Calibre now includes MS LIT converter: lit2lrf

[Excalibur]

any2lrf locks up on me. I put in the command

any2lrf book.lit

and it just sits there. I left it alone at one point and 20 minutes later still hadn't produced any output.

[kovidgoyal]

Huh odd. Works for me. Run it with the --verbose switch.

[Excalibur]

I ran it with the verbose switch and it still locks up.

If it helps any, I've got Windows XP SP2 and I'm using the latest version you had posted, 0.3.39 I think? Don't think anything else would cause issues...

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

I ran it with the verbose switch and it still locks up.

If it helps any, I've got Windows XP SP2 and I'm using the latest version you had posted, 0.3.39 I think? Don't think anything else would cause issues...

Latest version is 0.3.97. Any2lrf seems to blow up.

Processing contents.html
Parsing HTML...
Converting to BBeB...
Processing WorldsofStarTrekDeepSpace.html
Parsing HTML...
Converting to BBeB...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "convert_from.py", line 136, in <module>
File "convert_from.py", line 129, in main
File "convert_from.py", line 107, in process_file
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\lit\convert_from.pyo", line 76, in process_file
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\html\convert_from.pyo", line 1421, in process_file
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\html\convert_from.pyo", line 1329, in writeto
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\pylrs\pylrs.pyo", line 587, in renderLrf
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\pylrs\pylrs.pyo", line 224, in toLrf
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\pylrs\pylrs.pyo", line 220, in toLrfDelegates
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\pylrs\pylrs.pyo", line 2003, in toLrf
File "libprs500\ebooks\lrf\pylrs\pylrs.pyo", line 2024, in toLrf
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'objId'

[JSWolf]

lit2lrf is not working as well...

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "convert_from.py", line 94, in <module>
File "convert_from.py", line 89, in main
File "convert_from.py", line 48, in process_file
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'verbose'

It does work in 0.3.95. I don't have 0.3.96 to try.

[kovidgoyal]

yeah i know it's a typo. Will be fixed in next release. Windows command-line processing leaves a lot to be desired.

[JSWolf]

So unless I need hanging indents, I should be ok with 0.3.95 for now right?

[kovidgoyal]

yeah.

[ZeBuddha]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Put this line in a batch file named, say batch.bat:

for %%f in (*.lit) do lit2lrf --blank-after-para "%%f"

Then, run it in a directory where you want the contents converted. It is not recursive and will only work in one directory. I didn't need it to go to any directories below the main one, but if you want to figure out how to do that, go right ahead

Would

for %%f in (*.*) do any2lrf --blank-after-para "%%f"

work too? Or would it go into an infinite loop in an attempt to convert lrfs to lrfs?

Also, I haven't handled .bats since the days of MS-Dos, so I don't remember if I had to include any kind of separator (eg. semi-colon) between commands. Would a NL/CR do?

I'm basically looking to make a "convert all to LRF" batch script for my incredibly jumbled ebook folders to use with libprs500. So something along the lines of the script line above, one each for lit2lrf, pdf2lrf, rtf2lrf, html2lrf & txt2lrf.

Also, as .doc and .chm formats are not included in libprs500 I'm also looking into apps to convert those to HTML and from there to LRF (which should work as long as the conversion to HTML is before the html2lrf conversion in the script).

I remember seeing a chm2html converter mentioned somewhere but can't find it anymore, and I haven't run into any doc2html or docx2html converters.

[irishjew]

Anyone else get an Error 3 when trying to run the new version of lit2lrf? E.g.,

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Akar>"C:\Program Files\libprs500\lit2lrf.exe" "C:\Docu
ments and Settings\Akar\Desktop\New Folder\Dc99.lit"

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "convert_from.py", line 98, in <module>
File "convert_from.py", line 93, in main
File "convert_from.py", line 56, in process_file
File "convert_from.py", line 45, in generate_html
File "shutil.pyo", line 161, in rmtree
File "shutil.pyo", line 159, in rmtree
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'c:\\docume~1
\\akar\\locals~1\\temp\\libprs500_lwpbcn/*.*'

[JSWolf]

Convertlit 0.3.98 is the version that blew up.

+---[ ConvertLIT (Version 1.8) ]---------------[ Copyright (c) 2002,2003 ]---
ConvertLIT comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
see the COPYING file or visit "http://www.gnu.org/license/gpl.html".
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions. See the GPL license for details.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "convert_from.py", line 98, in <module>
File "convert_from.py", line 93, in main
File "convert_from.py", line 56, in process_file
File "convert_from.py", line 45, in generate_html
File "shutil.pyo", line 161, in rmtree
File "shutil.pyo", line 159, in rmtree
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'c:\\docume~1
\\jon\\locals~1\\temp\\libprs500_348hqk/*.*'

[kovidgoyal]

this is on XP? Because it works for me on vista.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

this is on XP?

I'm running Windows XP Pro. It blew up pretty good I'd say.

[kovidgoyal]

Sigh now i'm going to have to code workarounds for individual windows versions! And that lit file worked with earlier versions of lit2lrf?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Sigh now i'm going to have to code workarounds for individual windows versions! And that lit file worked with earlier versions of lit2lrf?

Yes it did work fine. In fact, Its the book I am in the midst of readin on my reader now. It's fine on the reader. I used Times New Roman and wanted redo it so it used the internal font for faster page turns.