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Hi

I am used to export with PrincePDF and, up to now, this has worked very reliably with both the Calibre and Sigil related plugins. Lately I tried to export with two different display sizes. It worked once but later failed with this consistent error message that I am getting now everytime I try to export.

This is what I checked up to now:

- I tried this export using two different versions of Sigil, one from Arch Linux, the other from sigil-git - Arch too - (so Sigil does not seem to be the culprit).
- Python3.5 is installed on my machine with all needed dependencies. I checked with the testplugin which finds no problem.
-I uninstalled totally the PrincePDF plugin (including prefs) and reinstalled it with the default settings (with only one display size)
-I used EPUB2 and EPUB3 ebooks.

After all these tries, everything failed with the same warning (see above):

B]About dependencies[/B]

I'm not able to reproduce this error on my Windows and Linux machines, unless I change the interpreter to Python 2.7. Can you please post a sample epub that reliably causes this error.

@roger64:

The error message is missing the last part (marked in Magenta). It should look like this:


Please post the complete error message, including all lines after:

For others that are curious about this, the plugin uses the book title as the file name and chokes if Python 2.7 is selected and book title contains accented characters or umlauts.

If you have the plugin installed please test this issue:

1. Create a blank epub.
2. Change the book title to öäöüöasf (or any other title that contains at least one accented character/umlaut)
3. Run the plugin.

Hi Doitsu

Here is the full error message. It just ends after "markup_type=markup_type))" I did not suppress any bit. I also join the EPUB2. It failed the same after renaming the EPUB with öäöüöasf with exactly the same error message.

@roger64: The plugin assumes that a Desktop folder exists. If you've installed a French Arch Linux version the Desktop folder is most likely called Bureau, which most likely caused your problem.

If that's the case, please change the following line from:

to

or whatever the Desktop folder is called in the French Linux version.

Alternatively, you could also change the output folder in PrincePDF.json:

(The first two lines are optional. If you use them make sure to terminate them with a comma.)

@Doitsu

I took your second solution and that was it. Thank you for finding this out! I am sorry for giving you trouble. I just hope some other people may learn about this mistake and its consequences.

Thank you very much! :thanks: