Thread: Rename template for "number of pages"
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Old 03-07-2019, 09:07 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by r728626 View Post
This plugin is horrible for .pdfs
If it's a large file then, forget it. It's going to run the process for hours consuming CPU, and still hasn't been finished.
Whoops, forgot about something with this. It's incomplete. See the posts below for more in the story.

The Count Pages plugin does not calculate a page count for PDFs. If that is the only format you have in the library for a book, the plugin will display a message to tell you it cannot do the page count. It can do a word count, but it will need to extract the words from the PDF which does take time.
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Windows took exactly 5 minutes. But it can't rename files, which is the whole reason behind the template feature.
See above if you are talking about PDFs. If you are talking about other formats, please state what they are.
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I can't understand why this community is so unable to accept negative points in calibre, specially when it's about .pdf format.
The community is happy to discuss the negative points of calibre. But, so many of the points people put up turn out to be a misunderstanding. And the community completely understands that PDFs have good points. But, they also have bad points. These tend to get discussed more as people try to work around them.
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Many .epubs are just trash .txt files.
Not in my experience. I have many high quality, well formatted epubs. If you are only looking at epubs from places like Project Gutenberg, then I can under that viewpoint. But, there are also a lot of PDFs that are "just trash .txt files.".
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This function must be worked better, because even windows can perform better than calibre. Perhaps some open-source renaming tags could do this using the windows engine, which I'm not aware.
But calibre, and even manually installing the plugin, hasn't been a solution for me.
In that case, it doesn't sound like calibre is for you. And there are a lot of people that don't like it for one reason or another. But, a really important thing is to make sure you are comparing the same thing. At the moment, you sound like you are comparing a plugin that counts pages in epubs to something that counts pages in a PDF. The requirements are vastly different.
Last edited by davidfor; 03-07-2019 at 11:02 PM. Reason: Added a correction.
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