Problem converting LIT

AprilHare · 08-08-2009, 06:44 AM

I am having problems converting http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/lit/WasFi01.lit using calibre 0.6.5 under XP SP3.
I have attached error output.

kovidgoyal · 08-08-2009, 01:20 PM

Try exploding it with convertLIT (there seems to be some problem in the LIT file that's preventing calibre from converting it)

JSWolf · 08-08-2009, 02:00 PM

Code:

+---[ 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.
LIT INFORMATION.........
DRM         =  1
Timestamp   =  341e8837
Creator     =  00000031
Language    =  00000409
Writing out "WasFi01" as "WasFi01.html" ...
Error reading file "WasFi01.lit" --
        Attempted to recurse too deeply at position 1228520.
Error reading file "WasFi01.lit" --
        ERROR - Failure during tag expansion of "/data/WasFi01/content" Code: -2!

The HTML came out ok. And so did the OPF. But the rest fo the files were 0 bytes and the CSS is missing.

Code:

        0  Contents.htm
        0  copyright.html
        0  cover.jpg
        0  PCcover.jpg
        0  PCthumb.jpg
        0  thumb.jpg
        0  title.jpg
4,025,474  WasFi01.html
   42,435  WasFi01.opf
        0  ~cov0028.htm

kovidgoyal · 08-08-2009, 05:29 PM

I'm just assigning this to "corrupted file". I could probably fix the LIT converter to generate partial output, but since I didn't write that code,it is too much effort for one file.

AprilHare · 08-08-2009, 09:20 PM

When viewed with M$ software, the document appears fine..
This includes the copyright message. It can't be that corrupted.
It's part of a large e-book collection, if one is like it, dollars to doughnuts you can bet more files will be like it.
It was found here: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/Wlist.html
In the meanwhile, however, the Palm file in this case converts - the output is a little questionable but it works.

08-08-2009, 09:20 PM	#5
AprilHare Wizard Posts: 2,981 Karma: 11862367 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2	When viewed with M$ software, the document appears fine.. This includes the copyright message. It can't be that corrupted. It's part of a large e-book collection, if one is like it, dollars to doughnuts you can bet more files will be like it. It was found here: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/Wlist.html In the meanwhile, however, the Palm file in this case converts - the output is a little questionable but it works. Last edited by AprilHare; 08-08-2009 at 09:58 PM. Reason: moar

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08-08-2009, 01:20 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Try exploding it with convertLIT (there seems to be some problem in the LIT file that's preventing calibre from converting it)

08-08-2009, 05:29 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	I'm just assigning this to "corrupted file". I could probably fix the LIT converter to generate partial output, but since I didn't write that code,it is too much effort for one file.

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