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wooverine · 05-02-2016, 08:20 PM

I'm trying to get headless ebook-convert running on Ubuntu for Windows 10 (bash shell within Windows 10 Preview). I've been running

Code:

xvfb-run -a ebook-convert test.md out.pdf -vvv

and everything proceeds correctly until it reaches

Code:

Trimming unused files from manifest...
Processed HTML written to: /home/fred/pagekicker-community/here/processed
Creating PDF Output...
67% Running PDF Output plugin

where it hangs. I assume this is because it is missing some library needed for PDF creation. I installed qt5-default and qt5-dev via apt-get but did not fix. It would be good to be able to turn on verbose logging for the PDF output tools as Ubuntu for Windows is a stripped down version that does not support all syscalls and does not have all normal ubuntu libraries.

05-02-2016, 08:20 PM	#1
wooverine Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2015 Device: Kindle PaperWhite	headless ebook-convert running on Ubuntu for Windows I'm trying to get headless ebook-convert running on Ubuntu for Windows 10 (bash shell within Windows 10 Preview). I've been running Code: xvfb-run -a ebook-convert test.md out.pdf -vvv and everything proceeds correctly until it reaches Code: Trimming unused files from manifest... Processed HTML written to: /home/fred/pagekicker-community/here/processed Creating PDF Output... 67% Running PDF Output plugin where it hangs. I assume this is because it is missing some library needed for PDF creation. I installed qt5-default and qt5-dev via apt-get but did not fix. It would be good to be able to turn on verbose logging for the PDF output tools as Ubuntu for Windows is a stripped down version that does not support all syscalls and does not have all normal ubuntu libraries.