conversion from epub to mobi and docx does not export series tag

June 11, 2020, 1:03 am

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Hello.
When I try to convert ebook from epub format to to mobi and docx format, exported files do not have series tag, which is present in the original file:

ebook-meta.exe City of Illusions - Ursula K. LeGuin.epub (original file):
Title : City of Illusions
Title sort : City of Illusions
Author(s) : Ursula K. LeGuin [LeGuin, Ursula K.]
Publisher : Gateway
Book Producer : calibre (2.38.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com]
Tags : Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
Series : Ekumen #3
Languages : eng
Rating : 4
Published : 2015-10-02T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : amazon:B011A4SVSC
Comments : Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing.**

ebook-meta.exe City of Illusions - Ursula K. LeGuin.docx (conversion #1):
Title : City of Illusions
Author(s) : Ursula K. LeGuin [LeGuin, Ursula K.]
Publisher : Gateway
Tags : Science, Fiction, &, Fantasy, Science, Fiction
Languages : eng
Comments : Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing.**

ebook-meta.exe: City of Illusions - Ursula K. LeGuin.mobi (conversion #2):
Title : City of Illusions
Author(s) : Ursula K. LeGuin
Publisher : Gateway
Book Producer : calibre (4.17.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com]
Tags : Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
Languages : eng
Published : 2015-10-02T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers : mobi-asin:f05626b0-7dd9-41d8-9cff-036ea953a69b
Comments : Earth, like the rest of the Known Worlds, has fallen to the Shing. Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. They have lost the skills, science and knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds, and whenever a colony of humans tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, with their strange, mindlying power, crush them out. There is one man who can stand against the malign Shing, but he is an alien with amber eyes and must first prove to paranoid humanity that he himself is not a creature of the Shing.**

Series and series # is missing in docx and mobi.
Docx supports "custom properties" tags, which could be used for series.
They can be viewed/edited by wps office writer (free program), or ms word.
They can be of various types: text, number, date, boolean (yes/no).
Could support for .docx custom tags be added to calibre-meta, too?
More info on custom properties: https://support.office.com/en-us/art...4-1dd4622c6b75

Or atleast subject field in docx could be used, which is not used during conversion.
(calibre-meta sees subject field as another keyword tag.)

Or tags in calibre (called keywords in docx) could be used for extra tags.

Not sure about mobi.

Please write if I should post this somewhere like on the bugs/issues page.

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Multiple AZW > PDF Conversion Preference Profile Settings

June 13, 2020, 5:59 am

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Hi,

It is possible to save your AZW > PDF conversion settings in Preferences. This is REALLY helpful!

Is it possible to have TWO unique sets of AZW > PDF conversion preferences?

Here is my thinking: I use one set of conversion preferences for texts I'll use chiefly on-screen. The other set for documents I'd likely print.

Right now I'm needing to kind of keep a running tab of all the small changes between the two, and I enter those based on what I'll be using the document for.

Is there anyway for me to have

Conversion Preferences

azw > pdf (1)
azw > pdf (2)

Sincerely,

Blaine

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Calibre Conversion: Inconsistent Font Output When Converting From Epub to Docx

June 15, 2020, 8:15 pm

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Hello,

First of all I would like to thank Kovid Goyal and all other contributors for creating this exceptional piece of software.

I am currently using Calibre to convert a bunch of epub books to Docx format so that I can directly edit the manuscript's back matter. At first the conversions were really inconsistent and messy. A lot of epubs are created with Vellum and other automated softwares these days which produces really hideous HTML. But once I turned on Heuristic Processing the improvement in conversion quality was absolutely dramatic and it became *Almost Perfect*.

I am just having a problem with Calibre's font selection now.

There does not seems to be any rhyme or reason regarding Calibre's choice of a default font in a converted document. Sometimes the body text is in Calibri 11 Pt, sometimes it is Palatino 12 Pt and at other times it is in Cambria 12 Pt. My default font in MS Word 2019 is Times New Roman 16 Pt and Calibre never follows it.

Is there any way for forcing Calibre to use my default font settings when converting a document? My default font settings are:

Body Text (Normal Paragraph) - Time New Roman 16 Pt
Heading 1 - Calibri Light (Heading) 20 Pt
Heading 2 - Calibri Light (Heading) 18 Pt
Title - Calibri Light (Heading) 36 Pt
Subtitle - Calibri (Body) 16 Pt

Any help will be really appreciated. :thanks:

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Conversion to epub from lit... boldface??

June 15, 2020, 9:23 pm

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I converted some .lit files to epub using ebook-convert. Usually this works like a charm, no brainer. But for some reason this time, the output epub files all seem to be set in boldface, and I don't see a text option in my reader (Marvin) to turn it off. I can change fonts and sizes but so far no luck getting rid of the boldface.

I'm guessing I'll have to dig into the epubs and fix it internally, which is a bit beyond my skill set at present (but an opportunity to learn!). Any thoughts? has anyone else ended up with an entire book in boldface? (It's readable, but rather fatiguing).

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Convert Epub > RTF or TXT: Any Way To Eliminate Page Numbers?

June 16, 2020, 6:24 am

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Hi,

Converting a book from epub to either txt or rtf the physical page numbers persist. So that, even though you just have a scrolling screen of text, every 6 paragraphs or so your'll have a line with just

16

Is there any way to set the conversion variables so that the output of

txt
rtf

files excise the page numbers?

I was thinking could it be done via regular expressions?

Or, is there another setting that either one could rig to eliminate page numbers?

Or, a perhaps there's a built-in feature epub > txt / rtf conversion that handles this that I'm missing.

Many thanks!

Sincerely,

Blaine

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800 - Page Long Book: After Conversion Every Line Has Words Stuck Together

June 17, 2020, 12:05 am

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Hi,

Using Epub and even PDF to convert to

docx
text
rtf

Seems like at least every line has words that need spaces but didn't get them:

eighteenthcentury

betterthan

atleast

I've got access to different versions of the books: Epub & Adobe. Still, going into any of the above 3 formats I get the same stuck-together-words issue.

What do you think is happening?

Sincerely,

Blaine

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How to convert Epub to txt with number remained?

June 19, 2020, 9:04 am

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I have an Epub with <ol> and <li>, so it has number. How to remain it when I convert it to txt? Because I find the txt do not have number.

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Font won't embed

June 19, 2020, 4:59 pm

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I have a proprietary font that embeds perfectly into EPUB, but when I try converting it to MOBI, the font is skipped. I check the metadata in the EPUB and the font is properly referenced there.
Any idea how to proceed?

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"typesetting not supported for this book" help please!

June 20, 2020, 11:36 am

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I have the latest kfx output plugin installed on calibre. however during conversion of any of my epubs to kfx at 67% completion i always get this message: Enhanced typesetting not supported for this book. I have the latest software and plugins installed and I'm a little puzzled as to why this is not working for me any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Input images being cropped

June 24, 2020, 10:26 am

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Hi, i have a book that appears to be all images, even the text. When it is imported into calibre, the images seem to be cropped meaning much of the book is missing.
I have selected default input and output profiles and kept everything else as default but still the book is cropped.
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Unable to convert PDF book to KFX

June 24, 2020, 4:33 pm

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Hello, any insights? :help: I attached the PDF here as well. Below is the error message. Thanks in advance! :iloveyou:

Spoiler:

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Can't convert comic

June 27, 2020, 10:21 am

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I've been trying to convert a comic from the cbz format to MOBI, but I keep getting this error:
Python function terminated unexpectedly
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site.py", line 114, in main
File "site.py", line 88, in run_entry_point
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\worker.py", line 209, in main
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 43, in gui_convert_override
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\convert\gui_conversion.py", line 28, in gui_convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plumber.py", line 1110, in run
File "site-packages\calibre\customize\conversion.py", line 246, in __call__
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\comic_i nput.py", line 185, in convert
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\conversion\plugins\comic_i nput.py", line 149, in get_pages
File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\comic\input.py", line 273, in process_pages
Exception: Failed to process comic:

If it helps I'm on windows 10

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AZW DRMerror

June 27, 2020, 11:05 am

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Hi there

My Config: calibre 4.19 (DeDRM 6.5.5) on ubuntu 20.04. I had no problems to convert form AZW/3 to EPUB. Since today I'm getting the following error on few Kindle Books (not all of them):

Code:

calibre, version 4.19.0 (linux2, embedded-python: True)

Konvertierungsfehler: Fehlgeschlagen: Buch 1 von 1 (Die tote Hose) konvertieren



Buch 1 von 1 (Die tote Hose) konvertieren

Conversion options changed from defaults:

  verbose: 2

  output_profile: u'generic_eink'

  cover: u'/tmp/calibre_4.19.0_tmp_nNJafC/8oav3U.jpeg'

  read_metadata_from_opf: u'/tmp/calibre_4.19.0_tmp_nNJafC/6sn50f.opf'

Resolved conversion options

calibre version: 4.19.0

{'asciiize': False,

 'author_sort': None,

 'authors': None,

 'base_font_size': 0.0,

 'book_producer': None,

 'change_justification': u'original',

 'chapter': u"//*[((name()='h1' or name()='h2') and re:test(., '\\s*((chapter|book|section|part)\\s+)|((prolog|prologue|epilogue)(\\s+|$))', 'i')) or @class = 'chapter']",

 'chapter_mark': u'pagebreak',

 'comments': None,

 'cover': u'/tmp/calibre_4.19.0_tmp_nNJafC/8oav3U.jpeg',

 'debug_pipeline': None,

 'dehyphenate': True,

 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True,

 'disable_font_rescaling': False,

 'dont_split_on_page_breaks': False,

 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False,

 'embed_all_fonts': False,

 'embed_font_family': None,

 'enable_heuristics': False,

 'epub_flatten': False,

 'epub_inline_toc': False,

 'epub_toc_at_end': False,

 'epub_version': u'2',

 'expand_css': False,

 'extra_css': None,

 'extract_to': None,

 'filter_css': u'',

 'fix_indents': True,

 'flow_size': 260,

 'font_size_mapping': None,

 'format_scene_breaks': True,

 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4,

 'input_encoding': None,

 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x7f417b7cbb50>,

 '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': 5.0,

 'margin_left': 5.0,

 'margin_right': 5.0,

 'margin_top': 5.0,

 'markup_chapter_headings': True,

 'max_toc_links': 50,

 'minimum_line_height': 120.0,

 'no_chapters_in_toc': False,

 'no_default_epub_cover': False,

 'no_inline_navbars': False,

 'no_svg_cover': False,

 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.GenericEink object at 0x7f417b7cbf50>,

 'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']",

 'prefer_metadata_cover': False,

 'preserve_cover_aspect_ratio': False,

 'pretty_print': True,

 'pubdate': None,

 'publisher': None,

 'rating': None,

 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'/tmp/calibre_4.19.0_tmp_nNJafC/6sn50f.opf',

 'remove_fake_margins': True,

 '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': 6,

 'toc_title': None,

 'transform_css_rules': '[]',

 'unsmarten_punctuation': False,

 'unwrap_lines': True,

 'use_auto_toc': False,

 'verbose': 2}

InputFormatPlugin: MOBI Input running

on /tmp/calibre_4.19.0_tmp_nNJafC/500oRO.azw

Found KF8 MOBI of type u'standalone'

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "site.py", line 77, in main

  File "site-packages/calibre/utils/ipc/worker.py", line 209, in main

  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 43, in gui_convert_override

  File "site-packages/calibre/gui2/convert/gui_conversion.py", line 28, in gui_convert

  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 1110, in run

  File "site-packages/calibre/customize/conversion.py", line 246, in __call__

  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_input.py", line 47, in convert

  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi8.py", line 86, in __call__

  File "site-packages/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py", line 158, in check_for_drm

DRMError: Die tote Hose

Does anybody have an clue what this error means? Thank you and kind regards, Laszlo

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Wrong order of wors when converting Arabic ebook

June 28, 2020, 4:24 am

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Hi there,

I have tried converting some ebooks (epub) in Arabic for a Kindle.

The words look good, but the order of words is wrong. For example, this would be the correct right-to-left order:

.Arabic in sentence a is This

When I open the epub (before conversion) in my computer, in Calibre's Viewer, it looks good. But when I open it in my Kindle, the text is aligned to the left (as in English) and the order of words is left to right (as in English).

Is there any special setting that I must use to keep the correct order and alignment?

Cheers, Manuel

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Can't convert azw3 file in pdf.

July 1, 2020, 10:01 am

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I think it's not a problem specific to the file I tried to convert, but to Calibre itself. So, without further ado, here's the code:

Code:

calibre, version 4.19.0

ERRORE: Eccezione non gestita: <b>IOError</b>:[Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\\Users\\almark164\\Documents\\Biblioteca di calibre\\Elizabeth Kay\\7 Lies (1268)\\7 Lies - Elizabeth Kay.pdf'



calibre 4.19 [64bit]  embedded-python: True is64bit: True

Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')

('Windows', '10', '10.0.18362')

Python 2.7.16+

Windows: ('10', '10.0.18362', 'SP0', u'Multiprocessor Free')

Interface language: it

Successfully initialized third party plugins: Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (1, 32, 0) && DeDRM (6, 5, 5) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (1, 32, 0) && EpubMerge (2, 9, 0) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (1, 32, 0) && KFX Input (1, 32, 0) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 82, 1) && FanFicFare (3, 20, 1)

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\__init__.py", line 490, in dispatch

  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\actions\convert.py", line 269, in book_converted

  File "site-packages\calibre\db\legacy.py", line 289, in add_format

  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1449, in add_format

  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1414, in _do_add_format

  File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1551, in add_format

  File "site-packages\calibre\startup.py", line 169, in local_open

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'C:\\Users\\almark164\\Documents\\Biblioteca di calibre\\Elizabeth Kay\\7 Lies (1268)\\7 Lies - Elizabeth Kay.pdf'

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How to turn multiple jpg images into 1 pdf ebook file

June 30, 2020, 2:08 pm

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I have been downloading a few manga from the internet lately and I was wondering how to turn jpg files into 1 pdf file. So each manga will have there original number per ebook.

Example the first manga I downloaded has (40) images. Which means I need to look at each image one at a time. And I need to use a image viewer app on my tablet. I prefer a free ebook reader. So I wanted to know if there is a way to turn (40) jpgs into (1) pdf ebook. And if so can I do it with this program if not could you suggest a free program that might work thank you!

By the way when I said Original number it means this the first chapter of the manga is Chapter (1) and that Chapter has (40) images including the cover art. So I want to make a PDF ebook file for each of the manga Chapters so that way each Chapter has there own ebook file. I hope this makes sense. Thanks again.

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How to convert mobi files to magazine/newspaper like mobi files.

July 2, 2020, 9:00 am

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I have noticed that while reading newspaper downloaded using calibre news recipe is different from normal mobi files. So is there a way to convert normal mobi files to newspaper/magazine like mobi files? If so, then please tell me. I have been searching for it since weeks but couldn't find anything.

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