[GUI Plugin] EpubSplit

[blewbubbles]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I chose to believe iamallmight knew what they were talking about.

Although I will confess I missed the part where they tried re-installing the plugin already.

Nothing in EpubSplit settings should keep it from appearing as an 'action' to Calibre. Especially on first install when it doesn't have any settings yet.

I'd like to see a debug log from iamallmight before speculating more.

Hi JimmXinu. In an attempt to split an omnibus epub, I found your plugin (thank you very much) for Calibre. However, I ran into exactly the same situation as the user iamallmight, who mentioned that they couldn't get the plugin icon to appear in the menu bar. The same is (was) true for me, but I managed to get it working by installing version EpubSplit-2.8.0.zip from the github releases page. So, this is just to confirm that iamallmight is quite right. There is no way for me to troubleshoot the issue any further than to only inform you that there must be something wrong with the latest release 2.9.0 zip archive, or something.

So, what happens when you install 2.9.0 is, you get the calibre dialogue "Success: Plugin EpubSplit successfully installed under User interface action plugins.", but the following dialogue that provides options to add a link to the menus, doesn't appear. As I said, version 2.8.0 installs correctly.

[DNSB]

Odd. I don't use the plugin but decided to install it. During the install, it asked where and I stayed with the default Main Toolbar and Main Toolbar with Device Connected. Since the main toolbar was full, I had to click on the widget at the right end of the toolbar to see the icon for EpubSplit. See attached image.

[JSWolf]

With Calibre 4.15, I added the EpubSplit icon to the main toolbar. I restarted Calibre and the icon is still there.

@blewbubbles did you go to Preferences > Toolbars & menus > The main toolbar and add the icon to the toolbar? I did because I didn't have one there because I use it from the right click menu.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by blewbubbles

So, what happens when you install 2.9.0 is, you get the calibre dialogue "Success: Plugin EpubSplit successfully installed under User interface action plugins.", but the following dialogue that provides options to add a link to the menus, doesn't appear. As I said, version 2.8.0 installs correctly.

What version of calibre are you installing EpubSplit on? It showed on the toolbar for 4.15 and could be added to the right click context menu. As for the toolbar menu, AFAIK, that would only appear the first time you install EpubSplit.

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by blewbubbles

... There is no way for me to troubleshoot the issue any further than to only inform you that there must be something wrong with the latest release 2.9.0 zip archive, or something.
...

On the contrary, there's a lot more you could tell me:

What version of Calibre are you using?

What OS are you using?

Are you using a Calibre install from download.calibre-ebook.com? Which one? (Windows has 32bit, 64bit and Portable versions)

Have you tried installing the plugin while running Calibre in debug mode as I suggested to iamallmight? Posting the resulting debug log might tell us a lot.


I just tried installing the plugin in a clean Calibre 4.15 Portable (win10) install and it worked exactly as expected.

[blewbubbles]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I just tried installing the plugin in a clean Calibre 4.15 Portable (win10) install and it worked exactly as expected.

Ah! I'm using Linux, not windows. I clean installed Calibre 3.21 (from apt repository) and tried to installed the epub split plugin (2.9.0). The result was the same as in any previous attempt, where I wouldn't get the dialogue to choose where to put the plugin link, with the result that the icon didn't appear anywhere. On my system and Calibre version, the 2.9.0 plugin doesn't install properly, but the 2.8.0 release does. So, no sweat, I've got it working for now and that is great!

System: Linux Mint 19.2 (ubuntu bionic)
Calibre: 3.21.0
Python 2.7.17 (default)

Thanks for all the recommendations, much appreciated.

[blewbubbles]

OK.. JimmXinu thanks, I took a tip from your last post, and downloaded Calibre 4.15 from download.calibre-ebook. com. I ran it from the uncompressed folder with a clean setup, and in this case EpubSplit 2.9.0 installs correctly. Thanks a lot! And BTW it works great!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by blewbubbles

System: Linux Mint 19.2 (ubuntu bionic)
Calibre: 3.21.0
Python 2.7.17 (default)

* commit 4a9392ec3f45eb53cdb46d465ab864fee042f4b8 (tag: v3.21.0)
| Author: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
| Date:   Fri Apr 6 07:37:41 2018 +0530
|
|     version 3.21.0

Yeah, that version is over 2 years old and probably doesn't have the py2/py3 compatibility changes that are needed.

In the next release, I will increase the minimum Calibre version to v3.48 (the last v3)--that one worked when I tested it.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by blewbubbles

Ah! I'm using Linux, not windows. I clean installed Calibre 3.21 (from apt repository) and tried to installed the epub split plugin (2.9.0). The result was the same as in any previous attempt, where I wouldn't get the dialogue to choose where to put the plugin link, with the result that the icon didn't appear anywhere. On my system and Calibre version, the 2.9.0 plugin doesn't install properly, but the 2.8.0 release does. So, no sweat, I've got it working for now and that is great!

System: Linux Mint 19.2 (ubuntu bionic)
Calibre: 3.21.0
Python 2.7.17 (default)

Thanks for all the recommendations, much appreciated.

Never ever install Calibre from some useless repository. There are a lot of things that can be wrong with it. Always download Calibre from the official Calibre website.

[blewbubbles]

Glad to be of help. Baffeling that I've been using the install from repo, which is clearly very old. And actually, Calibre is one of the easiest apps to to "install" from a pre-built archive. It's not always so easy for me to build from source due to limitations of my setup. I've got Sigil built from source though. So, I will give it a shot with Calibre and see how it goes. Thanks guys.

[PandathePanda]

Does this work with Epub3 compilations?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by PandathePanda

Does this work with Epub3 compilations?

No. And if you try, it will complain.

But you can change a v3 epub to v2 using Calibre's Convert (output epub, set output version=2) and then use it.

[PandathePanda]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

But you can change a v3 epub to v2 using Calibre's Convert (output epub, set output version=2) and then use it.

Thanx That did it

[Deskisamess]

Decided to try this plugin today, and was pleased with the result. Even a user like me, who tends to fly by the seat of my pants when it comes to this type of thing, was able to split a couple of book bundles I have into individual books.

Happy dance!

[JimmXinu]

New Test Version Attached

2020-01-30
- Don't sort TOC items in same file. Fix for prior fix(a633bd1756b993947506e8eb9351d72e984bd3c5) - Reported by kiwidude
- Add busy cursor while reading split data.
- Update translations.
- Bump Release Version 3.0.0 - min calibre v3.48.0