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Forum: Conversion 02-25-2012, 10:06 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,948
Posted By nimblebooks
So it looks to me that the function doing all the...

So it looks to me that the function doing all the file rewriting is rewrite_links which is defined in base.py and removes all absolute links. Then it looks for a CSS file and cssutils parses that. ...
Forum: Conversion 02-24-2012, 09:18 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,948
Posted By nimblebooks
Understanding html input plugin

Can someone point me to the documentation or source for the html input plugin? I need to understand better what it is doing. Sorry for the stupid questions, but I am learning as I go. Deeply...
Forum: Conversion 02-22-2012, 06:01 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,052
Posted By nimblebooks
telling the input plugin to allow a rel=nofollow

i have determined that the html input plugin is stripping out a rel="no follow" tags and what follows. I do not want it to do that. Is there a way I can tell it to cease and desist?
Forum: Conversion 02-21-2012, 10:14 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,347
Posted By nimblebooks
warnjing: SVG rasterizer not available

I am getting this error message during MOBI conversion. Sounds as if Calibre is looking for an external SVG rasterizer--is this correct and is one recommended?
Forum: Conversion 02-21-2012, 04:24 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,461
Posted By nimblebooks
Actually, Calibre is doing remarkably well in...

Actually, Calibre is doing remarkably well in parsing the html from the Mediawiki API, with the sole exception of the HTML for this "Contents" infobox, so I don't really see any need for additional...
Forum: Conversion 02-21-2012, 08:59 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,461
Posted By nimblebooks
When you say "broken html", what do you...

When you say "broken html", what do you mean?
Forum: Conversion 02-20-2012, 02:59 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 3,461
Posted By nimblebooks
HTML input plugin stripping text within toc tags in child html file

Hi,

Same problem as a while ago but have done some more testing. Files attached.

ebook-convert tmp/temptoc.html $mediatargetpath$sku".epub" --max-levels=1 --toc-threshold=6...
Forum: Conversion 01-31-2012, 08:38 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,617
Posted By nimblebooks
bump!

bump!
Forum: Conversion 01-30-2012, 08:07 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,617
Posted By nimblebooks
Here are the requested htmls, and the...

Here are the requested htmls, and the ebook-convert used. there are some other problems, but the one that I'm trying to figure out right now is that the "Contents" in document 1.html are blanked...
Forum: Conversion 01-27-2012, 03:56 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,617
Posted By nimblebooks
Bump! Maybe I provided too much information. The...

Bump! Maybe I provided too much information. The basic problem is this: I am providing an HTML TOC (doc 0) for a collection of n HTML documents. Calibre is correctly crawling and building that TOC...
Forum: Conversion 01-25-2012, 03:23 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,617
Posted By nimblebooks
HTML to ePub stripping out Content text

Here is a puzzler. I am running ebook-convert on a HTML toc doc with the following settings:

sudo ebook-convert tmp/temptoc.html $mediatargetpath$sku".epub" --max-levels=1 --toc-threshold=100...
Forum: Sigil 01-25-2012, 02:03 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,225
Posted By nimblebooks
THanks!

THanks!
Forum: Sigil 01-25-2012, 01:55 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 1,225
Posted By nimblebooks
Unhappy can't install in Ubuntu 11.10

i686 Ubuntu Dell Latitude

Sigil-0.5.0-Linux-x86_64-Setup.bin
a+x

sudo ./home/user/Sigil ... yields

[sudo] password for fred:
fred@fred-Latitude-E6520:~$ sudo...
Forum: Conversion 11-28-2011, 01:11 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,541
Posted By nimblebooks
one chapter in eBook loads very slowly

In the attached ebook created using ebook-convert and some test data from Wikipedia, chapter 5, "Escape in February 2008", loads extremely slowly relative to all the other chapters, causing Calibre...
Forum: Conversion 11-25-2011, 08:51 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,164
Posted By nimblebooks
yes, you're right, it was running as Apache's...

yes, you're right, it was running as Apache's user. what you suggested would have worke.d Once I wrote the post above and realized that it had to be a permissions issue, I went back to the...
Forum: Conversion 11-24-2011, 08:46 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,164
Posted By nimblebooks
changing the permissions on the source file did...

changing the permissions on the source file did the job!
Forum: Conversion 11-24-2011, 07:59 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,164
Posted By nimblebooks
Here's a puzzler: --title req'd when run by root

Here's a puzzler. I have a bash script that creates ebooks by running ebook-convert from the command line, either by the user or by root as result of a web form submission. It was working fine until...
Forum: Conversion 11-23-2011, 12:00 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,841
Posted By nimblebooks
I never did solve the escaping problem, despite...

I never did solve the escaping problem, despite numerous painful experiments with sed and bash, but ultimately I realized I was making things way too hard on myself. I got rid of the --title flag and...
Forum: Conversion 11-22-2011, 04:26 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,841
Posted By nimblebooks
bump! still need help on this

bump! still need help on this
Forum: Conversion 11-18-2011, 02:15 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,841
Posted By nimblebooks
escaping spaces in command line --title

Hi,

I am having some trouble escaping the spaces in command line title when using a bash variable.

where I have

ebook-convert ... foo.epub ... --title$seed
or ebook-convert...
Forum: Conversion 11-04-2011, 01:01 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 5,127
Posted By nimblebooks
I substituted a new vanilla 1.html file for the 3...

I substituted a new vanilla 1.html file for the 3 existing files and the build worked fine, so that probably wasn't the problem. The previous files are about Japanese aircraft carriers so it may have...
Forum: Conversion 11-04-2011, 12:38 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 5,127
Posted By nimblebooks
This is the command that invokes: sudo...

This is the command that invokes:

sudo ebook-convert tmp/temptoc.html zz_delivery/zimzaztest.epub

(run without options to isolate errors)

this is the directory it is running against
...
Forum: Conversion 11-04-2011, 12:00 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 5,127
Posted By nimblebooks
ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL by

What does this mean? (error is at bottom) building an ePub from a collection of HTML documents.

Where does it think the NULL character is?
Forum: Amazon Kindle 08-26-2010, 10:58 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 28,288
Posted By nimblebooks
Now here's an interesting possibility: Google has...

Now here's an interesting possibility: Google has just added voice from Gmail. Could you use the Kindle 3's microphone to make phone calls from your Kindle?
Forum: Amazon Kindle 08-26-2010, 10:54 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 28,288
Posted By nimblebooks
This would be easy to do on a *nix system. set...

This would be easy to do on a *nix system. set up a filter on your mailbox and pipe chunks of messages (say 10 at a time) to an open source PDF converter, then mail the resulting file to your...
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