Save Conversion Settings
Can this be added to Calibre - save a set of Conversion settings to a named list, select and apply a member of the list to a selected document(s). GUI-wise I envisage Save and Load options on the...
View ArticleAdvantage of KF8 w/Kindle Keyboard?
I have a Kindle Keyboard with ver. 3.3 firmware -- latest one I know of. Recently I've been using the Calibre plugin tweak test_mobi_output_type = 'both' when converting ePub files to Mobi. The results...
View ArticleHeuristic Processing PDB
I'm having a bit of trouble with this. I have an ebook (PDB) which is a complete mess, it's all one single line of text, large parts are italiced and large parts are in bold for no good reason. When I...
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Template Error in Calibre Files unreadable after conversion
Hi' I have a major problem here. Firstly every file I try and convert shows "Template Error"sign just above the "Converting Widget" in the Calibre GUI (see attach 1) If I try and convert any file like...
View ArticleDisable 'Tweet' page in Kindle conversion
I study various subjects (very mature student!) and like to keep notes on my Kindle. It is one of my pet hates that every conversion inserts a final page inviting me to share my private notes with the...
View ArticleWhat triggers epub split?
Hi been converting my whole library to epub and mobi. I set it running (took it 4 days for 9500 books with heuristic processing!!) However it keeps falling over on certain books. They are already epubs...
View ArticleExtract TOC from EPUB
Hi, I am using Calibre 0.8.38 in Ubuntu 12.04. I use the command-line tool 'ebook-convert' to convert a EPUB to PDF. But the TOC is not converted to PDF Bookmarks. Can anyone tell me which option i...
View Articlelxml.etree._utf8 crash
This is probably a question for Kovid. I'm getting a trap in lxml.etree._utf8 with the message "ValueError: All strings must be XML compatible: Unicode or ASCII, no NULL bytes or control characters"...
View ArticleConverting in color
I have Calibre 0.8.62 and i cannot get it to convert in color, i cant find the turn grayscale off option ANYWHERE, can someone please tell me where it is or which version to download in order to...
View ArticleHow to ask a question about conversion problems
Conversion of ebooks from one format to another is complex. A conversion is the result of the interaction of thousands of different inputs and subsystems. In order to ask a question in a way that is...
View ArticleCan't convert files
When I try to convert a file I get this error: calibre, version 0.8.9 ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:'completion_change_to_ascii_sorting' Traceback (most recent call last):...
View ArticleImages im front of Chapter title get moved to a new page
I have an ePub that has a image at the top of every chapter followed by the chapter header text. When converting to Mobi, the image becomes separated on a single page for every chapter. I did try...
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New iPad (3) profile
Hi, not sure if this is to do with the profile or simply the way it converts but in the original screenshot the text is formatted nicely, with correct spacing. But the converted screenshot shows how...
View ArticleXDA book format??
Been trying to get both ePub and Mobi versions of all my ebooks. Some are supposedly .mobi files but Kindle app won't open and when I try Calibre convert I get told they are XDA format?? - see below...
View ArticleXML Import in to calibre (and to epub)
Hi, i have an xml structure and calibre don't recognize the structure. :( Example: Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="pbdefault.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>...
View Articleconverting from iTunes
How do I get books from my iTunes library into calibre for converting to kindle,when I try to drag a book from iTunes library into calibre i get the following message. TYPE ERROR must be encoded string...
View Article.ODT to Epub text shrinkage...
On conversion from .odt to epub via Calibre, the first two pages of text (a small paragraph on each page) in the resulting epub file are nearly microscopic. In the .odt, they are correctly sized. All...
View ArticleQuery about kindle touch TOC problems
Hi, I've been using calibre for a while to create reasonably basic epubs for ipad/other readers and mobi files for kindle. I convert from indesign to get my epub, then edit the css and general other...
View ArticleHTML5 parsing
This is a heads up for people converting stuff that has HTML5 tags in it. I've discovered that BeautifulSoup rearranges HTML code fragments that have a <p> tag within a <figcaption> tag. It...
View Article.otc to .epub and .mobi problem
I recently wrote a book which is available for sale as a paperback on amazon.com. Now I am trying to get the ebook together. The original is an .otc file (Open Office) and I'm using Calibre to convert....
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