[KevinH]

That specific DeDRM tool you are talking about has that patch 0.12 in place (and has had it for a long time). So the problem must be something else.

Simply unzip the .pmlz file (it is a zip archive - if it won't unzip rename it to .zip and then unzip it). Once inside open the single *.pml code in any text editor and look for the code that indicates an image:

\m=

So for example look for something along the lines of

\m="gBTFQJrzYnhWblUAhfk5dhnpaou.png"

Then look in the *_img directory and make sure the matching file name exists.
If it does not exist or has a slightly different name, that is the cause of the problem.
If the names are made up from the following list of characters, then all should be well:

"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw xyz0123456789_.-"

if the names in the pml file use characters not in this set, please tell me which ones.

My guess is this pml file uses special or strange characters and that is why DropBook barfed on it when it tried to convert the .pml file back to a .pdb (which is why you are stuck playing with a .pmlz instead of a .pdb file).

If you can point out the offending chars, I am sure something can be done to get things fixed.

KevinH