LRF output - Page 57

red_five · 06-09-2009, 12:29 AM

I'm having this very problem, only it's with the books of the Bible. I have each book in a separate HTML file, with a TOC file, and I only get Genesis. When I had each chapter of each book in a separate HTML file, I would only get Genesis chapter 1. I just opened a separate topic, and then I found this portion of the LRF output thread. oops.

red_five · 06-09-2009, 12:40 AM

Maybe this'll help. I just tried to convert the HTML Bible to ePub, and it worked. Then I converted the ePub to LRF, and that worked as well. I did it on a subset of 3 books to make it quick. Now to do it for the full Bible.

dordale · 06-10-2009, 01:09 AM

red_five--

Just wanted to let you know (in case you don't know already) that the King James version of the bible is available for download from this site in both ePub and LRF formats. Both are very nicely formatted IMO.

dordale

krischik · 09-19-2009, 03:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Considering that this is an Open Source application NO ONE is "entitled" to anything.

Actually it's more like because it's gratis Software.

There is also commercial (non gratis) OpenSource (parts of Mac OS X as a well known example) and customers who spend hard earned €$¥£ on commercial OpenSource are just ans entitled to service as those who spend there money on closed source software.

Actually I sell open source software myself and my customers can expect service and bug fixes.

Martin

Seventh Son · 09-23-2009, 01:54 PM

When converting from ePub font-variant: small-caps; is not preserved. Any other way to have small caps in LRF? I'm pretty sure it supports them, since Sony books have them.

kovidgoyal · 09-24-2009, 03:04 PM

The HTML code to do that is demonstrated in

http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/html-demo.zip

Seventh Son · 09-24-2009, 03:34 PM

Looked at your sample. So why doesn't font-variant: small-caps work for me with latest calibre?

john folkard · 09-29-2009, 08:43 AM

My machine will not let me on your site as it says that your certificate is self-signed - any ideas how to get round this (alt sites etc)

Seventh Son · 09-29-2009, 09:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by john folkard

My machine will not let me on your site as it says that your certificate is self-signed - any ideas how to get round this (alt sites etc)

Can't you ignore that warning in a browser? If for some reason you can't (like blocked by admin at work), try another computer and browser.

john folkard · 10-02-2009, 04:21 AM

I have just "upgraded" Calibre to 0.6.1.6. The whole book is now in Times Roman italic except where <strong> has been used which is now Times Roman (upright) It has also ignored Trebruchet font. Version 0.5. whatever worked perfectly well. All font calls are via css file.
I upgraded because I had a number of "lost lines" at the end of para's which I hoped would be cured.

HEC · 10-19-2009, 09:04 AM

Hi.

First of all - THANKS for a great product. It's usefull once you'll reach a certain limit of books to manage them all both on your PC as well as in your reader.

Now to my problem I have - I've used calibre (0.6.17 but upgraded today to 06.18) to test 20 News Feeds over 3 days (in total 59 news, 1 was just for 2 days) with a bit mixed up results for me newly aquired PRS-505.

Calibre is all set to defaults with output to Sony Reader (LRF) and it's mamanging my collections just fine. However - 9 of 20 News feeds fail to open on my reader and always cause it to reboot - I've tried putting them to internal memorry as well as to both cards (MS & SD) with the same result. They'll indeed open fine within the Calibre itself. My Reader is customized with PRS Customizer 1.04 (UK Version) with custom Fonts, Icons, Languages, Logo, to display time, Personal details and to shutdown via Enter button but I don't think this is causing the problems as hundreds of other and much larger (in file size) books works just fine.

See bellow a full list of all 20 feeds together with file size and page count and indications which are failing. They're all from October 18 (automatic batch at midnight). In general - LARGER (in file size) News books tend to fail with only exception of Telegraph.co.uk (4.9 MB) wich seems to work just fine despite it's larger file size. All the Fetch News Recepies were used as supplied by default.

NAME - File size in MB - Pages - Working Yes / No
***************************************
CNN - 1.8 - 430 - NO
darknet - 0.1 - 38 - Yes
Fudzilla - 0.9 - 378 - NO
Glasgow Herald - 0.0 (it fails to actually READ the feed) - 6 - Yes (It's empty though)
London Review of Books - 0.2 - 166 - Yes
NASA - 0.3 - 272 - Yes
New Scientist - 1.3 - 701 - NO
Newsweek - 0.5 - 149 - Yes
ScienceDaily - 0.3 - 208 - Yes
securitywatch - 0.1 - 40 - Yes
Slashdot.org - 7.5 - 3,672 - NO
Telegraph.co.uk - 4.9 - 744 - Yes
The BBC - 8.9 - 2,285 - NO
The Daily Mail - 13.6 - 1,539 - NO
The Guardian - 2.9 - 494 - NO
The Scotsman - 0.5 - 379 - Yes
USA Today - 1.1 - 521 - NO
Wikinews - 0.2 - 94 -Yes
Wired.com - 5.2 - 629 - NO
zdnet - 0.2 - 50 - Yes

So - in general the large files with more pages tends to fail to load / cause the reader to Reboot (with above mentioned exception of Telegraph). Any advice? Thanks.

acidzebra · 10-19-2009, 09:06 AM

Try using epub output, I've had far better success with feeds that way.

HEC · 10-19-2009, 10:45 AM

Yeah - was thinking about using epub. It's just that I prefer LRF (size and paragraph jsutification) but I guess it's not that much important for News feeds anyway. Will try that now and report back.

HEC · 10-21-2009, 07:56 AM

Just to update on my previous post - epub NEws seems to work fine so far.

bcumyns · 10-23-2009, 07:53 AM

The developer has stated that there is a problem in the Sony firmware that prevents News feeds from displaying in LRF properly. Use ePub.

09-24-2009, 03:34 PM	#847
Seventh Son lurker Posts: 123 Karma: 356 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: EU Device: I should probably stop	Looked at your sample. So why doesn't font-variant: small-caps work for me with latest calibre? Last edited by Seventh Son; 09-24-2009 at 03:37 PM.

10-19-2009, 09:04 AM	#851
HEC Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: PRS-505	Problem with some News Feeds ... Hi. First of all - THANKS for a great product. It's usefull once you'll reach a certain limit of books to manage them all both on your PC as well as in your reader. Now to my problem I have - I've used calibre (0.6.17 but upgraded today to 06.18) to test 20 News Feeds over 3 days (in total 59 news, 1 was just for 2 days) with a bit mixed up results for me newly aquired PRS-505. Calibre is all set to defaults with output to Sony Reader (LRF) and it's mamanging my collections just fine. However - 9 of 20 News feeds fail to open on my reader and always cause it to reboot - I've tried putting them to internal memorry as well as to both cards (MS & SD) with the same result. They'll indeed open fine within the Calibre itself. My Reader is customized with PRS Customizer 1.04 (UK Version) with custom Fonts, Icons, Languages, Logo, to display time, Personal details and to shutdown via Enter button but I don't think this is causing the problems as hundreds of other and much larger (in file size) books works just fine. See bellow a full list of all 20 feeds together with file size and page count and indications which are failing. They're all from October 18 (automatic batch at midnight). In general - LARGER (in file size) News books tend to fail with only exception of Telegraph.co.uk (4.9 MB) wich seems to work just fine despite it's larger file size. All the Fetch News Recepies were used as supplied by default. NAME - File size in MB - Pages - Working Yes / No *************************************** CNN - 1.8 - 430 - NO darknet - 0.1 - 38 - Yes Fudzilla - 0.9 - 378 - NO Glasgow Herald - 0.0 (it fails to actually READ the feed) - 6 - Yes (It's empty though) London Review of Books - 0.2 - 166 - Yes NASA - 0.3 - 272 - Yes New Scientist - 1.3 - 701 - NO Newsweek - 0.5 - 149 - Yes ScienceDaily - 0.3 - 208 - Yes securitywatch - 0.1 - 40 - Yes Slashdot.org - 7.5 - 3,672 - NO Telegraph.co.uk - 4.9 - 744 - Yes The BBC - 8.9 - 2,285 - NO The Daily Mail - 13.6 - 1,539 - NO The Guardian - 2.9 - 494 - NO The Scotsman - 0.5 - 379 - Yes USA Today - 1.1 - 521 - NO Wikinews - 0.2 - 94 -Yes Wired.com - 5.2 - 629 - NO zdnet - 0.2 - 50 - Yes So - in general the large files with more pages tends to fail to load / cause the reader to Reboot (with above mentioned exception of Telegraph). Any advice? Thanks. Last edited by HEC; 10-19-2009 at 09:07 AM.

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06-09-2009, 12:29 AM	#841
red_five Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony PRS-700	I'm having this very problem, only it's with the books of the Bible. I have each book in a separate HTML file, with a TOC file, and I only get Genesis. When I had each chapter of each book in a separate HTML file, I would only get Genesis chapter 1. I just opened a separate topic, and then I found this portion of the LRF output thread. oops.

06-09-2009, 12:40 AM	#842
red_five Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony PRS-700	Maybe this'll help. I just tried to convert the HTML Bible to ePub, and it worked. Then I converted the ePub to LRF, and that worked as well. I did it on a subset of 3 books to make it quick. Now to do it for the full Bible.

06-10-2009, 01:09 AM	#843
dordale Wizard Posts: 1,731 Karma: 3472866 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony PRS-650 & 350; Kindle Voyage; Kobo Aura HD, Aura One, and Forma	red_five-- Just wanted to let you know (in case you don't know already) that the King James version of the bible is available for download from this site in both ePub and LRF formats. Both are very nicely formatted IMO. dordale

09-23-2009, 01:54 PM	#845
Seventh Son lurker Posts: 123 Karma: 356 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: EU Device: I should probably stop	When converting from ePub font-variant: small-caps; is not preserved. Any other way to have small caps in LRF? I'm pretty sure it supports them, since Sony books have them.

09-24-2009, 03:04 PM	#846
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,857 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	The HTML code to do that is demonstrated in http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/downloads/html-demo.zip

09-29-2009, 08:43 AM	#848
john folkard Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: PRS505	My machine will not let me on your site as it says that your certificate is self-signed - any ideas how to get round this (alt sites etc)

10-02-2009, 04:21 AM	#850
john folkard Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: PRS505	I have just "upgraded" Calibre to 0.6.1.6. The whole book is now in Times Roman italic except where <strong> has been used which is now Times Roman (upright) It has also ignored Trebruchet font. Version 0.5. whatever worked perfectly well. All font calls are via css file. I upgraded because I had a number of "lost lines" at the end of para's which I hoped would be cured.

10-19-2009, 09:06 AM	#852
acidzebra Liseuse Lover Posts: 869 Karma: 1035404 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Netherlands Device: PRS-505	Try using epub output, I've had far better success with feeds that way.

10-19-2009, 10:45 AM	#853
HEC Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: PRS-505	Yeah - was thinking about using epub. It's just that I prefer LRF (size and paragraph jsutification) but I guess it's not that much important for News feeds anyway. Will try that now and report back.

10-21-2009, 07:56 AM	#854
HEC Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2009 Device: PRS-505	Just to update on my previous post - epub NEws seems to work fine so far.

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10-23-2009, 07:53 AM	#855
bcumyns Member Posts: 12 Karma: 276964 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: North Carolina Device: Sony 300	The developer has stated that there is a problem in the Sony firmware that prevents News feeds from displaying in LRF properly. Use ePub.