Ereader2Html - Page 9

wallcraft · 11-16-2009, 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shrktank

where can I download and find the ereader2html.py?

The best place to start looking is the comments to the Dark Reverser's weblog. You want a recent version, so start from the end and work backwards. The most recent stable version is 0.07.

Scripts from pastebin download as .txt which needs to be renamed .py.

FizzyWater · 11-23-2009, 11:23 PM

My suggestion would be to keep your older versions as well. I have books the version 8/9 crash on that I have to run on the 3/4 versions.

KevinH · 11-24-2009, 11:01 AM

Regarding the crashes of the newer versions:

Do you think you could try the very latest erdr2pml.py and let people know if it still crashes as well. There were a number of fixes in 0.08 and 0.09 that only work for newer type books that might not have been properly protected from being invoked when used on the older books.

That have been fixed I am told but ... you never know.

delphidb96 · 11-24-2009, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

Regarding the crashes of the newer versions:

Do you think you could try the very latest erdr2pml.py and let people know if it still crashes as well. There were a number of fixes in 0.08 and 0.09 that only work for newer type books that might not have been properly protected from being invoked when used on the older books.

That have been fixed I am told but ... you never know.

There's an erdr2pml.py??? And you're saying there's a v0.08 and v0.09 ereader2html.py? Wow! I am *SO* behind the times!

Derek

kennyc · 11-24-2009, 01:34 PM

I found a 0.9 at the usual place, not a .8 though

Have not tried it yet.

FizzyWater · 11-25-2009, 05:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

Regarding the crashes of the newer versions:

Do you think you could try the very latest erdr2pml.py and let people know if it still crashes as well. There were a number of fixes in 0.08 and 0.09 that only work for newer type books that might not have been properly protected from being invoked when used on the older books.

That have been fixed I am told but ... you never know.

I'm willing to run the erdr2pml.py if I can find it on a non-torrent site. I don't do torrents. I can't read PML, though, so all I could tell you is if I got errors.

EDIT: Is this a part of Calibre 0.6? I still can't run that on my computer.

KevinH · 11-27-2009, 04:25 PM

Search for "Dark Reversers Blog" and read it (near the end) to fid links (non-torrent).

KevinH

=X= · 11-30-2009, 07:12 PM

Line

Code:

imagedir = "images/"

needs to be changed with

Code:

imagedir = bookname + "_img/"

to work with dropbook

macr0t0r · 12-02-2009, 01:42 PM

Hmmm....is there a reason that erdr2pml.py changes the footnotes to links? Also, what use are the chapters and links files? I don't believe that DropBook uses them.

As best as I can tell, erdr2pml.py seems mainly to support conversion to HTML rather than to recreate the original PML architecture. I've created a custom version, but as a USA citizen

, I have little desire to even post in DarkReverser's blog.

- Jim

pdurrant · 12-02-2009, 01:55 PM

As far as I can see you're right - the footnotes and sidebars have been converted to links to make the conversion to hTML simpler. As you say - it's easy enough to tweak the code to make them footnotes and sidebars again.

If you're on a Mac, there's another step that needs to be done. The Mac version of DropBook assumes the PML file is in Mac OS Roman encoding, whle internally, all ereader files use Windows Latin-1 encoding, so on a Mac it's important to re-encode the pml file before using DropBook.

Quote:

Originally Posted by macr0t0r

Hmmm....is there a reason that erdr2pml.py changes the footnotes to links? Also, what use are the chapters and links files? I don't believe that DropBook uses them.

As best as I can tell, erdr2pml.py seems mainly to support conversion to HTML rather than to recreate the original PML architecture. I've created a custom version, but as a USA citizen

, I have little desire to even post in DarkReverser's blog.

- Jim

macr0t0r · 12-02-2009, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

If you're on a Mac, there's another step that needs to be done. The Mac version of DropBook assumes the PML file is in Mac OS Roman encoding, whle internally, all ereader files use Windows Latin-1 encoding, so on a Mac it's important to re-encode the pml file before using DropBook.

I've been getting around that by explicitly coding the high-ascii characters:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=53

- Jim

pdurrant · 12-02-2009, 02:36 PM

Now that's a very clever idea. And it'll handle those few irritating characters that are in Windows Latin-1 but not in Mac OS Roman. Thanks!

Quote:

Originally Posted by macr0t0r

I've been getting around that by explicitly coding the high-ascii characters:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...5&postcount=53

KevinH · 12-02-2009, 03:29 PM

Hi,

Actually erdr2pml.py does no html conversion at all. It just has the capability to unpack the **all** of the sections in the .pdb file. All of these extras can be discarded since they are actually recreated by Dropbook when dropping the pml file on. Most have already been commented out. So you can safely comment out chapters.txt and the link information too if you so desire.

As for the footnotes and sidebars, they are converted to pml markup and not xml code. Unless something has changed Dropbook did not handle either sidebars or footnotes done via xml properly? Has that changed? If so, then then the comments in the code can easily be used to put in the xml code for Dropbook.

Your change to clean up high chars in file for Mac OS is quite useful. Thanks.

It is too bad this damn thing can't be properly hosted and developed just like any other piece of open source software.

Oh well.

KevinH

pdurrant · 12-02-2009, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinH

As for the footnotes and sidebars, they are converted to pml markup and not xml code. Unless something has changed Dropbook did not handle either sidebars or footnotes done via xml properly? Has that changed? If so, then then the comments in the code can easily be used to put in the xml code for Dropbook.

Oh - I didn't know that might be a problem. I'll have to experiment sometime and see. Thanks.

macr0t0r · 12-02-2009, 04:29 PM

DropBook handles the pseudo-XML markup for footnotes and sidebars perfectly. I do it all the time with my modified script. The problem was in the python converter:

Code:

smarker = '<sidebar id="sidebar-%s">\n'

This should be:

Code:

smarker = '<sidebar id="%s">\n'

Currently, the code has that stuff commented out and is doing this:

Code:

marker='\\t\\Q="sidebar-%s"' % id

Which is essentially turning a sidebar (or footnote) reference into a Link target. Very undesirable for Calibre since the updated PDB converter properly converts PML footnotes into ePub endnotes.

I'm at a crossroad on if I really want to contribute to the ereader "cleaning" project that DarkReverser has going. I like the eReader format for it's simplicity, semi-friendly DRM restrictions, and large device support. The last time a format was thoroughly defeated, it was dumped by the Publishers (Microsoft LIT). I'd prefer that didn't happen to the eReader format.

- Jim

11-24-2009, 11:01 AM	#123
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,765 Karma: 6000000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Re: Crashes Regarding the crashes of the newer versions: Do you think you could try the very latest erdr2pml.py and let people know if it still crashes as well. There were a number of fixes in 0.08 and 0.09 that only work for newer type books that might not have been properly protected from being invoked when used on the older books. That have been fixed I am told but ... you never know.

11-30-2009, 07:12 PM	#128
=X= Wizard Posts: 3,671 Karma: 12205348 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: Galaxy S, Nook w/CM7	Line Code: imagedir = "images/" needs to be changed with Code: imagedir = bookname + "_img/" to work with dropbook

12-02-2009, 01:42 PM	#129
macr0t0r Connoisseur Posts: 91 Karma: 108 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Palm Treo 680, Sony Reader	Hmmm....is there a reason that erdr2pml.py changes the footnotes to links? Also, what use are the chapters and links files? I don't believe that DropBook uses them. As best as I can tell, erdr2pml.py seems mainly to support conversion to HTML rather than to recreate the original PML architecture. I've created a custom version, but as a USA citizen, I have little desire to even post in DarkReverser's blog. - Jim

12-02-2009, 03:29 PM	#133
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,765 Karma: 6000000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	erdr2pml.py Hi, Actually erdr2pml.py does no html conversion at all. It just has the capability to unpack the all of the sections in the .pdb file. All of these extras can be discarded since they are actually recreated by Dropbook when dropping the pml file on. Most have already been commented out. So you can safely comment out chapters.txt and the link information too if you so desire. As for the footnotes and sidebars, they are converted to pml markup and not xml code. Unless something has changed Dropbook did not handle either sidebars or footnotes done via xml properly? Has that changed? If so, then then the comments in the code can easily be used to put in the xml code for Dropbook. Your change to clean up high chars in file for Mac OS is quite useful. Thanks. It is too bad this damn thing can't be properly hosted and developed just like any other piece of open source software. Oh well. KevinH

12-02-2009, 04:29 PM	#135
macr0t0r Connoisseur Posts: 91 Karma: 108 Join Date: Jan 2008 Device: Palm Treo 680, Sony Reader	DropBook handles the pseudo-XML markup for footnotes and sidebars perfectly. I do it all the time with my modified script. The problem was in the python converter: Code: smarker = '<sidebar id="sidebar-%s">\n' This should be: Code: smarker = '<sidebar id="%s">\n' Currently, the code has that stuff commented out and is doing this: Code: marker='\\t\\Q="sidebar-%s"' % id Which is essentially turning a sidebar (or footnote) reference into a Link target. Very undesirable for Calibre since the updated PDB converter properly converts PML footnotes into ePub endnotes. I'm at a crossroad on if I really want to contribute to the ereader "cleaning" project that DarkReverser has going. I like the eReader format for it's simplicity, semi-friendly DRM restrictions, and large device support. The last time a format was thoroughly defeated, it was dumped by the Publishers (Microsoft LIT). I'd prefer that didn't happen to the eReader format. - Jim

11-23-2009, 11:23 PM	#122
FizzyWater You kids get off my lawn! Posts: 4,220 Karma: 73492664 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Columbus, Ohio Device: Oasis 2 and Libra H2O and half a dozen older models I can't let go of	My suggestion would be to keep your older versions as well. I have books the version 8/9 crash on that I have to run on the 3/4 versions.

11-24-2009, 01:34 PM	#125
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,898 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	I found a 0.9 at the usual place, not a .8 though Have not tried it yet.

11-27-2009, 04:25 PM	#127
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,765 Karma: 6000000 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Search for "Dark Reversers Blog" and read it (near the end) to fid links (non-torrent). KevinH

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