LRF output

[Valdhor]

Thank you.

That will make it much easier to find where the error is.

I have been looking for days trying to find a complex or nested table but with over 4700 lines and lots of small tables it's gonna take a while

[Valdhor]

sorry, that should have been 47000 lines.

[kovidgoyal]

why dont you run html2lrf on the individual files? that way you can narrow down the search a lot.

[Valdhor]

Well, that would have worked but I figured out where the problem was - rowspan="2".

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm was that in a relatively simple table? Because if it was it's a bug in html2lrf and i'd like you to send me the html file so I can fix it.

[Valdhor]

Basically, there are a whole bunch of these type constructs which are small tips...

<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="images/note.gif"></td>
<th align="left">Note</th>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
When specifying multiple parents for a Role, keep in mind that the last parent 
listed is the first one searched for rules applicable to an authorization query.
</p></td></tr>
</table></div>

If you remove the rowspan="2" then html2lrf works fine.

I will email you the entire file separately.

[kovidgoyal]

thanks it wasn't rowspan=2 it was this table in particular that's causing the problem:

<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note">
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="images/note.gif"></td>
<th align="left">Note</th>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>
When specifying multiple parents for a Role, keep in mind that the last parent 
listed is the first one searched for rules applicable to an authorization query.
</p></td></tr>
</table></div>

[DNel]

I just downloaded the libprs500.exe windows installer. In the installation I chose not to install the drivers as I don't have my eReader yet and don't want to lose the ability to use the Connect. After installing, I clicked on the libprs500 icon to launch the program and got the following error message in the associated log

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 25, in <module>
File "libprs500\devices\prs500\driver.pyo", line 56, in <module>
File "libprs500\devices\libusb.pyo", line 32, in <module>
File "libprs500\__init__.pyo", line 50, in load_library
File "ctypes\__init__.pyo", line 423, in LoadLibrary
File "ctypes\__init__.pyo", line 340, in __init__
WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found

Any ideas? I uninstalled and then did a reinstall and got the same error. Is it because I unchecked the driver?

Thanks
DNel

[kovidgoyal]

yeah its a bug. I'll fix it in the next release. You can install the drivers and then uninstall libprs500 and the connect software wont be affected.

[DNel]

Thanks, I was able to run libprs500 after I reinstalled with the drivers. However, being completely illiterate when it comes to using it I see that there are icons for add books to library, delete books, edit meta information. After adding the HTML file to library, I don't see how to convert it to LRF. THere is also no place to enter command lines. One of the previous posts mentioned the command line program was in the libprs500 folder. I only see libprs500 (the gui interface) uninstall, and a link to your web page. How do I convert it now to LRF format?

Thanks
DNel

Sorry for being so computer illiterate

[kovidgoyal]

Ah yes the conversion tools have not yet been integrated with the GUI. At the moment what you need to do is the following:
1) Open a command prompt (Start->run->cmd.exe)
2) change to the folder with the html file (cd "c:\myfolder")
3) html2lrf "myfile.html"

As I get the time I will integrate the conversion tools into the GUI, but that's going to take a while.

[DNel]

Thanks,
I tried it on a sample web page and it work great.
DNel

[JSWolf]

I can't find any way to generate left justified text with html2lrf. Everything ends up fully justified even if I specify align="left" or style="text-align:left".

Please, please, please add a way to generate left justified text!

Thanks

P.S. copied since it does belong here.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I can't find any way to generate left justified text with html2lrf. Everything ends up fully justified even if I specify align="left" or style="text-align:left".

Please, please, please add a way to generate left justified text!

Thanks

You cannot have left justified text unless you put in the hard returns. It's just the way LRF for the Sony Reader works. So get to hitting return.

[Excalibur]

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for a decent set of conversion utilities.

I did, however, want to point out that you should be reading the .opf file instead of the .html file that is generated with ConvertLit. I noticed that you have probably hardcoded the .htm extension into the converter, bad practice. The .opf has all the file names necessary for the content, covers, etc. and you should instead focus on that while still not hard coding file extensions.

The reason I suggest this? Some of the LIT files I have have text instead of HTML as the body of the book and your tool craps out when it doesn't find an HTML file. The OPF, which is always parsed and output by ConvertLit consistently uses the id of "content" for the main body. You could grab that file name instead of relying on an HTML file being generated. It'd make the tool a bit more stable.

Just my opinion.

Do you know where the format specs for LIT and LRF can be found? I would like to take a look at how the files are set up...

Also, a feature request:
Could you set it up so that we could make CSS style changes from the commandline as well? For instance, setting text-indent for <p> tags. This would make the books look oh so much nicer with some indentation going on