RB2Project - Does it work?

[tmaynard]

I have been unable to get RB2Project to work -- it dies complaining that it can't find eBook Publisher (which is installed, of course).

Reading the Perl source the point at which it dies is:
my $proj = Win32::OLE->new("SBPublisher.Project.3");

[Edit:] Since first posting this note I have found the exact string in quotes above in my registry. So now it's even more confusing. [/Edit]

Has anyone made this work? And how?

TIA,
Tom.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by tmaynard

I have been unable to get RB2Project to work -- it dies complaining that it can't find eBook Publisher (which is installed, of course).

Reading the Perl source the point at which it dies is:
my $proj = Win32::OLE->new("SBPublisher.Project.3");

[Edit:] Since first posting this note I have found the exact string in quotes above in my registry. So now it's even more confusing. [/Edit]

Has anyone made this work? And how?

TIA,
Tom.

For me it just explodes the file and then I manually use eBook Publisher to work with the exploded file which is always called Project. I actually prefer this since it gives me a chance to modify a few things.

Dale

[tmaynard]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

For me it just explodes the file

And for me it just dies ugly and does nothing. Besides unzipping the file into some directory, what other installation steps did you take?

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by tmaynard

And for me it just dies ugly and does nothing. Besides unzipping the file into some directory, what other installation steps did you take?

If you look at what it explodes you will find all of the pieces you need to generate a book. I rename the project to the real name and then import the stuff into eBook publisher.

Dale

[tmaynard]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

I rename the project to the real name and then import the stuff into eBook publisher.

Ah, so it dies on your system too? I did look in the directory it created and there is the "guts" of the book in HTML but it never got far enough to create a project file.

After the dust settles there are enough pieces left over to build a project and thence a book, it just bothers me that it doesn't run to completion.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by tmaynard

Ah, so it dies on your system too? I did look in the directory it created and there is the "guts" of the book in HTML but it never got far enough to create a project file.

After the dust settles there are enough pieces left over to build a project and thence a book, it just bothers me that it doesn't run to completion.

Actually mine does not crash. The dos window appears and then runs and goes away. I just figured I haven't got something installed correctly in that it can't find eBook publisher but it builds everything ok for me so I just rename the RBProject.opf and continue on. I get a log file that looks something like:

Tidy -retro (vers 4/30/00 rev 3/12/05) Parsing "E:\EBOOKS\RB Books.bookshelf\Bible_Stories_and_Religious_\wells p103810380.html"
line 302 column 55 - Warning: discarding unexpected </a>
line 1532 column 4 - Warning: trimming empty <p>

"E:\EBOOKS\RB Books.bookshelf\Bible_Stories_and_Religious_\wells p103810380.html" appears to be HTML 3.2
2 warnings/errors were found!

HTML & CSS specifications are available from http://www.w3.org/
To learn more about Tidy see http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
Please send bug reports to Dave Raggett care of <html-tidy@w3.org>
Lobby your company to join W3C, see http://www.w3.org/Consortium

Do you get a log file?

Dale

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Actually mine does not crash. The dos window appears and then runs and goes away. I just figured I haven't got something installed correctly in that it can't find eBook publisher but it builds everything ok for me so I just rename the RBProject.opf and continue on. I get a log file that looks something like:

Dale

I also get another log file containing.
1/10/2008 8:27:40 Running '"D:\MYDOCU~1\eBooks\Programs\RB2PRO~1\unrb.exe " -i "BIBLE_~1.RB"'
1/10/2008 8:27:40 Creating RBProject.opf based on title.info
1/10/2008 8:27:41 Converting 1 files
1/10/2008 8:27:41 Converting E:\EBOOKS\RB Books.bookshelf\Bible_Stories_and_Religious_\wells p103810380.html, log will be in E:\EBOOKS\RB Books.bookshelf\Bible_Stories_and_Religious_\wells p103810380.log
1/10/2008 8:27:41 Running D:\MYDOCU~1\eBooks\Programs\RB2PRO~1\tidy.exe -retro -dmi -cover --keep-time n -f E:\EBOOKS\RB Books.bookshelf\Bible_Stories_and_Religious_\wells p103810380.log -m E:\EBOOKS\RB Books.bookshelf\Bible_Stories_and_Religious_\wells p103810380.html
1/10/2008 8:27:42 Done: Success

1/10/2008 8:27:42 End: ReturnCode = 0

[tmaynard]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Do you get a log file?

I do, but it is quite terse:

1/10/2008 9:47:01 Running unrb.exe -i "FUTURE~1.RB"'
1/10/2008 9:47:02 Creating RBProject.opf based on title.info
1/10/2008 9:47:02 Done: FAILED. Unable to get IProject Interface!
>>> Is eBook Publisher version 2.1 or later installed? <<<
1/10/2008 9:47:02 End: ReturnCode = -2

It dies on the very first call to SBPublisher.

[tmaynard]

Originally Posted by tmaynard

Has anyone made this work? And how?

Ha! I got it working. I found (on McAfee's site of all places) that installing the eBookwise Librarian makes a number of entries in the Registry ... exactly those that RB2Project was callling.

I had installed the Librarian well after I installed Publisher so I thought maybe the entries were pointing in the wrong direction. I simply re-installed eBook Publisher and now RB2P is working just fine. (Of course, the Librarian may be messed up now ... I haven't checked it.)

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by tmaynard

Ha! I got it working. I found (on McAfee's site of all places) that installing the eBookwise Librarian makes a number of entries in the Registry ... exactly those that RB2Project was callling.

I had installed the Librarian well after I installed Publisher so I thought maybe the entries were pointing in the wrong direction. I simply re-installed eBook Publisher and now RB2P is working just fine. (Of course, the Librarian may be messed up now ... I haven't checked it.)

Yes I seem to remember some problems between publisher and librarian but I didn't realize they effected RBProject. I have both running so it should be possible to get everything working together more or less.

Dale

[tmaynard]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

I have both running so it should be possible to get everything working together more or less.

This is just a [bump] on this thread -- if any admins are reading this may be suitable for a sticky.

The problem comes about with the Librarian is installed *after* eBook Publisher. The Librarian installs an older version of the Publisher code, and the Registry entries all point to backleveled code.

The solution is either (A) install Publisher last, or (B) simply re-install Publisher (which amounts to exactly the same thing).