Call for testers - Page 18

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2008, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by birch01

I would have used edit button for this but for some reason it doesn't work. Nothing happens when I press save. Anyway, just another idea, problem or bug. Not sure which one. When you add a cbz or cbr file no cover is extracted from the file. Would it be possible to just grab the first image in the file since that's the cover in 99% of the time.

It's certainly possible, I suggest opening a ticket and I'll get around it when I have the time.

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2008, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by birch01

Ok, this is the last one I think. Next time I'll take some paper and just write things down while I work. There are two things that could be problematic for some users.

For example when you bulk edit metadata for 200+ (246 in my case) files it takes some time for the process to finish. Also when you download meta data for some books with very generic titles, like The state of the art by Ian Banks Calibre goes blank. There's no screen resfresh and no indication that it's still working and not stuck somewhere. Any chance of some indication like a progress bar or spinning hour glass or something?

Does the cursor not change into the busy cursor?

Mitchll · 09-15-2008, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

What language is it in? Or what is the word used?

Had greek checked off in setup page..strange it only affectd the one word!

Changed to english and now correct.

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2008, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Mitchll

Had greek checked off in setup page..strange it only affectd the one word!

Changed to english and now correct.

The Greek translation is far from complete

birch01 · 09-15-2008, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

It picks whatever is your default for that file extension. You should be able to change the default in your desktop and after a restart calibre should pick up the new default.

My default selection in gnome is Comix, but Calibre wants to open comic files in evince every time with this error:

IOError: [Errno socket error] (-2, 'Name or service not known')
evince: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: undefined symbol: dbus_watch_get_unix_fd

I haven't had a chance to test it in KDE though.

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2008, 05:27 PM

It uses http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qdesktopservices.html to open files. I suspect that your getting the unresolved symbol because the binary modifies LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you switch to using the non-binary version of calibre, it should work fine (of course at the moment the only way to do that with the beta is compile from source).

bluesnews · 09-15-2008, 05:30 PM

I am not sure if this is a design choice but moving pdf files to the device by using send to device, none of the meta information is transferred.

Is meta information only applicable for the lrf files?

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2008, 05:34 PM

calibre doesn't write metadata to PDF files (too complicated), only to LRF, EPUB and RTF files. Still it does write the metadata into the devices metadata database, so for some reason your device is overwriting that metadata with what it gets from the PDF. I suspect datetime issues.

bluesnews · 09-15-2008, 05:52 PM

date tine issue meaning that the device and the comp have different dates? I think they are in sync. Should I open a ticket?

birch01 · 09-15-2008, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Does the cursor not change into the busy cursor?

I'm using Gnome at home so maybe that's why the difference. In compiz when changing big quantities of metadata the cursor stays the same, but the program changes colour to black and white, which indicates it's busy or/and not responding.

When you import a 200+ books, I used multiple books per directory option, I lose screen refresh option it's the same, colour changes to black and white...

When you update metadata with that title that produces a lot of hits, I used "The state of the art" I can't click cancel while it's working. So there's no way to stop fetching data for me. The cursor does change to busy.

If I use metacity then the whole program stops refreshing in every turn, the only difference is that instead of non responsive black and white version you get a window that doesn't refresh at all so you can erase the content with dragging another window over it.

And in examples like "The state of art" meta data when you try to guess meta data from just the title, if the title produces too many hits you have to kill the program or wait for ages. In my case I gave up after 10 minutes and killed it.

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2008, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by bluesnews

date tine issue meaning that the device and the comp have different dates? I think they are in sync. Should I open a ticket?

Yeah I'll look at it after this beta series is done. It does work for me.

bluesnews · 09-16-2008, 02:27 AM

New info on the pdf metadata problem:

In Calibre's tabs, it looks like it was transferred fine when you look at the books in the card or the main memory, but in the reader itself the metadata information doesn't' transfer.

Thanks

kovidgoyal · 09-16-2008, 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bluesnews

New info on the pdf metadata problem:

In Calibre's tabs, it looks like it was transferred fine when you look at the books in the card or the main memory, but in the reader itself the metadata information doesn't' transfer.

Thanks

Yeah that's because the list in calibre is built from the metadata database on the reader, which is correct;y updated. The reader is just overwriting it.

Incidentally are you transferring to internal memory or to the storage card.

bluesnews · 09-16-2008, 04:34 AM

I've tried it with both and both have problems. The pdf files edited with a previous version (don't remember which) worked fine.

birch01 · 09-16-2008, 07:15 AM

Is this error a bug?

unknown encoding: euc-tw
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "library.pyz/calibre.gui2.dialogs.metadata_single", line 273, in fetch_cover
File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.metadata.library_thing", line 43, in cover_from_isbn
File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup", line 1432, in __init__
File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup", line 1055, in __init__
File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup", line 1078, in _feed
File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.chardet", line 78, in xml_to_unicode
LookupError: unknown encoding: euc-tw

I get it when I try to get a cover image.

09-16-2008, 02:27 AM	#267
bluesnews Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: sony 505	New info on the pdf metadata problem: In Calibre's tabs, it looks like it was transferred fine when you look at the books in the card or the main memory, but in the reader itself the metadata information doesn't' transfer. Thanks Last edited by bluesnews; 09-16-2008 at 02:31 AM.

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09-15-2008, 05:27 PM	#261
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,382 Karma: 27756918 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It uses http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/qdesktopservices.html to open files. I suspect that your getting the unresolved symbol because the binary modifies LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you switch to using the non-binary version of calibre, it should work fine (of course at the moment the only way to do that with the beta is compile from source).

09-15-2008, 05:30 PM	#262
bluesnews Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: sony 505	I am not sure if this is a design choice but moving pdf files to the device by using send to device, none of the meta information is transferred. Is meta information only applicable for the lrf files?

09-15-2008, 05:34 PM	#263
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,382 Karma: 27756918 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	calibre doesn't write metadata to PDF files (too complicated), only to LRF, EPUB and RTF files. Still it does write the metadata into the devices metadata database, so for some reason your device is overwriting that metadata with what it gets from the PDF. I suspect datetime issues.

09-15-2008, 05:52 PM	#264
bluesnews Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: sony 505	date tine issue meaning that the device and the comp have different dates? I think they are in sync. Should I open a ticket?

09-16-2008, 04:34 AM	#269
bluesnews Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: sony 505	I've tried it with both and both have problems. The pdf files edited with a previous version (don't remember which) worked fine.

09-16-2008, 07:15 AM	#270
birch01 Member Posts: 18 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Device: sony prs500	Is this error a bug? unknown encoding: euc-tw Detailed traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "library.pyz/calibre.gui2.dialogs.metadata_single", line 273, in fetch_cover File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.metadata.library_thing", line 43, in cover_from_isbn File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup", line 1432, in __init__ File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup", line 1055, in __init__ File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup", line 1078, in _feed File "library.pyz/calibre.ebooks.chardet", line 78, in xml_to_unicode LookupError: unknown encoding: euc-tw I get it when I try to get a cover image.