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EmilThelonius · 12-11-2018, 04:40 PM

Hi Calibre-Community,

I have a question about using the ebook-convert program from calibre in a shell script – as I am a total noob to shell scrips, maybe someone here can help me?

I am eager to learn and would be very thankful!

So I am using hazel on a mac to automate certain folders. Within one of the folders I want to have an automatic conversion from ePub to pdf. I stumbled over a very useful shell script in the internet, which can be used directly in hazel:
https://jake.ch/2013/03/03/hazelbooks/

Code:

FULL_PATH="$1"
ORIG_FILE=$(basename "$FULL_PATH")
/Applications/Calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert "$ORIG_FILE" "converted/$(basename "$FULL_PATH" .epub).pdf"

This works pretty well: it makes a pdf and puts it in a "convert" folder. But now I want to tweak the PDF to a certain size, add page numbers, set margins etc...

So I found the commands for the ebook-convert app from calibre:
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gen...output-options

But how can I include for example

Code:

--custom-size

to the shell script above? And how do I set the hight and the width?

12-11-2018, 04:40 PM	#1
EmilThelonius Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 71294 Join Date: May 2016 Device: Sony DPT-RP1 and Pocketbook Touch Lux 2 and Basic	[MacOS] Help, using shell script and ebook-convert, hazel Hi Calibre-Community, I have a question about using the ebook-convert program from calibre in a shell script – as I am a total noob to shell scrips, maybe someone here can help me? I am eager to learn and would be very thankful! So I am using hazel on a mac to automate certain folders. Within one of the folders I want to have an automatic conversion from ePub to pdf. I stumbled over a very useful shell script in the internet, which can be used directly in hazel: https://jake.ch/2013/03/03/hazelbooks/ Code: FULL_PATH="$1" ORIG_FILE=$(basename "$FULL_PATH") /Applications/Calibre.app/Contents/MacOS/ebook-convert "$ORIG_FILE" "converted/$(basename "$FULL_PATH" .epub).pdf" This works pretty well: it makes a pdf and puts it in a "convert" folder. But now I want to tweak the PDF to a certain size, add page numbers, set margins etc... So I found the commands for the ebook-convert app from calibre: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gen...output-options But how can I include for example Code: --custom-size to the shell script above? And how do I set the hight and the width?