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Raimond · 09-17-2013, 07:54 AM

I've just installed calibre 1.3 on my raspberry pi (Debian wheezy), I'll only use ebook-convert in the future.

html2txt, html2epub and html2mobi works fine, but html2pdf requires the usage of xvfb

--> xvfb-run ebook-convert in.html out.pdf

I'd like to know why this is needed (Or to be more exact: why is it needed for pdf, but not for the other ones).

(There's a post in this board from Kovid that xvfb isn't required with versions later than 0.8.x)

Rai

09-17-2013, 07:54 AM	#1
Raimond Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Sony PRS-600, Kindle Paperwhite	Raspberry Pi: ebook-convert only with xvfb (html to pdf) I've just installed calibre 1.3 on my raspberry pi (Debian wheezy), I'll only use ebook-convert in the future. html2txt, html2epub and html2mobi works fine, but html2pdf requires the usage of xvfb --> xvfb-run ebook-convert in.html out.pdf I'd like to know why this is needed (Or to be more exact: why is it needed for pdf, but not for the other ones). (There's a post in this board from Kovid that xvfb isn't required with versions later than 0.8.x) Rai