DOCX conversion failure

[ljgrinnell]

Please bear with me. I'm a newbie with Calibre, and hope I can get an answer for this.

First the background: 27 inch iMac with 2.93 GHz Core i7 quad core processor, 20 GB RAM, MacOS 10.6.8, Calibre 1.48. The file is a docx format Word file, almost 6 MB, heavily formatted with index markers. On paper it comes out to over 3,000 pages (!). I'm not using Calibre 2.28 because I'm still using "Snow Leopard" (MacOSX 10.6.8).

I have been trying to convert to Kindle (later will also try Nook). I've done so in the past with smaller test files, and even get the index (index entries are the book title).

With this file, after about 24 hours of crunching away, it fails with error:

Python function terminated unexpectedly: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/var/folders/5X/5XNvN49TETSbIv61HMwzWk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_1.48.0_tmp_11ffR0/Tmo1PYdocx_container/word/settings.xml'
InputFormatPlugin: DOCX Input running on /var/folders/5X/5XNvN49TETSbIv61HMwzWk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_1.48.0_tmp_11ffR0/99zdil.docx
Encountered unknown field: tc, ignoring it.

I can post the entire error report if required.

Does anyone have an idea what's wrong and what I can do to fix it? Am I simply asking too much of Calibre?

I also have a PC with a 3.4 GHz quad-core Core i7 processor, Windows 7, with 8GB of RAM, Calibre 2.28, but it fails within 10-20 minutes with the same DOCX file. I have ordered more RAM to take it to 16 GB, hoping this might help with the conversion.

I'll be publishing the book in paper form (with multi-column layout, it'll be around 2,400 pages), but want to offer an ebook option in Nook and Kindle formats for a substantial price reduction over the print version.

I'd be grateful for any and all suggestions. Thanks to the community in advance.

[ljgrinnell]

Here's the full report from Calibre...

Spoiler:

calibre, version 1.48.0 (darwin, isfrozen: True)
Conversion Error: Failed: Convert book 1 of 1 (Descendants of Matthew and Rose Greenell)

Convert book 1 of 1 (Descendants of Matthew and Rose Greenell)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 1.48.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 12.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'/var/folders/5X/5XNvN49TETSbIv61HMwzWk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_1.48.0_tmp_11ffR0/A3V5Ze.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'docx_no_cover': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': True,
'embed_font_family': u'Times New Roman',
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': u'body { margin: 0; }\np {margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 15pt; text-align: justify;}\nh1 { text-align: center; }\nh2 {text-align: center; font-size: larger; padding-bottom: 20pt; page-break-before: always;}\nh3 { text-align: center; padding-bottom: 20pt; }\nh4 { text-align: center; }\nh5 { text-align: center; }\nh6 { text-align: center; }',
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u'',
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': u'7.5, 9, 10, 12, 15.5, 20, 22, 24',
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleInput object at 0x106dd98d0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': u'//h:h2',
'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,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'mobi_file_type': u'old',
'mobi_ignore_margins': False,
'mobi_keep_original_images': False,
'mobi_toc_at_start': True,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': True,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x106dd9dd0>,
'page_breaks_before': u'/',
'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'/var/folders/5X/5XNvN49TETSbIv61HMwzWk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_1.48.0_tmp_11ffR0/qolpJ0.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': True,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'share_not_sync': False,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
Python function terminated unexpectedly: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/var/folders/5X/5XNvN49TETSbIv61HMwzWk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_1.48.0_tmp_11ffR0/Tmo1PYdocx_container/word/settings.xml'
InputFormatPlugin: DOCX Input running
on /var/folders/5X/5XNvN49TETSbIv61HMwzWk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_1.48.0_tmp_11ffR0/99zdil.docx
Encountered unknown field: tc, ignoring it.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 208, in main
return run_entry_point()
File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 114, in run_entry_point
return getattr(pmod, func)()
File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 195, in main
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 31, in gui_convert_override
File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 25, in gui_convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1040, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 241, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/docx_input.py", line 29, in convert
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/docx/to_html.py", line 90, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/docx/to_html.py", line 274, in read_styles
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/docx/container.py", line 125, in read
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/var/folders/5X/5XNvN49TETSbIv61HMwzWk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_1.48.0_tmp_11ffR0/Tmo1PYdocx_container/word/settings.xml'

[kovidgoyal]

It looks like your docx file is missing the settings.xml file. It has nothing to do with file size. If you post your docx file as described here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=186697

I can take a look and see if ti is possible to workaround.

[ljgrinnell]

Thank you, sir! Bug 1457313 has been posted in the Calibre bug report system.

Regards...