Weird conversion failure

[franx]

Folks,

Calibre works great, no hitches, on my XP Windows machine.

But on my Mac PowerPC, running Leopard OSX, I get the following type of failure notice, no matter what the file:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (Soldier's Prayer)

Convert book 1 of 1 (Soldier's Prayer)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 0.7.0
{'asciiize': True,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 12.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'original',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': u'/Users/franx2/Desktop/Debug calibre',
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_compress': False,
'extra_css': None,
'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.InputProfile object at 0x6304af0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'keep_ligatures': True,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': True,
'no_inline_toc': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x6304dd0>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'personal_doc': u'[PDOC]',
'prefer_author_sort': False,
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': '/var/folders/VJ/VJQTFWGQFtqpA9eb997HUk+++TI/-Tmp-/calibre_0.7.0_p4qRUv.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': False,
'remove_header': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'rescale_images': False,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'toc_title': None,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
Python function terminated unexpectedly: This RTF file has a feature calibre does not support. Convert it to HTML first and then try it.
no map found
map is "ansicpg10000"

InputFormatPlugin: RTF Input running
on /Users/franx2/Calibre Library/Unknown/Soldier's Prayer (7)/Soldier's Prayer - Unknown.rtf
Converting RTF to XML...
Preprocessing to convert unicode characters
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 808, in run
File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 211, in __call__
File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/rtf/input.py", line 200, in convert
ValueError: This RTF file has a feature calibre does not support. Convert it to HTML first and then try it.
no map found
map is "ansicpg10000"

Any idea what's going wrong?

[kovidgoyal]

Follow the instructions at the bottom of the error message, i.e. convert your rtf to html and then convert the html in calibre.

[franx]

Thanks! That did it.