Is it possible to create and save a 'Conversion' profile in Calibre that stores your settings? If there is one I can't seem to find it.
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Saving a Conversion Profile?
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Paragraph breaks being eaten in Markdown to EPUB conversion
I've got a collection of books in Markdown format, which is a good choice for them, there being little need for formatting in these books: chapter heads, maybe a little boldface and italic markup, maybe a horizontal rule to break up a second...that's enough.
However, I'd also like to have EPUB versions of these because that adds a few features I want such as remembering the last-read position, binding the author name into the book, etc.
The problem is that I end up with a wall-of-text no matter how I format the source Markdown files or what adjustments I make to the various paragraph styling options in the dialog Calibre presents when you click it Convert Books button.
I won't claim to have exhaustively tested all possible combinations, but I've got to be up to about 20 combinations so far. No matter what, all the paragraphs get run together until the next header break, horizontal rule, etc.
Is this a bug, or is there some secret to getting proper paragraph breaks?
In case it matters, my ideal Markdown flavor is UTF-8, LF-only line endings, and no hard line breaks in the source text. That is, each paragraph is on a single line, soft-wrapped to the window width in my Markdown editor, with at least two LFs separating each paragraph. (Sometimes I put in extra vertical space between major sections.)
I want the resulting EPUB to show a blank line between paragraphs, with no first-line indent, so that it looks approximately like the source Markdown.
You can correctly infer from my double LFs that I'm working on a POSIX type platform, macOS 10.14, specifically.
These Markdown files render just fine in all the other Markdown renderers I've tried, so I'm confident that they're well-formed. I've even run them through "od -c" to make sure there aren't some odd hidden characters causing problems, but no, they're pretty much plain ASCII with the occasional UTF-8 character. (em dashes and curly quotes, mainly.) I've got the text input option set to utf-8 in the Calibre conversion dialog.
I've also gone through these files to strip trailing spaces from lines, except in those rare cases where I put in 2 spaces at the end to force a soft line break.
I've tried hard-wrapping these paragraphs to 72 columns, but that doesn't help, and I don't want to format these docs that way anyway.
After fighting with Calibre conversion settings, I've gone and reset all the settings to the defaults to make sure it isn't some kind of configuration error on my part, and it still gives me wall-fo-text EPUB output.
However, I'd also like to have EPUB versions of these because that adds a few features I want such as remembering the last-read position, binding the author name into the book, etc.
The problem is that I end up with a wall-of-text no matter how I format the source Markdown files or what adjustments I make to the various paragraph styling options in the dialog Calibre presents when you click it Convert Books button.
I won't claim to have exhaustively tested all possible combinations, but I've got to be up to about 20 combinations so far. No matter what, all the paragraphs get run together until the next header break, horizontal rule, etc.
Is this a bug, or is there some secret to getting proper paragraph breaks?
In case it matters, my ideal Markdown flavor is UTF-8, LF-only line endings, and no hard line breaks in the source text. That is, each paragraph is on a single line, soft-wrapped to the window width in my Markdown editor, with at least two LFs separating each paragraph. (Sometimes I put in extra vertical space between major sections.)
I want the resulting EPUB to show a blank line between paragraphs, with no first-line indent, so that it looks approximately like the source Markdown.
You can correctly infer from my double LFs that I'm working on a POSIX type platform, macOS 10.14, specifically.
These Markdown files render just fine in all the other Markdown renderers I've tried, so I'm confident that they're well-formed. I've even run them through "od -c" to make sure there aren't some odd hidden characters causing problems, but no, they're pretty much plain ASCII with the occasional UTF-8 character. (em dashes and curly quotes, mainly.) I've got the text input option set to utf-8 in the Calibre conversion dialog.
I've also gone through these files to strip trailing spaces from lines, except in those rare cases where I put in 2 spaces at the end to force a soft line break.
I've tried hard-wrapping these paragraphs to 72 columns, but that doesn't help, and I don't want to format these docs that way anyway.
After fighting with Calibre conversion settings, I've gone and reset all the settings to the defaults to make sure it isn't some kind of configuration error on my part, and it still gives me wall-fo-text EPUB output.
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PDF to docx to mobi
I have a PDF I'm trying to get on my Kindle, but I'm having trouble.
Tried converting the PDF direct to mobi. All the text disappeared completely.
here's a folder where they're stored, if anyone is in the least bit interested:
[snip]
So had the bright idea of saving the pdf as a docx (within Acrobat). That worked. Then dropped the docx into Calibre, and converted to mobi. It stripped out all the spaces.
if anyone wants to have a look, here's the folder with the docx and mobi files:
[snip]
Any ideas? Many thanks in advance...
Tried converting the PDF direct to mobi. All the text disappeared completely.
here's a folder where they're stored, if anyone is in the least bit interested:
[snip]
So had the bright idea of saving the pdf as a docx (within Acrobat). That worked. Then dropped the docx into Calibre, and converted to mobi. It stripped out all the spaces.
if anyone wants to have a look, here's the folder with the docx and mobi files:
[snip]
Any ideas? Many thanks in advance...
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Lines Broken
Good Morning. I'm new in this group and I'm from Brazil. I'm trying to convert a pdf to MOBI or AZW3 but the lines are getting broken, as in the figure below. How can I resolve this? Thank you
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Conversion problem EPUB to MOBI
I have started to get strange results when I convert. The new file appears to be readable and transfers to my Kindle Paperwhite OK but I get an error when I try to copy it to another Caliber library. This not only has started to occur with new conversions but also applies to prior conversions that copied OK at the time of the original conversion.
My error message for one book is:
calibre, version 3.39.0
ERROR: Failed to copy books: Could not copy any books, click "Show Details" for more information.
Failed to copy a book, see below for details
Copying: Odessa Sea-24~B1 failed, with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\copy_to_library.py", line 160, in _doit
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\copy_to_library.py", line 175, in do_one
File "site-packages\calibre\db\copy_to_library.py", line 109, in copy_one_book
File "site-packages\calibre\db\copy_to_library.py", line 63, in postprocess_copy
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 63, in call_func_with_lock
TypeError: set_conversion_options() takes at most 3 arguments (4 given)
I may have screwed up a setting somewhere but I have no idea what happened. Any help would be appreciated.
My error message for one book is:
calibre, version 3.39.0
ERROR: Failed to copy books: Could not copy any books, click "Show Details" for more information.
Failed to copy a book, see below for details
Copying: Odessa Sea-24~B1 failed, with error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\copy_to_library.py", line 160, in _doit
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\copy_to_library.py", line 175, in do_one
File "site-packages\calibre\db\copy_to_library.py", line 109, in copy_one_book
File "site-packages\calibre\db\copy_to_library.py", line 63, in postprocess_copy
File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 63, in call_func_with_lock
TypeError: set_conversion_options() takes at most 3 arguments (4 given)
I may have screwed up a setting somewhere but I have no idea what happened. Any help would be appreciated.
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ePub > mobi both - Settings
Hi,
My computer died and I had to install everything on a new one. I have an issue though, I don't find a way to convert my ebooks to mobi in order to have a dual mobi I can send to Amazon cloud.
I remember vaguely I found years ago some settings that were allowing me to do the conversion correctly.
I've tried to do some conversion, removing the PDOC prefix and choosing the mobi dual, but when I send it to my Cloud, my Kindle seems to get only an old mobi (with cover)
Can someone help me with that?
Thank you :)
My computer died and I had to install everything on a new one. I have an issue though, I don't find a way to convert my ebooks to mobi in order to have a dual mobi I can send to Amazon cloud.
I remember vaguely I found years ago some settings that were allowing me to do the conversion correctly.
I've tried to do some conversion, removing the PDOC prefix and choosing the mobi dual, but when I send it to my Cloud, my Kindle seems to get only an old mobi (with cover)
Can someone help me with that?
Thank you :)
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Automation ?
I frequently modify and/or change book covers in Calibre. When I do, I then re-do the conversions so the new/changed covers will be in the database and in the book itself.
I ALWAYS convert to threel formats. (EPUB, MOBI, AZW3)
Is there anyway I can create a "single operation" ...a macro...or script...to do the conversion to each of the several formats; instead of doing three separate passes.
Thank you,
jp
I ALWAYS convert to threel formats. (EPUB, MOBI, AZW3)
Is there anyway I can create a "single operation" ...a macro...or script...to do the conversion to each of the several formats; instead of doing three separate passes.
Thank you,
jp
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spacing problem in Kindle AZW3 converted from rtf file
Please forgive this newby question, which I'm sure has been discussed before.
My goal is to transfer my manuscript of quotes for distribution via Kindle.
I first formatted the text and created a pdf that can be used for viewing on the computer.
Following suggestions read on this forum, I then used CALIBRE to convert the rft manuscript to AZW3. The problem is line spacing. Attached you can see:
a. sample from the pdf, with proper line spacing
b. sample from the reformatted rtf, still respecting the line spacing design
c. photo of Kindle screen that shows wrong line spacing.
I do read in the forums that I need to play with the CSS codes for text height and line height to create the design I desire. My questions at this point are:
1. where are these codes in the rtf file? how can I view them? I can see the pilcrows but nothing more than that.
2. what program should I use to try to edit those?
thank you.
My goal is to transfer my manuscript of quotes for distribution via Kindle.
I first formatted the text and created a pdf that can be used for viewing on the computer.
Following suggestions read on this forum, I then used CALIBRE to convert the rft manuscript to AZW3. The problem is line spacing. Attached you can see:
a. sample from the pdf, with proper line spacing
b. sample from the reformatted rtf, still respecting the line spacing design
c. photo of Kindle screen that shows wrong line spacing.
I do read in the forums that I need to play with the CSS codes for text height and line height to create the design I desire. My questions at this point are:
1. where are these codes in the rtf file? how can I view them? I can see the pilcrows but nothing more than that.
2. what program should I use to try to edit those?
thank you.
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Convert Kindle book into ePub with Linux & Android (no Mac/Windows/Kindle device)
I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 (Cinnamon desktop). I don't have Windows or Mac. I access my Kindle books either on the Amazon Kindle app on my Samsung Android phone (Amazon Kindle app) or on my laptop Firefox browser pointed to the Kindle Cloud Reader (read.amazon.com) . I don't have a physical Kindle device.
With the hardware I have, can I convert my Kindle ebooks into ePub? Can Calibre do the job?
With the hardware I have, can I convert my Kindle ebooks into ePub? Can Calibre do the job?
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MOBI > PDF font size
Is there a way to increase font size in the output PDF?
I see an option "--pdf-default-font-size" but no additional parameters shown.
Thanks in advance.
Calibre 3.39.1/Win 10 or Linux
I see an option "--pdf-default-font-size" but no additional parameters shown.
Thanks in advance.
Calibre 3.39.1/Win 10 or Linux
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Don't keep converted files?
Is there any way to tell Calibre to delete the converted version once it has been sent to a device?
I've got lots of .epub files. When I send to a Kindle, they get automatically converted - that's fine, and they look great. But I don't want to keep the converted ones. I just want to keep the originals.
I've checked the help file and the settings, but I'm not seeing anything that looks like it will do what I want.
(I only want to keep the originals for disk space reasons - and so that I can take advantage of better conversion techniques in the future.)
Thanks!
I've got lots of .epub files. When I send to a Kindle, they get automatically converted - that's fine, and they look great. But I don't want to keep the converted ones. I just want to keep the originals.
I've checked the help file and the settings, but I'm not seeing anything that looks like it will do what I want.
(I only want to keep the originals for disk space reasons - and so that I can take advantage of better conversion techniques in the future.)
Thanks!
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Harvard Classics (a.k.a. 5-foot Book Shelf)
Has anyone successfully converted this from AZW3 to ePub? How long did it take?
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epub>azw3 math problem on kindle
hi, I have recently purchased an epub format ebook which has mathematical expressions in it and i want to read it on my kindle paperwhite (firmware: 5.10.2).
i used the calibre (3.39.1) to convert it to azw3 and I can read it fine on calibre's viewer. however, when I transfer the azw3 file to kindle (by usb), math expressions appear corrupted.
does anyone have an advice on this?
thanks!
p.s. I tried converting to mobi format too but calibre's viewer did not display math expressions.
i used the calibre (3.39.1) to convert it to azw3 and I can read it fine on calibre's viewer. however, when I transfer the azw3 file to kindle (by usb), math expressions appear corrupted.
does anyone have an advice on this?
thanks!
p.s. I tried converting to mobi format too but calibre's viewer did not display math expressions.
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Cannot save preferences in Calibre
I had to reinstall Calibre for an updated OS and attempting to set up Calibre, I cannot save any changes in preferences
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¿ Calibre conversion to pdf problem ?
Hello, I'm new. Nice to meet y'all.
I'm trying to convert to a pdf in Calibre. I have a source Word docx, from which I made a great epub. Now I need a pdf but this pdf has a problem that I haven't encountered before, and I've done dozens of these. I'm stumped.
It's a long book with 154 chapters spread over 4 pages. All the TOC links located on the first page go to chapter 24. ?????
I probably have the TOC settings wrong in the conversion window. Clueless...
Help? Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to convert to a pdf in Calibre. I have a source Word docx, from which I made a great epub. Now I need a pdf but this pdf has a problem that I haven't encountered before, and I've done dozens of these. I'm stumped.
It's a long book with 154 chapters spread over 4 pages. All the TOC links located on the first page go to chapter 24. ?????
I probably have the TOC settings wrong in the conversion window. Clueless...
Help? Thanks in advance.
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AZW3 to PDF for iPad Pro 10.5-inch: Recommended Settings?
I would like to convert an AZW3 to a PDF that will display optimally on my iPad Pro 10.5-inch. (My iPad's screen resolution is 2,224 x 1,668, and I primarily use PDF Expert to read PDFs on the device.)
Using Calibre's default settings, the results are quite decent, but I'm wondering if further improvements are possible...
Can anyone recommend which conversion settings I should select or change to yield best results? I realize a lot of this may boil down to user preference, but I am new to Calibre and looking for some good suggestions with which to begin -- or any options that are universally a good idea to choose given my setup.
Thanks!
Using Calibre's default settings, the results are quite decent, but I'm wondering if further improvements are possible...
Can anyone recommend which conversion settings I should select or change to yield best results? I realize a lot of this may boil down to user preference, but I am new to Calibre and looking for some good suggestions with which to begin -- or any options that are universally a good idea to choose given my setup.
Thanks!
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Keep PDF look, just convert to MOBI
Hi there,
So, I'm a total newb. Part of the reason I got my Fire HD 8 was so I could save some professional documents to my Kindle for easy viewing. Some of my PDF's have saved to MOBI format beautifully. Others, not so much.
I'm looking to keep the look of each PDF as I have it now. I'd like to import it to my Kindle library as I've found they load much faster that way. However, some of my PDFs actually convert to an ebook format and the text is spread across several pages and it separates ideas in ways I do not want it to be separated. I literally just want it to save like it would as the PDF. I imagine that if I printed out each document and then scanned it as a PDF again this issue would disappear, as the text would have been saved as a scanned image. However, we're talking 200 some odd page documents and I have no desire to print these out and scan them again. Surely there has to be a way to avoid this!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
So, I'm a total newb. Part of the reason I got my Fire HD 8 was so I could save some professional documents to my Kindle for easy viewing. Some of my PDF's have saved to MOBI format beautifully. Others, not so much.
I'm looking to keep the look of each PDF as I have it now. I'd like to import it to my Kindle library as I've found they load much faster that way. However, some of my PDFs actually convert to an ebook format and the text is spread across several pages and it separates ideas in ways I do not want it to be separated. I literally just want it to save like it would as the PDF. I imagine that if I printed out each document and then scanned it as a PDF again this issue would disappear, as the text would have been saved as a scanned image. However, we're talking 200 some odd page documents and I have no desire to print these out and scan them again. Surely there has to be a way to avoid this!
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Incorporating NCX file into Epub3 book for backward compatibility
I am getting requests for Epub3 files that still have an NCX file for backward compatibility. I am converting from original .docx files, with a simple hyperlink TOC added for in-book use. The converter uses "Heading1" and other signals to build the actual Epub3 TOC in the nav.xhtml file.
While the Epub3 conversion works well except for some minor after-conversion .xhtml edits needed, there doesn't seem to be any conversion option to seamlessly add an additional NCX file during the conversion process.
I can tack an NCX file into the book using the TOC editor, but EpubCheck 4.1.1 has problems with it, and it reads in the Calibre viewer as two consecutive TOCs.
Could the Calibre converter maybe add an option somewhere for "add NCX file to Epub3 for backward compatibility?" Or is there already one somewhere I've missed, like a plug-in?
While the Epub3 conversion works well except for some minor after-conversion .xhtml edits needed, there doesn't seem to be any conversion option to seamlessly add an additional NCX file during the conversion process.
I can tack an NCX file into the book using the TOC editor, but EpubCheck 4.1.1 has problems with it, and it reads in the Calibre viewer as two consecutive TOCs.
Could the Calibre converter maybe add an option somewhere for "add NCX file to Epub3 for backward compatibility?" Or is there already one somewhere I've missed, like a plug-in?
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importing odt; get metadata from text
Hi,
here is a problem, with that i am struggeling for quite some time now.
I have a bunch of .odt files (2k++) that i want to import into calibre and subsequently to my device.
the Text on every one is formated as:
<h1>title
<h5>author
(<h2> chapter)
text
with the <h#> as the header-degree
not every file has "chapters", but first and second line should allway be interpreted to title and author.
Is there a civiliced way for the batch-import or do i have to get an intern :D to do this for me by hand?
here is a problem, with that i am struggeling for quite some time now.
I have a bunch of .odt files (2k++) that i want to import into calibre and subsequently to my device.
the Text on every one is formated as:
<h1>title
<h5>author
(<h2> chapter)
text
with the <h#> as the header-degree
not every file has "chapters", but first and second line should allway be interpreted to title and author.
Is there a civiliced way for the batch-import or do i have to get an intern :D to do this for me by hand?
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Miniaturized cover when kindle converted to epub
I have encountered this in a few books sent by a friend who buys kindle books and ibooks and had thought these must have been ibook to epub conversions.
I borrowed I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban ISBN: 9780316280570 from my library and it loaded (AdobeDigitalEdition for Windows pc) with a miniaturized cover. It was also available as a kindle download.
Now I'm curious. What causes the miniaturization and is it something one can fix in Edit?
Thank you.
I borrowed I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban ISBN: 9780316280570 from my library and it loaded (AdobeDigitalEdition for Windows pc) with a miniaturized cover. It was also available as a kindle download.
Now I'm curious. What causes the miniaturization and is it something one can fix in Edit?
Thank you.
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