Conversion of comics (CBR/CBZ)

[kovidgoyal]

Use the cbc format (cbc is a collection of comics and you can specify a title for each included comic)

Details are http://calibre-ebook.com/user_manual...ok-collections

[acidburn517]

Awesome! Thanks kovid!

[acidburn517]

Still having problems with the comic book collections. I followed the directions in the link and then selected all the files and created an archive using windows then changed the extension from zip to cbc. When I go to convert in calibre, I get an error saying it failed to convert. I can't really decipher the log to figure out what I did wrong but here's what I get:

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

Convert book 1 of 1 (TheWalkingDead vol 1)
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
 'author_sort': None,
 'authors': None,
 'base_font_size': 0.0,
 'book_producer': None,
 'change_justification': 'left',
 'chapter': None,
 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
 'colors': 256,
 'comments': None,
 'cover': None,
 'debug_pipeline': None,
 'despeckle': False,
 'disable_font_rescaling': True,
 'disable_trim': False,
 'dont_grayscale': False,
 'dont_normalize': False,
 'dont_sharpen': False,
 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': 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>)',
 'input_encoding': None,
 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderInput object at 0x5b45730>,
 'insert_blank_line': False,
 'insert_metadata': False,
 'isbn': None,
 'keep_aspect_ratio': True,
 'landscape': True,
 'language': None,
 'level1_toc': None,
 'level2_toc': None,
 'level3_toc': None,
 'line_height': 0.0,
 'linearize_tables': False,
 'margin_bottom': 0,
 'margin_left': 0,
 'margin_right': 0,
 'margin_top': 0,
 'max_toc_links': 50,
 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
 'no_default_epub_cover': False,
 'no_inline_navbars': False,
 'no_process': False,
 'no_sort': False,
 'no_svg_cover': False,
 'output_format': u'png',
 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderOutput object at 0x5b45990>,
 'page_breaks_before': None,
 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
 'preprocess_html': False,
 'pretty_print': True,
 'pubdate': None,
 'publisher': None,
 'rating': None,
 'read_metadata_from_opf': '/var/folders/Ls/LsBDLa6qHe8XKD7-RCFiuk+++TM/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.52_bXpwdx.opf',
 'remove_first_image': False,
 'remove_footer': False,
 'remove_header': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
 'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
 'right2left': False,
 'series': None,
 'series_index': None,
 'tags': None,
 'timestamp': None,
 'title': None,
 'title_sort': None,
 'toc_filter': None,
 'toc_threshold': 6,
 'use_auto_toc': False,
 'verbose': 2,
 'wide': False}
Python function terminated unexpectedly: ('ascii', u'/var/folders/Ls/LsBDLa6qHe8XKD7-RCFiuk+++TM/-Tmp-/calibre_0.6.52_j7u4WV_comic_collection/\ufeffTheWalkingDead01.cbr', 89, 90, 'ordinal not in range(128)')
InputFormatPlugin: Comic Input running
on /Volumes/General Storage/Calibre Library/Robert kirkman/TheWalkingDead vol 1 (23)/TheWalkingDead vol 1 - Robert kirkman.cbc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.6/site.py", line 147, in main
    return run_entry_point()
  File "/Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Resources/Python/lib/python2.6/site.py", line 116, in run_entry_point
    return getattr(pmod, func)()
  File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 99, 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 794, in run
  File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/comic/input.py", line 412, in convert
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/comic/input.py", line 361, in get_pages
  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/comic/input.py", line 25, in extract_comic
  File "site-packages/calibre/__init__.py", line 199, in extract
  File "site-packages/calibre/libunrar.py", line 171, in extract
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\ufeff' in position 89: ordinal not in range(128)

[kovidgoyal]

The problem is whatever editor you used to create the comics.txt file is writing it in UTF-16 instead of UTF-8

[acidburn517]

Ah. That worked. Thank you again!

[LaoShanLong]

Hi there. I just tried out calibre's .cbc to .epub capabilities and created a great .epub with a TOC for my comic, but there's one problem. A couple pages are out of order.

In one chapter (So far, I'm reading through the rest), page 50 should have been after page 4.

The page was named in a regular scheme that worked for everything else wasn't a split double page. It was, however, directly after a page that was automatically split. The split page (p02-03) is fine, but the following (pg04) is now page 50.

How do I get it back in order? I've opened the epub in Sigil, but the ordering it shows me is even more out of whack.


Each page is named in this scheme:
Ichigo_v01_c##_##.png, where c## is the chapter number and ## is the page number.
The double page is named as this:
Ichigo_v01_c01_02-03.png
The out of order page is named this:
Ichigo_v01_c01_04.png

Help?

[kovidgoyal]

weird, open a ticket and attach your cbc

[LaoShanLong]

Done. .cbc and .epub were both too big to attach, so I uploaded them to mediafire. They're linked in a comment in the ticket.

http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/5595

[zaphod666]

Hmm I have a kind of annoying problem I would really appreciate some help with. I am creating a .cbc file from some downloaded manga and Calibre adds not only the chapter links like I want but it also creates a link for every page in the manga chapter.

I want this:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3

And I get:
Chapter 1
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Etc...more pages
Chapter 2
And so on.

The inside of my .cbc file looks like this:

one_piece_001.cbz
one_piece_002.cbz
one_piece_003.cbz
comics.txt

My comics.txt has this in it:

one_piece_001.cbz:Chapter One
one_piece_002.cbz:Chapter Two
one_piece_003.cbz:Chapter Three

I would really appreciate some help.

[kovidgoyal]

What format are you outputting?

[zaphod666]

Epub format. I was under the impression that the epub format allowed chapter creation. I also tried pdf for the hell of it and I ended up with no chapter links at all. I managed to get the chapters working in epub with a different program but that program does nowhere as good of a job formatting the comics as calibre.

[kovidgoyal]

In epub you will get a hierarchical TOC with the entries from the cbc at the top level and the pages at lower levels.

[zaphod666]

Ah ok thanks for the response. If I don't want the lower level entries can I disable this in the TOC preferences?

[kovidgoyal]

Use the TOC filter option.

[zaphod666]

Great! Thank you for being patient with me and thanks for making such a great program. I will check out the TOC filter option.