Beta testing libprs500's new GUI

[kovidgoyal]

Use the beta gui you're using the old GUI which has many bugs under OSX. See the first post on how to use the beta gui.

[Ravenflight]

Ok, that fixed it. I haven't opened a terminal on the Mac in years- This may be a stupid question, but is there a way to make the beta open as the default gui without having to go into terminal each time?

[Stingo]

Originally Posted by Ravenflight

Ok, that fixed it. I haven't opened a terminal on the Mac in years- This may be a stupid question, but is there a way to make the beta open as the default gui without having to go into terminal each time?

Try typing in the following applescript program and saving

tell application "Terminal"
activate
do script with command "libprs500-beta"
end tell

Save in your applescript directory and select from drop down menu.

[kovidgoyal]

Released 0.3.107 which should hopefully be the last release before 0.4.0.

[htaylor]

A newbie thanks you for telling me where the library was located.
Thanks for your efforts in this project, mostly working great

I get the following error in XP when I try to transfer a converted book to the originating directory.

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'C:/My eBooks/Moon, Elizabeth/Moon, Elizabeth - Vatta 03 - Engaging the Enemy\\Moon\\Engaging the Enemy \\libprs500_5.html'
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 472, in save_to_disk
File "libprs500\gui2\library.pyo", line 114, in save_to_disk
File "libprs500\library\database.pyo", line 1026, in export_to_dir
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'C:/My eBooks/Moon, Elizabeth/Moon, Elizabeth - Vatta 03 - Engaging the Enemy\\Moon\\Engaging the Enemy \\libprs500_5.html'

Does the program not like long filenames? or is this feature not operational yet?

A nice addition for me would be that when transferring a converted program back to disk it would automatically open either the previous directory or the originating directory. I put them back where they came from with their new .lrf extension.

[kovidgoyal]

what version are you using?

[Sal2007]

Hi,
I get the following error when I try to add a PDF document to my library. It crashes the libprs500. I am running the beta GUI. I am able to download the NY Times - very cool!!

Here is the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "libprs500/gui2/main.pyo", line 262, in add_books
File "libprs500/gui2/main.pyo", line 274, in _add_books
File "libprs500/ebooks/metadata/meta.pyo", line 27, in get_metadata
File "libprs500/ebooks/metadata/pdf.pyo", line 30, in get_metadata
File "libprs500/ebooks/pyPdf/pdf.pyo", line 275, in __init__
File "libprs500/ebooks/pyPdf/pdf.pyo", line 515, in read
File "libprs500/ebooks/pyPdf/generic.pyo", line 64, in readObject
File "libprs500/ebooks/pyPdf/generic.pyo", line 342, in readFromStream
File "libprs500/ebooks/pyPdf/generic.pyo", line 64, in readObject
File "libprs500/ebooks/pyPdf/generic.pyo", line 342, in readFromStream
File "libprs500/ebooks/pyPdf/generic.pyo", line 337, in readFromStream
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

Any suggestions? Thanks.

[kovidgoyal]

looks like a bug in the pdf metadata reading code. Can you send me the pdf.

[Sal2007]

There are 2 pdfs attached - they both had the same issues. One is a pdf I created of a web page, the other is one I scanned in from a copier.

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm an OSX specific bug in the pypdf library. I'll modify libprs500 so it fails to read metadata gracefully in the next release. I've notified the author of pypdf, hopefully he'll have a fix.

[Sal2007]

Thanks! I look forward to the release. By the way, are you familiar with the script in the Status Q document below? Apparently, it's a way to print web pages from Safari as pdfs directly to libprs500. The script is "book2prs" and is contained at the link below. The script did not work for me though. What do you think?

http://www.statusq.org/archives/2007/02/27/1309/

[kovidgoyal]

No I dont use OSX. You can try web2lrf as a way of converting websites to LRF files.

[htaylor]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

what version are you using?

Saving books to disk

I was using 03.01.106, I am now trying 1.07

[Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: u"C:/My eBooks\\Moon, Elizabeth\\Deed of Paksenarrion The\nSheepfarmer's Daughter"
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 472, in save_to_disk
File "libprs500\gui2\library.pyo", line 114, in save_to_disk
File "libprs500\library\database.pyo", line 1025, in export_to_dir
WindowsError: [Error 123] The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect: u"C:/My eBooks\\Moon, Elizabeth\\Deed of Paksenarrion The\nSheepfarmer's Daughter"


The title of the book in meta information is; Deed of Paksenarrion The Sheepfarmer's Daughter

It did not make a directory

under this error it make a directory but it is empty

[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'C:/My eBooks\\Moon, Elizabeth\\Engaging the Enemy \\libprs500_5.html'
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 472, in save_to_disk
File "libprs500\gui2\library.pyo", line 114, in save_to_disk
File "libprs500\library\database.pyo", line 1028, in export_to_dir
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'C:/My eBooks\\Moon, Elizabeth\\Engaging the Enemy \\libprs500_5.html'

[Vienna01]

When installing libprs500 last msg is to delete sony's win driver. Does this effect Connect? How?
Thanks again for neat program (do they say "neat" anymore?)

[kovidgoyal]

Yes if you delete the connect driver the connect software wont be able to detect the sony reader