[GUI Plugin] EpubSplit

[theducks]

Originally Posted by happysadhu

Hello,
First off. Thanks for creating such an awesome plugin--very handy!

Overall, it works great. However, every time I finish selecting the sections to split off and edit the meta edit, the Calibre hangs while it is processing the new epub. The dialog box "Select Sections to Split Off" says "not responding". After a few seconds (e.g., 20 seconds), Calibre and the epubsplit dialog box returns to functioning normally. Is this the typical behavior of the plugin?

Pretty much typical behavior of any really intensive computer operation.
How visible depends on the size/complexity of the operation and the wimpyness of the system
This is standard on my ancient P4 (it even impacts my Solitaire game that I play while waiting on conversions).
Split has to have at least 3 sets of files open:
1) the original
2) the Split-off body
3) the Split-off CSS

and typically, #1 is not small, else why bother to split

If you think you HAVE a high powered system (by tomorrows standards ), check out you security suite settings, it may be part of the bottlneck.

[JimmXinu]

Okay, I'm back from vacation now.

Originally Posted by happysadhu

... However, every time I finish selecting the sections to split off and edit the meta edit, the Calibre hangs while it is processing the new epub. The dialog box "Select Sections to Split Off" says "not responding". After a few seconds (e.g., 20 seconds), Calibre and the epubsplit dialog box returns to functioning normally. Is this the typical behavior of the plugin?

Glad you like it.

20sec seems a bit long, but as theducks rightly points out, it's going to depend on the size of the epub file you're splitting and the speed of (and the load on) your machine.

Splitting off one book from a 9 book anthology containing some 1.1 million total words takes my system ~15sec.

So I can't say 20sec is completely unreasonable.

[scdoshen]

*Love* the plugin. It has worked on almost every bundle I've tried it on and appeals to my OCD tendencies to have entire library organized and cleaned-up!!

There is one bundle it hasn't worked on, with following error:

calibre, version 1.3.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>IOError</b>:[Errno 32] Broken pipe

calibre 1.3 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Darwin-12.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit Darwin ('64bit', '')
('Darwin', '12.5.0', 'Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Mon Jul 29 16:33:49 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.11~1/RELEASE_X86_64')
Python 2.7.5
OSX: ('10.8.5', ('', '', ''), 'x86_64')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.epubsplit.epubsplit_plugin", line 125, in plugin_button
File "calibre_plugins.epubsplit.epubsplit", line 646, in get_split_lines
File "calibre_plugins.epubsplit.epubsplit", line 1057, in splitHtml
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

Any and all help would be appreciated. (Caveat: I'm not a programmer so hoping it's a simple fix!) Thanks!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by scdoshen

*Love* the plugin. It has worked on almost every bundle I've tried it on and appeals to my OCD tendencies to have entire library organized and cleaned-up!!

There is one bundle it hasn't worked on, with following error:

calibre, version 1.3.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>IOError</b>:[Errno 32] Broken pipe
...

Can you post a copy of the epub you're trying to split? Or upload it somewhere and PM me a URL? Without the epub, I don't know what's wrong.

Failing that, you could try doing a Polish Book or epub->epub convert and then trying splitting again.

[JimmXinu]

Attached is a version for scdoshen to try.

UPDATE Sep 21, 2013 - new test version.

UPDATE Sep 22, 2013 - Remove obsolete beta versions

[scdoshen]

Thanks Jim! The last new test version worked like a charm. Appreciate your help!

[JimmXinu]

Version 1.3.0 - 22 Sep 2013

• Remove debug output. Caused errors for a Mac user with a large epub.

[gabby98]

Could there be a option or default where once the split is created the Title on the Edit Metadata screen automatically receives focus with text selected?

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by gabby98

Could there be a option or default where once the split is created the Title on the Edit Metadata screen automatically receives focus with text selected?

I don't think so. EpubSplit calls the regular calibre metadata edit dialog and it doesn't do that, that I know of.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

I don't think so. EpubSplit calls the regular calibre metadata edit dialog and it doesn't do that, that I know of.

Oh, OK...thanks for responding

[gabby98]

Sorry...quick question

I just started using this PI less than a month ago, but it was on an older version of the program (0.9x). When I used it, a folder opened up and I was able to make certain changes to the files and then it would save the new epub. Now that I've updated to 1.5 this doesn't happen. Am I missing something, for those events when I actually need to do this, or is that no longer available?

Thank you again!

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by gabby98

Sorry...quick question

I just started using this PI less than a month ago, but it was on an older version of the program (0.9x). When I used it, a folder opened up and I was able to make certain changes to the files and then it would save the new epub. Now that I've updated to 1.5 this doesn't happen. Am I missing something, for those events when I actually need to do this, or is that no longer available?

Thank you again!

That sounds like calibre's built in Tweak Book feature.

[gabby98]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

That sounds like calibre's built in Tweak Book feature.

....my memory plays tricks.

thank you. now I have all i need between the 2

[rxmom03]

This is awesome
(there is nothing else to say LOL)

Mary

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by rxmom03

This is awesome
(there is nothing else to say LOL)

Mary

It's always nice to hear. You're quite welcome.