[GUI Plugin] Job Spy

[DaltonST]

It is incorrect that it modifies the source file itself. It makes a copy of the selected image file, and modifies the copy, renames it to conform to the special naming standard for that Tool, changes it to a .png format, and saves it in the special Tool subdirectory calibre\...\plugins\tagbrowser_icons.

The above process is fundamental and essential to the design of the tool. Obviously intentional. Zero chance of being "changed".



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[ownedbycats]

Here is D:\Documents\view.png before and after assigning it with tag browser icons.

If it's meant to copy it before the resize, it's not doing that.

[DaltonST]

The Tool resizes any sized image into a 128x128 pixel .png file, just like standard Calibre uses. See the attached Calibre example.

The Tool resizes the final copied image, and not the original.

I just re-tested that on Calibre Desktop under Windows 11. My original image is a huge portrait, and was not changed after it was selected within the Tool to be assigned. Just as intended.




DaltonST

[ownedbycats]

Doing it on that file doesn't give the same results because a) Applications run at user-level are restricted from write/modify actions in Program Files and b) Calibre has all its files set to read-only.



When I tried, ProcMon shows Calibre attempting a CreateFile operation and getting 'ACCESS DENIED' result. But on a non-readonly file, the CreateFile is successful:

[ownedbycats]

I get this error when using the option to create a search from the book IDs. (The search is created, though.)

calibre, version 6.10.0
ERROR: Unhandled error: Failed to read book data from calibre library. Click "Show details" for more information

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Documents\git\calibre\src\calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 624, in current_changed
  File "D:\Documents\git\calibre\src\calibre\gui2\library\models.py", line 606, in get_book_display_info
  File "D:\Documents\git\calibre\src\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 693, in get_metadata
  File "D:\Documents\git\calibre\src\calibre\db\view.py", line 226, in index_to_id
IndexError: tuple index out of range

Is this a JS or Calibre issue?

[DaltonST]

Run in DEBUG mode to answer your question.

Note that selecting more than a a couple of hundred IDs at one time can cause a recursion error in Calibre. I think that is documented in the DEBUG output and somewhere in the JS thread. Nothing can be done about that.

[ownedbycats]

I also got the error with calibre:// urls, so I reported it as a Calibre issue.

[DaltonST]

Attached is a Beta Test version for a new GUI Tool that can be used as a front-end between Zotero and Calibre for Zotero .ris export files containing more than one (1) set of RIS Tags. Example: one for all of your Items.

You must change your configuration of the Extract RIS Citation plugin as shown in an attached image.

Pay careful attention to the image regarding Calibre's Auto-Add Preferences.


Added: see: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...0&postcount=16

Added: Zotero's exported RIS file has no T1 Tag like 'normal' RIS files downloaded from most DOI academic sites, only a TI Tag. So, the Title in Calibre per the Extract RIS Citations plugin configuration becomes the Auto-Add file name, which is based on the number of seconds since 1970, with a suffix, to make each file name unique in the Auto-Add folder.. So, Beta3 of the new JS tool automatically creates a T1 if there is only a TI, and vice-versa. If a .ris has both, then it does nothing. The special numeric .ris file name is never used now for Title in Calibre, since that was the default name that is no longer needed.



DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.200 -2023-01-22 New GUI Tool: "RIS Citation File: Split Each RIS Tag Set into a Single RIS File". Use in conjunction with the plugin 'Extract RIS Citations'.

This new GUI Tool is used with the "Extract RIS Citation" file-type plugin.


DaltonST

[DaltonST]

A new GUI Tool, "RIS Tags: Create Individual Custom Columns", is available in the Utility submenu of JobSpy in the attached .zip file.

See the images below.

Also see companion post: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=25


The new GUI Tool will also automatically change your Preferences file for your installed "Extract RIS Citations" file-type plugin. An example of the newly remapped Tags to Target custom columns is shown below.

Spoiler:

  "A1": "#ris_first_authors",
  "A2": "#ris_secondary_authors",
  "A3": "#ris_tertiary_authors",
  "A4": "#ris_subsidiary_authors",
  "AB": "#ris_abstract",
  "AD": "#ris_author_address",
  "AN": "#ris_accession_number",
  "AU": "authors",
  "AV": "#ris_location_in_archives",
  "BT": "#ris_secondary_title",
  "C1": "comments",
  "C2": "comments",
  "C3": "comments",
  "C4": "comments",
  "C5": "comments",
  "C6": "comments",
  "C7": "comments",
  "C8": "comments",
  "CA": "#ris_caption",
  "CN": "#ris_call_number",
  "CP": "comments",
  "CT": "#ris_title_of_unpublished_reference",
  "CY": "#ris_place_published",
  "DA": "#ris_date",
  "DB": "#ris_name_of_database",
  "DO": "#ris_doi",
  "DP": "#ris_database_provider",
  "ED": "#ris_editor",
  "EP": "#ris_end_page",
  "ER": "#ris_end_of_reference",
  "ET": "#ris_edition",
  "ID": "#ris_reference_id",
  "IS": "#ris_issue_number",
  "J1": "#ris_periodical_name_user_abbreviation",
  "J2": "#ris_alternate_title",
  "JA": "#ris_journal_periodical_name_abbreviation",
  "JF": "#ris_journal_periodical_name_full",
  "JO": "#ris_journal_name",
  "KW": "#ris_keywords",
  "L1": "comments",
  "L2": "comments",
  "L3": "comments",
  "L4": "comments",
  "LA": "languages",
  "LB": "#ris_label",
  "LK": "#ris_website_link",
  "M1": "#ris_note",
  "M2": "#ris_miscellaneous",
  "M3": "#ris_type_of_work",
  "N1": "#ris_notes",
  "N2": "#ris_notes_abstract",
  "NV": "#ris_number_of_volumes",
  "OP": "#ris_original_publication",
  "PB": "publisher",
  "PP": "#ris_publishing_place",
  "PY": "pubdate",
  "RI": "#ris_reviewed_item",
  "RN": "#ris_research_notes",
  "RP": "#ris_reprint_edition",
  "SE": "#ris_section",
  "SN": "identifiers",
  "SP": "#ris_start_page",
  "ST": "#ris_short_title",
  "T1": "title",
  "T2": "#ris_secondary_title",
  "T3": "#ris_tertiary_title",
  "TA": "#ris_translated_author",
  "TI": "comments",
  "TT": "#ris_translated_title",
  "TY": "#ris_type_of_reference",
  "U1": "comments",
  "U2": "comments",
  "U3": "comments",
  "U4": "comments",
  "U5": "comments",
  "UK": "comments",
  "UR": "#ris_url",
  "VL": "#ris_volume",
  "VO": "#ris_published_standard_number",
  "Y1": "#ris_publication_year",
  "Y2": "#ris_access_date"

DaltonST

[DaltonST]

A new beta test version, 4, has been posted in the prior post along with new images relating to the new GUI Tool, "RIS Tags: Create Individual Custom Columns".

Major new feature: a selection dialog within which you may select/deselect any new RIS custom column choices so you do not have to create all 55 of the possible Tag-to-Custom Column mappings. The default for missing custom columns is the standard Calibre "Comments" column, so their values will go there if they have no specific target to go to.


see: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=24


DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.201 -2023-01-30 New GUI Tool: "RIS Tags: Create Individual Custom Columns". That is the 70th.

If you use Zotero, you should also be using Job Spy for at least the 2 GUI Tools for RIS Citation files, plus of course the "Extract RIS Citations" (ERC) file-type plugin and the Zotero Metadata Importer (ZMI) GUI plugin. See their threads for recent posts that are companions to this post.


js: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...5&postcount=23


erc: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...9&postcount=17



DaltonST

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.202 -2023-01-31 New JS+:GUI Tool: RIS Citation Format: Copy '#ris_...' Custom Columns to Related ZMI Format's '#ris_...' Custom Columns"

See the attached image to explain what and how it does.

Note the JS GUI Tool comment directed towards Zotero and ZMI plugin users who should likely be using the Extract RIS Citation plugin.


DaltonST

[ownedbycats]

Tag browser icons & user categories: Does the restriction for hierarchical items also apply to user categories?

Adding an item with an assigned icon to a user category usually carries over the icon:



But not if I add it to a subcategory:

[DaltonST]

Version 1.0.203 -2023-02-03 New GUI Tool: All Selected Books: Copy '#ris_...' Metadata to Related PDF/TXT/EPUB Book. It also copies the source RIS file as a new format for the target real book.

See the attached image.

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