LRF output

[JSWolf]

Kewl! So it'll process uncompressed Book Designer files. Nice one! Just have to wait for the Windows version to be released.

[danx]

Kovid,

You're superman--what you did is amazing.

I had problems upgrading Python to 2.5. I have 2.4 and I don't want to upgrade the Linux distribution now. It was a pain to upgrade and I posted a comment here on the other software besides Python that is needed by html2lrf. See libprs500 bug #117 for details.

One question--I believe Sony LRF supports images, but unless I'm doing something wrong, html2lrf doesn't seem to include images. If my assumptions are true, are there any plans to include images in the generated LRF format? I viewed my generated LRF file and it had no images. I tried both relative and full paths for the image file. For example:
Relative: <img src="images/foo.jpg" />
Full path: <img src="http://www.foobar.com/images/foo.jpg" />

I donated to the Kovid PRS 505 fund--great work!

[maggotb0y]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Added initial support for pre-processing via the --book-designer option in svn.

Okay, you've got me downloading your VMWare image now so I can try to play around with this- I'm sure I'm jumping in over my head, but I can't help it.

Thanks!

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by danx

Kovid,

You're superman--what you did is amazing.

I had problems upgrading Python to 2.5. I have 2.4 and I don't want to upgrade the Linux distribution now. It was a pain to upgrade and I posted a comment here on the other software besides Python that is needed by html2lrf. See libprs500 bug #117 for details.

One question--I believe Sony LRF supports images, but unless I'm doing something wrong, html2lrf doesn't seem to include images. If my assumptions are true, are there any plans to include images in the generated LRF format? I viewed my generated LRF file and it had no images. I tried both relative and full paths for the image file. For example:
Relative: <img src="images/foo.jpg" />
Full path: <img src="http://www.foobar.com/images/foo.jpg" />

I donated to the Kovid PRS 505 fund--great work!

html2lrf does support images. See for example the demo lrf file attached in the first post of this thread. Probably there is something missing in your installation of the python imaging library. Try running html2lrf with the --verbose flag.

Thanks for the donation, its much appreciated.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by maggotb0y

Okay, you've got me downloading your VMWare image now so I can try to play around with this- I'm sure I'm jumping in over my head, but I can't help it.

Thanks!

Not a problem. If you have trouble using the vmware image let me know.

[danx]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

html2lrf does support images. See for example the demo lrf file attached in the first post of this thread. Probably there is something missing in your installation of the python imaging library. Try running html2lrf with the --verbose flag.

I think I know the problem--the images are inside tables (for positioning and captions) and it appears the table contents are ignored because it's "too large" (an image):

html2lrf --verbose -o matthes.lrf -t "Francois Matthes and the Marks of Time" -a "Francois E. Matthes" matthes.html

Processing matthes.html
Parsing HTML...
Converting to BBeB...
An error occurred while processing a table: Table has cell that is too large. Ignoring table markup.
Output written to /local/apache/htdocs/yosemite/library/matthes/matthes.lrf

html2lrf --version
libprs500 0.4.7

Here's a typical table with an image:

<table border="0" align="right"><tr>
<td align="center">
<a href="images/dust_jacket.jpg">
<img src="images/thumbnail/dust_jacket.jpg"
alt="François Matthes and the Marks of Time, dust jacket"
width="576" height="411" border="0" /></a>
<br />
<a href="images/dust_jacket.jpg">
<span class="small"><i>Dust jacket</i></span></a>
</td>
</tr></table>

[kovidgoyal]

Just delete the <a href="dust_jacket.jpeg"> line. There's no way for html2lrf to know what size the image referenced in an <a> element should be.

[chatlumo]

About images (not included), this doesn't work with the GUI under Mac OS X but it's working if i use the command line. Do you know why ?

Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

You have to zip up the HTML file and all its images and then add it to the database. Only then will conversion from the GUI include the images.

[glenn69]

It's a version problem. You should either install SPI and PyQt by hand or wait for gutsy.

OK, I now have Python 2.5 and the html referenced by web2lrf --url "http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?style=printable&full=1#book_part1" -r 0
seems to create an lrf without the errors I used to get. I have copied it to the reader, but when I choose the book to read the reader stays on "Formatting..." screen for about 5 minutes then when I read the book page changes take about 12 second each. Are these simply side effects of the translation from HTML or should I be looking into html2lrf options?

Thanks again

P.S. I did donate for your prs505, but didn't get the cool announcement line in my post. I hope you got it. Let me know if it didn't go through.

[kovidgoyal]

You should probably try some of the chapter options, to force more frequent page breaks.

[tidixon]

Hey,
I am new to this forum and to all these tools. I installed libprs500 and tried to use web2lrf to get the economist. It took about 30 minutes and produced a 23MB lrf that could not be read on the reader. This was on linux. I tried it again on Windows with the same result. I can post error logs and stuff, but I think maybe they just haven't finished writing the profile? It is not listed in the graphical interface but is in the command line.
Thanks,
TIm.

[kovidgoyal]

yeah economist isn't done.

[maggotb0y]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Not a problem. If you have trouble using the vmware image let me know.

Okay, I have trouble <g>.

I got the VM image up and running and networked, which took a little bit of fooling around as I am not terribly familiar with gentoo.

Now I try to update from SVN and when running python setup.py develop as root I get this error:

Trying to setup udev rules...
Setting up bash completion... failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/kovid/work/libprs500/src/libprs500/linux.py", line 79 in setup_completion
  from libprs500.gui2.lrf_renderer.main import option_parser as lrfviewerop
  File "/home/kovid/work/libprs500/src/libprs500/gui2/lrf_renderer/main.py", line 27 in <module>
  from libprs500.gui.lrf_renderer.main_us import Ui_mainWindow
ImportError: No module named main_ui
Setting up desktop integration
QPixmap::scaled: Pixmap is a null pixmap
/bin/sh: xdg-icon-resource: command not found
You do not have the Portland Desktop Utilities installed, skipping installation of desktop integration

Is this something I can safely ignore? Is the VMware image out of alignment with the current requirements?

Thanks for your help,
Christopher

[kovidgoyal]

You need to run make

make -C src/libprs500/gui2/