Help! New to Calibre

[JulieMack]

Originally Posted by Manichean

That's kinda strange. Are those things at the front of the ODT, then?

By the way, if the PDF route works well for you, then by all means, use it. I was just trying to give the general hint that most of the time, PDF converts rather bad.

They don't look to be in the front of the .odt only when I convert it. This happens sometimes when I cut and paste from word somewhere else, but I normally can edit the file. ANyhow, I will keep working it. I appreciate it!! I gave you some karma!!!

[rlevitt]

Originally Posted by JulieMack

Hi, I am new to Calibre and I found this forum - hoping someone can help! I am trying to convert an .htm file and I keep having problems. I did submit a ticket, but I thought I would come here.

Here is the error:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (SuccessfulBlog)

Convert book 1 of 1 (SuccessfulBlog)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.40
{'asciiize': False,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 0.0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'breadth_first': False,
 'change_justification': u'original',
 'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part|prologue|epilogue\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'disable_font_rescaling': False,
 'dont_package': False,
 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,
 'epub_flatten': 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>)',
 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x1079fd950>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'keep_ligatures': False,
 '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_levels': 5,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
 'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_default_epub_cover': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': False,
 'no_svg_cover': False,
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x1079fdf10>,
 'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'preprocess_html': False,
 'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,
 'pretty_print': True,
 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': '/var/folders/7D/7Dkn3HjzHa8yKAMRN3BviU+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.7.40_tmp_CPzBYN/calibre_0.7.40_DfX_yv.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,
 'smarten_punctuation': False,
 'tags': None,
 'timestamp': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2}
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [6:2: panose-1]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [7:2: mso-font-charset]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [8:2: mso-generic-font-family]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [9:2: mso-font-pitch]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [10:2: mso-font-signature]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [13:3: mso-style-parent]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [16:2: mso-pagination]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [19:2: mso-fareast-font-family]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [20:2: mso-bidi-font-family]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [22:3: mso-style-link]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [25:2: mso-pagination]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [26:2: tab-stops]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [29:2: mso-fareast-font-family]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [30:2: mso-bidi-font-family]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [32:3: mso-style-link]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [35:2: mso-pagination]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [36:2: tab-stops]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [39:2: mso-fareast-font-family]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [40:2: mso-bidi-font-family]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [42:3: mso-style-name]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [43:2: mso-style-locked]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [44:2: mso-style-link]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [45:2: mso-ansi-font-size]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [46:2: mso-bidi-font-size]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [48:3: mso-style-name]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [49:2: mso-style-locked]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [50:2: mso-style-link]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [51:2: mso-ansi-font-size]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [52:2: mso-bidi-font-size]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [56:2: mso-header-margin]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [57:2: mso-footer-margin]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [58:2: mso-footer]
WARNING	Property: Unknown Property name. [59:2: mso-paper-source]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [63:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [67:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [88:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [109:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [130:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [151:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [172:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [193:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [214:1: @list]
WARNING	CSSStylesheet: Unknown @rule found. [235:1: @list]
Python function terminated unexpectedly: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes
InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running
on /Users/Julie/Calibre Library/Unknown/SuccessfulBlog (11)/SuccessfulBlog - Unknown.htm
Language not specified
Creator not specified
Building file list...
	Found files...
		 HTMLFile:0:a:/Users/Julie/Calibre Library/Unknown/SuccessfulBlog (11)/SuccessfulBlog - Unknown.htm
Normalizing filename cases
Rewriting HTML links
Parsing SuccessfulBlog%20-%20Unknown.htm ...
Initial parse failed:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py", line 857, in first_pass
  File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2532, in lxml.etree.fromstring (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:48634)
  File "parser.pxi", line 1545, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:72245)
  File "parser.pxi", line 1417, in lxml.etree._parseDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71041)
  File "parser.pxi", line 898, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:67581)
  File "parser.pxi", line 539, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64257)
  File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:65178)
  File "parser.pxi", line 565, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64521)
XMLSyntaxError: AttValue: " or ' expected, line 8, column 11

Parsing file 'SuccessfulBlog%20-%20Unknown.htm' as HTML
Forcing SuccessfulBlog%20-%20Unknown.htm into XHTML namespace
File 'SuccessfulBlog%20-%20Unknown.htm' missing <title/> element
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 147, in main
    return run_entry_point()
  File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.7/site.py", line 116, in run_entry_point
    return getattr(pmod, func)()
  File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 107, in main
  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 855, in run
  File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 216, in __call__
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py", line 295, in convert
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/html/input.py", line 374, in create_oebbook
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py", line 224, in rewrite_links
  File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 821, in lxml.etree._Element.text.__set__ (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:33308)
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 646, in lxml.etree._setNodeText (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:15287)
  File "apihelpers.pxi", line 1295, in lxml.etree._utf8 (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:20212)
ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes

Looks pretty bad, but I have no idea what it means. The document was created in Word, and then saved as a .htm before I added to Calibre.

Thanks!

Julie

I've encountered the same problem on Word for Mac. A partial fix is to save the .doc file as either an rtf or pdf and use the resulting file to convert using Calibre