hi,
You must use Java 1.6...

It looks like I had to tell my Mac to use Java 1.6 lol...