Mobiperl Mobiperl - Perl tools for handling MobiPocket files

[JSWolf]

Will opf2mobi convert an ePub to Mobipocket?

[bobcdy]

I tried another mobi file with mobi2html with the raw option and everything worked fine. Perhaps there was something wrong with the firs file I tried. Thanks for the fast responses!
Bob

[JSWolf]

Is there anyway to import a cover that has a resolution of 510x680 without changing the resolution? If not, then I have a bug to report.

I've found a bug that really needs squashing.. the cover... when adding a cover I get the following...
CREATING COVER IMAGE WITH ID: 7307727
Reading data from file: cover.jpg - 510 x 680 - JPG
SCALE GD: 510 680 -> 480 640

I don't want it scaled. I want it in the original resolution.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Is there anyway to import a cover that has a resolution of 510x680 without changing the resolution? If not, then I have a bug to report.

I've found a bug that really needs squashing.. the cover... when adding a cover I get the following...
CREATING COVER IMAGE WITH ID: 7307727
Reading data from file: cover.jpg - 510 x 680 - JPG
SCALE GD: 510 680 -> 480 640

I don't want it scaled. I want it in the original resolution.

The documentation say --imagerescale 0

[JSWolf]

Thanks!

[enhan222]

Trying mobi2html on WinXP, I first installed ActivePerl 5.8.9 and the required packages. I added the .pl file extention and tried it but the script aborted at line 25:

C:\Documents and Set
tings\Owner\Desktop\New Folder\mobi2html.pl line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\New
Folder\mobi2html.pl line 25.

UPDATE: I found the html2mobi.exe version and tried this and it work FAR more easily than this other approach with ActivePerl, etc, etc.

Thanks for making this application!

Toby

[tompe]

Originally Posted by enhan222

Trying mobi2html on WinXP, I first installed ActivePerl 5.8.9 and the required packages. I added the .pl file extention and tried it but the script aborted at line 25:

C:\Documents and Set
tings\Owner\Desktop\New Folder\mobi2html.pl line 25.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\New
Folder\mobi2html.pl line 25.

UPDATE: I found the html2mobi.exe version and tried this and it work FAR more easily than this other approach with ActivePerl, etc, etc.

Thanks for making this application!

Toby

Did you copy the MobiPerl directory and put it in the same directory as mobi2html? It seems like it does not find MobiPerl::Util but the error message is a bit confusing.

Or maybe you have to run it with "perl mobi2html..."

[barnsdale11]

This is going to sound completely stupid, but I had never seen such a thing as perl before. So if you could help me...

This is my request:

I run on Windows XP, and installed the newest version of ActivePerl.

Then I installed these packages:
* p5-Palm
* TimeDate
* Getopt-Mixed
* Image-Size
* XML-Parser-Lite-Tree
* GD
* Encode
* image-BMP

Then I went to preferences and wrote this repository:
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/package.lst (though it has 0 packages...)

So, what do I do next to install MobiPerl? I want to use Lit2Mobi, but I can't execute anything yet...

Can anyone help me, please?

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by barnsdale11

I run on Windows XP

There are pre-built Windows binaries that don't require Perl, here. You want mobiperl-win-0.0.41.zip.

Note that Calibre (has its own Forum here) can also convert from LIT to MOBI, and it does not require any other software (it is written in Python, but comes pre-built) and also comes with a GUI so you don't need to use the command line (although Calibre's any2mobi --compress ebook.lit will work from the command line like MobiPerl's lit2mobi).

[HarryT]

Hi Tommy,

I've just tried "opf2mobi" for the first time, and I have a question. Apologies if this has been asked before, but I really don't want to read all 50+ pages of this thread .

The end result is excellent, but I've found that it doesn't appear to use the items in the "Guide" section of my OPF file, which work fine with Mobi Creator. I don't get a cover image unless I use the "--coverimage" option, and the "Table of Contents" link in the resulting file takes me to the first page of the file, rather than the "TOC" link defined in the "Guide" section of the file.

[barnsdale11]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

There are pre-built Windows binaries that don't require Perl, here. You want mobiperl-win-0.0.41.zip.
Note that Calibre (has its own Forum here) can also convert from LIT to MOBI, and it does not require any other software (it is written in Python, but comes pre-built) and also comes with a GUI so you don't need to use the command line (although Calibre's any2mobi --compress ebook.lit will work from the command line like MobiPerl's lit2mobi).

Thank you very much!! I've just tried Calibre and it works right, and without so much trouble!

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Hi Tommy,

I've just tried "opf2mobi" for the first time, and I have a question. Apologies if this has been asked before, but I really don't want to read all 50+ pages of this thread .

The end result is excellent, but I've found that it doesn't appear to use the items in the "Guide" section of my OPF file, which work fine with Mobi Creator. I don't get a cover image unless I use the "--coverimage" option, and the "Table of Contents" link in the resulting file takes me to the first page of the file, rather than the "TOC" link defined in the "Guide" section of the file.

As I remember the implementation is a bit limited in functionality. Looking at the code now it seems like it does use the guide section only for TOC and cover image. If you give me an example file with more tags I can probably add more functionality to a future release.

That TOC and coverimage does not work is probably a bug or a limitation. The code looks like:

                   if ($type eq "toc") {
                        $self->set_toc_href ($c->{"attributes"}->{"href"});
                        print STDERR "TOCHREF: ", $self->get_toc_href (), "\n";
                    }
                    if ($type eq "other.ms-coverimage-standard") {
                        my $href = $c->{"attributes"}->{"href"};
                        $self->set_cover_image ($href);
                    }

So if the identifier is not "toc" and "other.ms-coverimage-standard" it will not work. And example file that does not work would be good to have...

[HarryT]

Here's an example.

The file "book.prc" was created from "book.opf" using Mobi Creator. As you'll see when you open it, it has both a cover image, and a "Table of Contents" link which takes you to the TOC. The file "test.mobi" was created from the same OPF file using the command line:

opf2mobi --mobifile test.mobi book.opf

You will find that it has no cover image, and, although it has a "Table of Contents" link, that link takes one to the first page of the book, rather than to the TOC.

I believe that the Guide items in the OPF file are specified as you describe, so any light that you could shed on this would be most welcome.

Thanks!

[HarryT]

Minor change request:

Any OPF file created by Mobi Creator seems to start with the 3 byte sequence:

EF BB BF

immediately before the opening tag <?xml ...

These three bytes make "opf2mobi" give a "junk before XML element" error. Would it be possible to make the tool ignore them?

A little research shows that this is a Unicode "Byte Order Mark" sequence indicating that the file has UTF-8 encoding. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

for details.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by HarryT

A little research shows that this is a Unicode "Byte Order Mark" sequence indicating that the file has UTF-8 encoding. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark

for details.

Yea, that is pretty standard for a text file to specify encoding. I think if a file doesn't have them it is assumed to be ANSI something or other.

The XML dom processor that perl has should certainly be able to support this accordingly. But I do admit I don't use perl at all...been quite a while.

BOb