01-28-2015, 07:07 AM | #1 |
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Convert Books
Has any thought been given to making the Calibre "Convert Books" available in Sigil?
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01-28-2015, 09:35 AM | #2 | |
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For your daily releases you could also use a batch file to generate .azw3 and .lrf files. Code:
DEL conversion.log FOR %%f IN ("*.epub") DO ( "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\ebook-convert.exe" "%%f" "%%~nf.azw3" >> conversion.log "C:\Program Files\Calibre2\ebook-convert.exe" "%%f" "%%~nf.lrf" >> conversion.log ) Then copy the .bat file to the folder that contains the epub file(s) and double-click the batch file. (Obviously, this will only work if C:\Program Files\Calibre2\ebook-convert.exe exists; if you've installed Calibre in a different location, you'll need to adjust the file path.) |
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01-28-2015, 10:40 AM | #3 |
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Or simply use ebook-convert.exe, since calibre installs itself to the system %PATH%
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01-28-2015, 10:59 AM | #4 | |
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(or does it modify the ℅PATH% too?) |
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01-28-2015, 11:05 AM | #5 |
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Well, obviously the portable version does not meet the criteria of being installed, thus people can be expected to ask/think critically about the matter.
Whereas any install will be added to the %PATH% regardless of install folder, so skipping the path can only be a net gain over specifying the default. School system here, so calibre is "installed" via a scripted msiexec hack into %USERPROFILE%\PFiles\ and added to user %PATH%. That works too... Last edited by eschwartz; 01-28-2015 at 11:08 AM. |
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01-28-2015, 11:54 AM | #6 |
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While we're critically thinkng, what would most people call that program that I download and run in order to put the portable version of calibre on my PC?
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01-28-2015, 01:52 PM | #7 |
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If they are fooled by the word "installer" and not clued in by the word "portable" (and the fact that the portable instance is being used on another computer), they may be the type who cannot figure out how to edit the batch script even with a Youtube video for directions.
Considering that you have to deliberately use the portable version instead, and have an awkward workflow to use it, you would have sufficient warning that that is not the normal way of things. |
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01-28-2015, 05:40 PM | #9 |
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The path is modified by the installer.msi -- not by calibre.
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01-28-2015, 07:08 PM | #10 |
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But only if the person who built the msi requested the path be modified, and then only if person installing the msi accepts that it be done.
Fast Picture Viewer does a bunch of other things that calibre doesn't do, because they would be meaningless. FPV does not put itself in the path because it would be meaningless, as there are no FPV command line programs. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 01-28-2015 at 07:31 PM. |
01-28-2015, 10:56 PM | #11 |
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I assumed that much was a given. Yes, I am aware that the calibre MSI has been specifically designed to include an option to modify the %PATH%. |
01-29-2015, 01:32 AM | #12 |
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To plagiarise and paraphrase Plato and Aquinas - "A wise man always states his assumptions lest others be led blindly into making the wrong conclusions."
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