Bulk epub to docx margins settings ignored

[rmd2000ro]

Hi,

I am trying to do a bulk conversion from EPUB to DOCX. Conversion works fine but margins new settings (10p) are ignored and the defaults (72p) are used.

When doing this individually it works fine and I am getting the new page margins.

This is happening with any epub files to be converted, I have tried with 200 epub files, so the problem is not related to the source file (as if I use individually conversion anyone of them works fine with new margins).

Here is the log from one of the conversion:

Spoiler:

Convert book 4 of 6 (Rugaciunea Mamei)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.58.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'justify',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'C:\\Users\\mario\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ nmrpmv\\vw1v2z.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'docx_custom_page_size': None,
'docx_no_cover': True,
'docx_no_toc': True,
'docx_page_size': u'a5',
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': u'Bookman Old Style',
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u'margin-right,margin-top,,margin-left,margin,margin-bottom',
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': u'12',
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x0000000004FB3588>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 72.0,
'margin_left': 72.0,
'margin_right': 72.0,
'margin_top': 72.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 0,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.GenericEink object at 0x0000000004FB3908>,
'page_breaks_before': '/',
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\mario\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ nmrpmv\\azyigs.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': False,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 0,
'transform_css_rules': '[]',
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running
on C:\Users\mario\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_nmrpmv\3 steyt.epub
Parsing all content...
Parsing Ops/style.css ...
Parsing Ops/001.html ...
Reading TOC from NCX...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Filtering CSS properties: , margin, margin-bottom, margin-right, margin-left, margin-top
Embedding font: Bookman Old Style
Source base font size is 13.08000pt
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Creating DOCX Output...
Rasterizing SVG images...
Processing Ops/001.html
0 Text Styles 3 Combined styles
DOCX output written to C:\Users\mario\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_nmrpmv\0 ccdwp.docx

I have attached the epub file.

Changes from default:
text: justified
font family: bookman old style
font size: 12
output profile: generic e-ink
input profile: default input profile
margins: 10p
DOCX options: paper size A5


I have here also the log for indidually conversion where 10p margins are all right:
Convert book 1 of 1 (Rugaciunea Mamei)
Resolved conversion options
calibre version: 2.58.0
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'change_justification': u'justify',
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|pr ologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': u'C:\\Users\\mario\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ nmrpmv\\9tgupo.jpeg',
'debug_pipeline': None,
'dehyphenate': True,
'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'docx_custom_page_size': None,
'docx_no_cover': True,
'docx_no_toc': True,
'docx_page_size': u'a5',
'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,
'embed_all_fonts': False,
'embed_font_family': u'Bookman Old Style',
'enable_heuristics': False,
'expand_css': False,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'filter_css': u'margin-right,margin-top,,margin-left,margin,margin-bottom',
'fix_indents': True,
'font_size_mapping': u'12',
'format_scene_breaks': True,
'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x0000000004FDB588>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_blank_line_size': 0.5,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'italicize_common_cases': True,
'keep_ligatures': False,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 10.0,
'margin_left': 10.0,
'margin_right': 10.0,
'margin_top': 10.0,
'markup_chapter_headings': True,
'max_toc_links': 0,
'minimum_line_height': 120.0,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.GenericEink object at 0x0000000004FDB908>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'pretty_print': False,
'pubdate': None,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\mario\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_ nmrpmv\\e7nmd9.opf',
'remove_fake_margins': False,
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'renumber_headings': True,
'replace_scene_breaks': u'',
'search_replace': '[]',
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'smarten_punctuation': False,
'sr1_replace': None,
'sr1_search': None,
'sr2_replace': None,
'sr2_search': None,
'sr3_replace': None,
'sr3_search': None,
'start_reading_at': None,
'subset_embedded_fonts': False,
'tags': None,
'timestamp': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 0,
'transform_css_rules': '[]',
'unsmarten_punctuation': False,
'unwrap_lines': True,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: EPUB Input running
on C:\Users\mario\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_nmrpmv\t r0pcm.epub
Parsing all content...
Parsing Ops/001.html ...
Parsing Ops/style.css ...
Reading TOC from NCX...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Filtering CSS properties: , margin-right, margin-top, margin-left, margin, margin-bottom
Embedding font: Bookman Old Style
Source base font size is 13.08000pt
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Creating DOCX Output...
Rasterizing SVG images...
Processing Ops/001.html
0 Text Styles 3 Combined styles
DOCX output written to C:\Users\mario\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_nmrpmv\w ylqi0.docx

Thank you,
Mario

[rmd2000ro]

Also to mention that I have tried bulk conversion and disable "saved settings for invidually books" also.

[rmd2000ro]

I have also tried new epub books that have never been converted individually. Thank you!

[kovidgoyal]

Yes, that is because the DOCX output plugin whatever the default setting is. Use the setting in the Bulk conversion dialog itself to force it.

[rmd2000ro]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes, that is because the DOCX output plugin whatever the default setting is. Use the setting in the Bulk conversion dialog itself to force it.

That's exactly what I am doing in the bulk settings forcing it to 10p margins, please see the jpg attachement. However it is ignoring it, please see one of the docx output.

I would not insist so much for few files but I will have probably arounf 1000 to convert.



Thank you,
Mario

[kovidgoyal]

In that case you are out of luck -- the only way to do it is via individual conversions, sorry.

[kovidgoyal]

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...ce30a4220977bd