convert html to mobi with remote img

[Trigun]

if i have a html file with something like

<img src="http://www.somewhere.com/smiley.gif" alt="Smiley face" height="42" width="42">

can calibre do the conversion without lose the img? (hidden command? :-P )
or i'm forced to manual save the images and change the links?

[JSWolf]

You have to have the images in the Mobi file.

[theducks]

and what would happen if you had no network access?

Embedded is the only safe/robust way

[kovidgoyal]

Conversion explicitly does not download remote resources, since having the output of conversion depend on the state of the network is a bad design. Instead use one of the many, many tools that can download resources in html files automatically first. For instance, you can import the HTML intot he calibre ebook editor as a new ebook and then use the download remote resources tool in the editor.

[Trigun]

i was thinking calibre could have downloaded the img automatically with some sort of options :-D

i made a program that get the html to a page convert with calibre standalone and send it to kindlemail...
i need to handle the img with my code :-(

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Conversion explicitly does not download remote resources, since having the output of conversion depend on the state of the network is a bad design. Instead use one of the many, many tools that can download resources in html files automatically first. For instance, you can import the HTML intot he calibre ebook editor as a new ebook and then use the download remote resources tool in the editor.

Speaking of downloading remote resources, is there a way to replace an image with an image that's online and no downloaded to the local computer? If not, can such a feature be implemented?

[kovidgoyal]

Just use any of the many existing command line tools that do this, for instance, wget http://askubuntu.com/questions/37304...he-file-stored

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Just use any of the many existing command line tools that do this, for instance, wget http://askubuntu.com/questions/37304...he-file-stored

I don't have any problem saving the image to disk to them replace the existing image. What I would like is to be able to copy the image's URL and use that to replace the image in the editor. That would be a lot easier and save a few steps.

[kovidgoyal]

@JSWolf I was not replying to you. I ahve no idea how you expect the editor to replace an exiting local image with a remote URL, how is the editor supposed to know what the remote URL to use is?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@JSWolf I was not replying to you. I ahve no idea how you expect the editor to replace an exiting local image with a remote URL, how is the editor supposed to know what the remote URL to use is?

By pasting the URL into a dialog box of some kind. So I could look up the image, copy the URL, paste it into a dialog box and Calibre goes and gets the image to use as the replacement.

[kovidgoyal]

Instead paste the URL into the HTML directly and use the tool to download external resources, once you are done adding all the images you want

[Trigun]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Instead paste the URL into the HTML directly and use the tool to download external resources, once you are done adding all the images you want

what tool? wget?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Trigun

what tool? wget?

Perhaps this tool



BR

[Trigun]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Perhaps this tool

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BR

u could have included the title bar on the screen :-) i have no idea what tool is :-D

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Trigun

u could have included the title bar on the screen :-) i have no idea what tool is :-D

As per post #4 (where the tool was originally mentioned) - the screenshot is from the calibre Editor.