HTML to EPUB?

[SFCurley]

Hi,

I tried to convert an HTML book to ePub using Calibre, but got the following error messages. Any ideas? Thanks in advance:

ERROR: Conversion Error: <b>Failed</b>: Convert book 1 of 1 (Title by Author)

Convert book 1 of 1 (Title by Author)
Processing archive...
Resolved conversion options
{'asciiize': False,
'author_sort': None,
'authors': None,
'base_font_size': 0.0,
'book_producer': None,
'breadth_first': False,
'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., 'chapter|book|section|part\\s+', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",
'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',
'comments': None,
'cover': None,
'debug_pipeline': None,
'disable_font_rescaling': False,
'dont_justify': False,
'dont_package': False,
'dont_split_on_page_breaks': True,
'extra_css': None,
'extract_to': None,
'flow_size': 260,
'font_size_mapping': None,
'footer_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'header_regex': u'(?i)(?<=<hr>)((\\s*<a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?\\d+<br>\\s*.*?\\s*)|(\\s* <a name=\\d+></a>((<img.+?>)*<br>\\s*)?.*?<br>\\s*\\d+))(?=<br>)' ,
'input_encoding': None,
'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x029A61B0>,
'insert_blank_line': False,
'insert_metadata': False,
'isbn': None,
'language': None,
'level1_toc': None,
'level2_toc': None,
'level3_toc': None,
'line_height': 0.0,
'linearize_tables': False,
'margin_bottom': 5.0,
'margin_left': 5.0,
'margin_right': 5.0,
'margin_top': 5.0,
'max_levels': 5,
'max_toc_links': 50,
'no_chapters_in_toc': False,
'no_default_epub_cover': True,
'no_inline_navbars': False,
'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.SonyReaderOutput object at 0x029A6390>,
'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",
'prefer_metadata_cover': False,
'preprocess_html': False,
'pretty_print': True,
'publisher': None,
'rating': None,
'read_metadata_from_opf': 'c:\\docume~1\\userid~1.hom\\locals~1\\temp\\calib re_0.6.36_x0r8wy.opf',
'remove_first_image': False,
'remove_footer': True,
'remove_header': True,
'remove_paragraph_spacing': False,
'remove_paragraph_spacing_indent_size': 1.5,
'series': None,
'series_index': None,
'tags': None,
'title': None,
'title_sort': None,
'toc_filter': None,
'toc_threshold': 6,
'unwrap_factor': 0.0,
'use_auto_toc': False,
'verbose': 2}
InputFormatPlugin: HTML Input running
on c:\docume~1\user~1.hom\locals~1\temp\calibre_0.6.3 6_tqa7mr_plumber\content.opf
Parsing all content...
Manifest item 'toc.ncx' not found
Parsing book.html ...
Parsing style.css ...
Generating default TOC from spine...
Merging user specified metadata...
Detecting structure...
Auto generated TOC with 12 entries.
Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes...
Source base font size is 12.00000pt
Cleaning up manifest...
Trimming unused files from manifest...
Parsing stylesheet.css ...
Creating EPUB Output...
C:\Program Files\Calibre2\Lib\site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\rescale.py: 35: FutureWarning: The behavior of this method will change in future versions. Use specific 'len(elem)' or 'elem is not None' test instead.
Python function terminated unexpectedly
argument 1 of QImage.loadFromData() has an invalid type (Error Code: 1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 103, in main
File "site.py", line 85, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 99, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 24, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 852, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\epub\output.py", line 162, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\rescale.py" , line 19, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\transforms\rescale.py" , line 38, in rescale
TypeError: argument 1 of QImage.loadFromData() has an invalid type

[rmm200]

I would sure search your source for QImage.loadFromData().

Try commenting it out and see what happens.

Robert

[kovidgoyal]

Fixed in next release

[SFCurley]

Hi. I changed the graphics that the original HTML file was referenceing from SVG to JPG and re-ran it, and that seemed to fix the problem.

Thank you for the quick responses.

[neilmarr]

A friend is using Calibre to convert HTML to ePub. He's converting my source files from Word to HTML, doing some layout adjustment in Dreamweaver, then from HTML to ePub, using Calibre. The resulting ePub versions seem to keep all the formatting in place, but for some reason, his Calibre viewer keeps crashing after turning a few pages. I've checked his ePub files on a Sony 505 with no such hitch. Any thoughts? Cheers. Neil

[kovidgoyal]

Ask him to open a ticket and attach the epub file, and I'll take a look. Also I fixed a number of viewer crashing on windows bugs recently, so ask him to upgrade to the latest version.

[neilmarr]

Thanks, Kovid. I've dropped a reminder of this thread (kind of you to chime in) and my pal, Tony Szmukm, will be in touch as soon as he wakes up (nine hour time difference). Thanks again for the personal touch with questions. Rare and mo0st welcome these days. Best. Neil

[philophobos]

Thanks Neil, Kovid. I t seems that the problem was the Calibre version I've been using. I just installed the latest version and everything is fine now.