LRF output - Page 52

DaleDe · 01-22-2009, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sauravishal

is there any the best possible way to convert pdf into mobipocket files (.prc)...exact as same as the pdf...

sure, make a picture of each page and include it in a prc file. Otherwise there is no way to make any other ebook reading format exactly like PDF. I am not sure why you would want to make a 6" display look exactly like a 14" (A4) size display, but to each his own.

Dale

ProDigit · 01-22-2009, 02:13 PM

Well,I don't know about Mobi,
But on the Sony reader LRF, one could copy the text,and save the pictures inside a PDF, and then in book designer re-create your version of the book.
Like mentioned above, identical copying is impossible,especially when you're dealing with a large papersize. the 6" screen of the reader is too small to comfortably read a4 or larger pages.

I don't know if there's a program to create mobi, but I do know,that one is able to create a HTML file of the book, and convert that to mobi.

Again,to have it identically looking the same I don't think will be possible (when you use text based methode). But looking like,yes...

Or like above mentioned, take a snapshot of every page, and view the book as pictures.

nelliesorvig · 01-22-2009, 02:38 PM

why do you want it to be same as pdf?

douglasamcintosh · 02-10-2009, 01:18 PM

Open up Archive. Choose add book from menu and select file ns1.htm. Importer runs for a while. Run it through the converter to LRF. That runs for a while. As far as I can tell the files are encoded in 7bit ASCII which I am presuming is fairly standard for the older web page

Then try to display it with the built in viewer and get the following message.

Code:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf16' codec can't decode bytes in position 416-417: illegal UTF-16 surrogate
Failed to render document
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/gui2/lrf_renderer/main.py", line 33, in run
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/lrfparser.py", line 28, in parse
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/lrfparser.py", line 56, in _parse_objects
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/objects.py", line 840, in initialize
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/calibre/ebooks/lrf/objects.py", line 701, in add_text
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/encodings/utf_16_le.py", line 16, in decode
    return codecs.utf_16_le_decode(input, errors, True)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf16' codec can't decode bytes in position 416-417: illegal UTF-16 surrogate

Works fine with mobipocket creator but I am hoping the html2lrf will give me a better page layout. Everything seems squashed with mobipocket.

Am running Calibre on Ubuntu linux.

Thanks for any help.

karo02 · 02-10-2009, 01:42 PM

Hello,

I have some issues with html converted to lrf : even if I don't check the option box, I always have blank lines between paragraph, even if they are none in the original html file (generated with MS Word).
Only when I replaced the "paragraph mark" (^p) by the "end line" (^l) mark did the blank lines disappear, but then I don't have the indent for the following paragraph.

When converting the same html file to epub, no problem... but when I'm converting the epub to lrf, the blank line between paragraph reapper.

Is it a bug, or am I missing something ?

Thanks.

kovidgoyal · 02-10-2009, 01:47 PM

Post an extract from the HTML file showing a couple of paragraphs.

douglasamcintosh · 02-10-2009, 02:22 PM

Works fine from command line for some reason.

kovidgoyal · 02-10-2009, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by douglasamcintosh

Works fine from command line for some reason.

The conversion or the viewer?

karo02 · 02-10-2009, 02:57 PM

here's the extract, thanks !

douglasamcintosh · 02-10-2009, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The conversion or the viewer?

Um both. I convert from the command line:

html2ltf --link-levels=2 -t blah -a blahblah ns1.htm

It runs for a few seconds. Then using lrfviewer shows up fine. Not perfect but good enough for me

If I do not set the link level the conversion takes a long long time. It seems to endlessly loop round and round.

Not sure what the default settings are when I use the gui but plainly something is not working happily.

Thanks for the program it has inspired me to go out and actually buy a Sony Reader. Well not just now but when I have flogged a bunch of stuff on eBay

Amalthia · 02-10-2009, 03:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karo02

here's the extract, thanks !

I looked at the code and this is where I think your blank line is coming from.

<o

> </o

> It's between each of your paragraphs. For some reason MS Word like to add code to every space. I use Word 97 to convert my stories to html because it doesn't add that piece of code between my paragraphs.

kovidgoyal · 02-10-2009, 05:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karo02

here's the extract, thanks !

Works for me, see attached file

kovidgoyal · 02-10-2009, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by douglasamcintosh

Um both. I convert from the command line:

html2ltf --link-levels=2 -t blah -a blahblah ns1.htm

It runs for a few seconds. Then using lrfviewer shows up fine. Not perfect but good enough for me

If I do not set the link level the conversion takes a long long time. It seems to endlessly loop round and round.

Not sure what the default settings are when I use the gui but plainly something is not working happily.

Thanks for the program it has inspired me to go out and actually buy a Sony Reader. Well not just now but when I have flogged a bunch of stuff on eBay

Look at the encoding setting in the GUI for that book.

karo02 · 02-11-2009, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amalthia

I looked at the code and this is where I think your blank line is coming from.

<o

> </o

> It's between each of your paragraphs. For some reason MS Word like to add code to every space. I use Word 97 to convert my stories to html because it doesn't add that piece of code between my paragraphs.

Thanks, I tried to "save as filtered html" with Word (instead of save as html) :
it says that the "MS Office" tags will be removed, and now it's work. So I guess this is the way to prevent Word to add code everywhere...

I'm really glad it works this way, because if I understood correctly, generating html files with Word and then converting to lrf (or epub) is the easiest and best way for newbie to obtain a proper layout..

Don't know why Kovidgoyal didn't have any problem with my extract though.

ProDigit · 02-12-2009, 02:54 PM

it also shows of bad text conversion.
In word you should not let every sentence end with ^l or ^p.

In order to understand the exact structure of books you're better off learning html code.
^l = , and ^p=
it's not that hard.
If you want your text to look a certain way, creating it in HTML is probably the best thing you can do.

Book designer and the Sony reader, I think support html0.
That's very easy, there are only about 15 commands to learn to create a book!
The easiest thing you can do is create it in word, save it to html, and prune the text for html command strings that are not necessary.

02-10-2009, 01:42 PM	#770
karo02 Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 6698 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: none	html2lrf always add blank lines between paragraphs Hello, I have some issues with html converted to lrf : even if I don't check the option box, I always have blank lines between paragraph, even if they are none in the original html file (generated with MS Word). Only when I replaced the "paragraph mark" (^p) by the "end line" (^l) mark did the blank lines disappear, but then I don't have the indent for the following paragraph. When converting the same html file to epub, no problem... but when I'm converting the epub to lrf, the blank line between paragraph reapper. Is it a bug, or am I missing something ? Thanks.

02-12-2009, 02:54 PM	#780
ProDigit Karmaniac Posts: 2,553 Karma: 11499146 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Miami FL Device: PRS-505, Jetbook, + Mini, +Color, Astak Ez Reader Pro, PPW1, Aura H2O	it also shows of bad text conversion. In word you should not let every sentence end with ^l or ^p. In order to understand the exact structure of books you're better off learning html code. ^l = <br>, and ^p=<p> it's not that hard. If you want your text to look a certain way, creating it in HTML is probably the best thing you can do. Book designer and the Sony reader, I think support html0. That's very easy, there are only about 15 commands to learn to create a book! The easiest thing you can do is create it in word, save it to html, and prune the text for html command strings that are not necessary. Last edited by ProDigit; 02-12-2009 at 02:57 PM.

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ProDigit Karmaniac Posts: 2,553 Karma: 11499146 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Miami FL Device: PRS-505, Jetbook, + Mini, +Color, Astak Ez Reader Pro, PPW1, Aura H2O	Well,I don't know about Mobi, But on the Sony reader LRF, one could copy the text,and save the pictures inside a PDF, and then in book designer re-create your version of the book. Like mentioned above, identical copying is impossible,especially when you're dealing with a large papersize. the 6" screen of the reader is too small to comfortably read a4 or larger pages. I don't know if there's a program to create mobi, but I do know,that one is able to create a HTML file of the book, and convert that to mobi. Again,to have it identically looking the same I don't think will be possible (when you use text based methode). But looking like,yes... Or like above mentioned, take a snapshot of every page, and view the book as pictures.

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nelliesorvig Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Handheld	why do you want it to be same as pdf?

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,353 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Post an extract from the HTML file showing a couple of paragraphs.

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