Beta testing libprs500's new GUI

[StDo]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

1) Add tags to create collections.

2) In the authors field you should write the entries as the full name like Firstnae Lastname & firstname Last name. If you want the authors to sort as Lastname, Firstname, use the author sort field.

Hi Kovid,

1)
so it is at the moment impossibe to use the "Series" "Book 4" Fields? They are not used on the PRS?
What is the purpose of these fields?

2)
Is there a comma needed?

[kovidgoyal]

You can search within the database on those fields. No the comma is not needed the sort field basically sorts starting from the first character.

[SteffenH]

Thank you! Steffen

[ddavtian]

Kovid, I get this error when trying to convert pdf documents. From document to document it's the same error message, except the line numbers in the error message. Is this a known problem?

Thanks, David

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 539, in convert_single
File "libprs500\gui2\dialogs\lrf_single.pyo", line 68, in __init__
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split'

[kovidgoyal]

No that should not be happening. When you click on the PDF book in the main view what formats are listed for it?

[ddavtian]

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When I try to add a pdf to library, I get the same error and no book is added. I keep adding the same pdf or another one, I always get the same error, only line number is different. Then, randomly, after another error message, all the docs are added to library (right now it took 8 additions until all 8 docs were shown in library, some of them were duplicates because I was adding the same doc). If I try to convert any of them, I get the same error message.

This is not important for me, I only wanted to let you know.
David

[kovidgoyal]

I can't reproduce this error, which makes me suspect your
database is messed up. Just delete/rename the file library1.db and you should be ok. (You will lose all books in the database)

[ddavtian]

Thanks for quick replies.
I deleted the db file, opened libprs500, no books in library, tried to add a pdf doc, got the same error again, tried to add three times in a row, finally got the doc in library, repeated 3 times.

I'll wait for the next release, will try later again.

[ddavtian]

Hi Kovid.
Here are few more error messages that I get when try to add a pdf or lrf (created with pdflrfwin). I have deleted library1.db many times, tried a fresh install, no luck.
These are not blockers for me, I can always move files to device through a card reader, wanted only to let you know (may be it's my machine).

Could not parse XML: not well-formed (invalid token): line 21, column 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 265, in add_books
File "main.py", line 277, in _add_books
File "libprs500\ebooks\metadata\meta.pyo", line 25, in get_metadata
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\meta.pyo", line 257, in get_metadata
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\meta.pyo", line 156, in __get__
File "xml\dom\minidom.pyo", line 1923, in parseString
File "xml\dom\expatbuilder.pyo", line 940, in parseString
File "xml\dom\expatbuilder.pyo", line 223, in parseString
ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 21, column 0

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 265, in add_books
File "main.py", line 277, in _add_books
File "libprs500\ebooks\metadata\meta.pyo", line 27, in get_metadata
File "libprs500\ebooks\metadata\pdf.pyo", line 31, in get_metadata
File "libprs500\ebooks\pyPdf\pdf.pyo", line 293, in getDocumentInfo
File "libprs500\ebooks\pyPdf\pdf.pyo", line 558, in getObject
Exception: file has not been decrypted

[kovidgoyal]

Hmm can you send me one pdf and one LRF.

[ddavtian]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Hmm can you send me one pdf and one LRF.

Sent to your personal address from your home page.
Thanks, David

[Vash]

Hello,

I'm attempting to upgrade to the latest libprs500 using the install instructions on trac. I'm using ubuntu feisty. Below is the output from the install attempt. It seems that I'm missing some dependency but I cant tell what

Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.5/l/libprs500/libprs500-0.4.5-py2.5.egg#md5=b214d6743c09fc5508acf46828fc3876
Processing libprs500-0.4.5-py2.5.egg
Moving libprs500-0.4.5-py2.5.egg to /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
Removing libprs500 0.3.104 from easy-install.pth file
Adding libprs500 0.4.5 to easy-install.pth file
Installing lrf-meta script to /usr/bin
Installing any2lrf script to /usr/bin
Installing libprs500_postinstall script to /usr/bin
Installing rtf-meta script to /usr/bin
Installing web2lrf script to /usr/bin
Installing lrfviewer script to /usr/bin
Installing pdf2lrf script to /usr/bin
Installing lrf2lrs script to /usr/bin
Installing web2disk script to /usr/bin
Installing html2lrf script to /usr/bin
Installing markdown-libprs500 script to /usr/bin
Installing pdf-meta script to /usr/bin
Installing prs500 script to /usr/bin
Installing txt2lrf script to /usr/bin
Installing lit2lrf script to /usr/bin
Installing rtf2lrf script to /usr/bin
Installing libprs500 script to /usr/bin

Installed /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/libprs500-0.4.5-py2.5.egg
Processing dependencies for libprs500
Trying to setup udev rules...
/bin/sh: udevstart: not found
 * Reloading kernel event manager...                                                        [ OK ] 
Setting up bash completion... done
Setting up desktop integration...
/bin/sh: xdg-icon-resource: not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/libprs500_postinstall", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('libprs500==0.4.5', 'console_scripts', 'libprs500_postinstall')()
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/linux.py", line 200, in post_install
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/linux.py", line 261, in setup_desktop_integration
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 461, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'xdg-icon-resource install --context mimetypes --size 128 libprs500-lrf.png application-lrf' returned non-zero exit status 127
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/apport_python_hook.py", line 44, in apport_excepthook
    binary = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwdu(), sys.argv[0]))
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/libprs500_postinstall", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('libprs500==0.4.5', 'console_scripts', 'libprs500_postinstall')()
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/linux.py", line 200, in post_install
  File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/libprs500/linux.py", line 261, in setup_desktop_integration
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 461, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'xdg-icon-resource install --context mimetypes --size 128 libprs500-lrf.png application-lrf' returned non-zero exit status 127

I'm hoping someone can help me. I really dont want to boot to windows to load up books any longer

[kovidgoyal]

You can ignore that error. It's related to desktop integration. It will work fine without it.

[Vash]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You can ignore that error. It's related to desktop integration. It will work fine without it.

cool! Thanks. Now I need to find the proper PyQT4 libs to make adding books work. Eric works well and seems to require the same libs, but I've the the restoreState dependency that I cant find the package that enables it..

[kovidgoyal]

the easiest thing to do is install pyqt from a development snapshot. It's just

python configure.py
make
sudo make install