Love Calibre but having problems

[Equanimity]

Hi!!

Greetings from shy lurker and newbie. Love to all fabulous contributors in this forums. Kudos to mobileread admins.Congratulations to kovidgoyal for the fab Calibre.

Got an iphone3gs.Hooray!

Have been playing with it.

Having probs with converting some of pdb books Eg:

Convert book 1 of 1 (Schwartz_s Principles of Surger)
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_justify': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x051CB1F0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.OutputProfile object at 0x051CB3B0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'print_formatted_paras': False,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\users\\owner\\appdata\\local\\temp\\calibre_0 .6.31_szvzzi.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'single_line_paras': False,
'tags': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: PDB Input running
on C:\Users\OWNER\Calibre Library\Schwartz\Schwartz_s Principles of Surger (8)\Schwartz_s Principles of Surger - Schwartz.pdb
Python function terminated unexpectedly
No reader available for format within container.
Identity is SDocSilX. Book type is iSilo 3 (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 90, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 21, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 736, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 208, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\pdb\input.py", line 39, in convert
calibre.ebooks.pdb.PDBError: No reader available for format within container.
Identity is SDocSilX. Book type is iSilo 3


please help!

Wish everybody happy new year 2010 and next decade.

[Equanimity]

More info: Used latest: calibre-0.6.31 PC:Windows Vista 32 bit

Please let me know if you need any more info. Thanks.

[itimpi]

I suspect that the file is in a format that Calibre cannot handle. The .pdb extension just indicates a container type (rather like .xip) and says nothing about the format of the data within the file.

[user_none]

Originally Posted by Equanimity

...
calibre.ebooks.pdb.PDBError: No reader available for format within container.
Identity is SDocSilX. Book type is iSilo 3

iSilo is not a support format.

[Equanimity]

Appreciate your comments.

Could u please indicate whether there is going to be any calibre support for isilo format in the future? cos there are lot of academic books in this format.

I really would like any suggestions to get around this problem. I cant afford isilo (live overseas).

Thank u

[Equanimity]

^BUMP

Request the forum readers / calibre developers give some ideas.

Thanks.....

[user_none]

There are currently no plans to support iSilo (any version) as a conversion format in calibre.

[Equanimity]

Thank you for replying.