Beta testers for calibre 9 needed

[bustacap]

why is it eating dozens of gb on the c drive?
i assume it has something to do with the page number algorithm, but its just getting out of hand if you have a lot of comics and manga :P
space is freed again when calibre is closed

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by bustacap

why is it eating dozens of gb on the c drive?
i assume it has something to do with the page number algorithm, but its just getting out of hand if you have a lot of comics and manga :P
space is freed again when calibre is closed

I don't know about during the counting of the entire library, but when calibre is run after the count and after the bookshelf is made, it's using less then 1GB of storage. This is while just the library loaded, the bookshelf is showing, and not doing anything else.

I know there will more storage used when you do things that require temp files.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yeah the only way to get them "correct" would be to do a full layout of the DOCX file. DOCX markup doesnt define pages, only block level elements like paragraphs. How they are laid out in pages is upto the software displaying the file. If by correct you mean what word would show then yes one has to re-implement words layout engine. This is both way too much work and way too slow for page counting.

Given the degree of inaccuracy (e.g. 38 for 28, 410 for 226) I suggest calibre should not calculate the Pages column for Books that only have a DOCX format.

If a book has multiple formats, which format takes precedence in calculating the Pages column ? Apologies if that's already been addressed.

BR

[theducks]

8.99.1 Editor ABENDS for me.
I launch using 'T', then open a file. While staring at it, The Editor just closes.
Pretty much a Stock W10 pro.

BTW The Preview did this also. The When was not consistent. One book just close shortly after launch. Another like above.

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Pen and touch	No pen or touch input is available for this display

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by bustacap

why is it eating dozens of gb on the c drive?
i assume it has something to do with the page number algorithm, but its just getting out of hand if you have a lot of comics and manga :P
space is freed again when calibre is closed

Pages counting happens only once so I doubt its that. Not to mention that for comics it doesnt even extract the comic files, just counts the number of image files in the comic archive.

Look at the calibre temp directory and see what is taking up the space.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by theducks

8.99.1 Editor ABENDS for me.
I launch using 'T', then open a file. While staring at it, The Editor just closes.
Pretty much a Stock W10 pro.

This will be a Qt issue wrt to your graphics drivers. The first thing to try is update your graphics driver. Then you can try setting the env var to disable hardware acceleration in Qt WenEngine as described in https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qtwebengine-debugging.html

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Given the degree of inaccuracy (e.g. 38 for 28, 410 for 226) I suggest calibre should not calculate the Pages column for Books that only have a DOCX format.

As I said before the pages column values are not meant to be any sort of "accurate" count. They basically reflect how much text and images is in the book, therefore how many pages they would take if printed out without any styling and on "common" page size. Do not use it for anything other than that.

If a book has multiple formats, which format takes precedence in calculating the Pages column ? Apologies if that's already been addressed.
BR

Starts with formats that have defined numbers of pages such as PDF and comics. Then plain text formats then EPUB then whatever is in your input format order under Preferences->Behavior.