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Old 02-14-2010, 06:42 AM   #1
Tobago
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Question Problems with converting Palm PDB-PDF files to other formats/show in calibre-viewer

First, thank you for calibre, it's great software, still supporting my old Palm m500!!

I have a problem with some PDB-files, which are 'Tagged PDFs', created with Adobe Reader for Palm OS. Those I cannot convert to any other format.

I get the below error for each 'PDF-PDB':

Code:
ERROR: Konvertierungsfehler [Conversion failure]: <b>Misslungen[Failed]</b>: Konvertiere Buch 11 von 41 [Converting book x of y] (PR SB 42 - Das Zeitko_1_pdf_0l)

Konvertiere Buch 11 von 41 (PR SB 42 - Das Zeitko_1_pdf_0l)
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': True,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 0.0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'disable_font_rescaling': False,
 'dont_justify': False,
 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
 'extra_css': None,
 'extract_to': None,
 'flow_size': 260,
 'font_size_mapping': None,
 'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
 'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)',
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x02BF1D50>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': None,
 'level2_toc': None,
 'level3_toc': None,
 'line_height': 0.0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'margin_bottom': 5.0,
 'margin_left': 5.0,
 'margin_right': 5.0,
 'margin_top': 5.0,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_default_epub_cover': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': False,
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x02BF1F10>,
 'page_breaks_before': u'/',
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'preprocess_html': False,
 'pretty_print': True,
 'print_formatted_paras': False,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\dokume~1\\tristar\\lokale~1\\temp\\calibre_0.6.39_jbyt9o.opf',
 'remove_first_image': False,
 'remove_footer': False,
 'remove_header': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
 'series': None,
 'series_index': None,
 'single_line_paras': False,
 'tags': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: PDB Input running
on D:\temp\CO\eBooks\Das Zeitko~1 pdf\PR SB 42 - Das Zeitko_1_pdf_0l (62)\PR SB 42 - Das Zeitko_1_pdf_0l - Das Zeitko~1 pdf.pdb
Python function terminated unexpectedly
  No reader available for format within container.
 Identity is .pdfADBE. Book type is Adobe Reader (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site.py", line 103, in main
  File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 745, in run
  File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\pdb\input.py", line 39, in convert

calibre.ebooks.pdb.PDBError: No reader available for format within container.
 Identity is .pdfADBE. Book type is Adobe Reader
On my Desktop-PC I do not have Adobe Reader installed, because of frequent security issues, but instead I have FoxIt PDF-Reader, but the system standard PDF-Reader should be used nevertheless, so the internal PDF-file should display correctly, at least in the Calibre-internal eBook-Viewer.

Having a rather large library of those 'PDF-PDBs', so being unable to import/convert them is quite problematic.

I want to get away from the PDF-format to a common, open ebook-format and reader, but this currently stops for me the proceding.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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