07-14-2020, 10:22 AM | #1 |
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PDF to KFX conversion error
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I was recently gifted a kindle 10th generation by my uncle and I was looking up on how to make the best use of it. The general advice for the file format was to use .mobi but my e-book (in pdf format) looked quite ugly and in many cases, unreadable, after conversion to .mobi format. I used calibre for the conversion. I came to know then of the .kfx format and i installed the kfx plugin and kindle previewer 3. But once i tried to go ahead with the conversion, I'm getting a conversion error. I have attached the conversion log. Please help me out :l Code:
Convert book 1 of 1 (Thinking, Fast and Slow) Conversion options changed from defaults: verbose: 2 cover: u'C:\\Users\\PRASHA~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_0xsuv_\\2iljo4.jpeg' read_metadata_from_opf: u'C:\\Users\\PRASHA~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_0xsuv_\\eb9ctn.opf' output_profile: u'kindle' show_kpr_logs: True approximate_pages: True Resolved conversion options calibre version: 4.20.0 {'approximate_pages': True, 'asciiize': False, 'author_sort': None, 'authors': None, 'base_font_size': 0.0, 'book_producer': None, 'cde_type_pdoc': False, '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'C:\\Users\\PRASHA~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_0xsuv_\\2iljo4.jpeg', 'debug_pipeline': None, 'dehyphenate': True, 'delete_blank_paragraphs': True, 'disable_font_rescaling': False, 'duplicate_links_in_toc': False, 'embed_all_fonts': False, 'embed_font_family': None, 'enable_heuristics': False, 'enable_timeout': False, 'expand_css': False, 'extra_css': None, 'filter_css': u'', 'fix_indents': True, 'font_size_mapping': None, 'format_scene_breaks': True, 'html_unwrap_factor': 0.4, 'input_encoding': None, 'input_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.InputProfile object at 0x000002E87E05BAC8>, '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, 'new_pdf_engine': False, 'no_chapters_in_toc': False, 'no_images': False, 'no_inline_navbars': False, 'number_of_pages_field': u'(auto)', 'output_profile': <calibre.customize.profiles.KindleOutput object at 0x000002E87E064F48>, 'page_breaks_before': u"//*[name()='h1' or name()='h2']", 'prefer_metadata_cover': False, 'pretty_print': True, 'pubdate': None, 'publisher': None, 'rating': None, 'read_metadata_from_opf': u'C:\\Users\\PRASHA~1\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\calibre_0xsuv_\\eb9ctn.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, 'show_kpr_logs': True, '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, 'transform_css_rules': '[]', 'unsmarten_punctuation': False, 'unwrap_factor': 0.45, 'unwrap_lines': True, 'use_auto_toc': False, 'verbose': 2} InputFormatPlugin: PDF Input running on C:\Users\PRASHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_0xsuv_\ygi6jn.pdf Converting file to html... pdftohtml log: Page-1 Page-2 Page-3 Page-4 Page-5 Page-6 Page-7 Page-8 Page-9 Page-10 Page-11 Page-12 Page-13 Page-14 Page-15 Page-16 Page-17 Page-18 Page-19 Page-20 Page-21 Page-22 Page-23 Page-24 Page-25 Page-26 Page-27 Page-28 Page-29 Page-30 Page-31 Page-32 Page-33 Page-34 Page-35 Page-36 Page-37 Page-38 Page-39 Page-40 Page-41 Page-42 Page-43 Page-44 Page-45 Page-46 Page-47 Page-48 Page-49 Page-50 Page-51 Page-52 Page-53 Page-54 Page-55 Page-56 Page-57 Page-58 Page-59 Page-60 Page-61 Page-62 Page-63 Page-64 Page-65 Page-66 Page-67 Page-68 Page-69 Page-70 Page-71 Page-72 Page-73 Page-74 Page-75 Page-76 Page-77 Page-78 Page-79 Page-80 Page-81 Page-82 Page-83 Page-84 Page-85 Page-86 Page-87 Page-88 Page-89 Page-90 Page-91 Page-92 Page-93 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Page-427 Page-428 Page-429 Page-430 Page-431 Page-432 Page-433 Page-434 Page-435 Page-436 Page-437 Page-438 Page-439 Page-440 Page-441 Page-442 Page-443 Page-444 Page-445 Page-446 Page-447 Page-448 Page-449 Page-450 Page-451 Page-452 Page-453 Page-454 Page-455 Page-456 Page-457 Page-458 Page-459 Page-460 Page-461 Page-462 Page-463 Page-464 Page-465 Page-466 Page-467 Page-468 Page-469 Page-470 Page-471 Page-472 Page-473 Page-474 Page-475 Page-476 Page-477 Page-478 Page-479 Page-480 Page-481 Page-482 Page-483 Page-484 Page-485 Page-486 Page-487 Page-488 Page-489 Page-490 Page-491 Page-492 Page-493 Page-494 Page-495 Page-496 Page-497 Page-498 Page-499 Page-500 Page-501 Page-502 Page-503 Page-504 Page-505 Page-506 Page-507 Page-508 Page-509 Page-510 Page-511 Page-512 Page-513 Page-514 Page-515 Page-516 Page-517 Page-518 Page-519 Page-520 Page-521 Page-522 Page-523 Page-524 Page-525 Page-526 Page-527 Page-528 Page-529 Page-530 Page-531 Page-532 Page-533 Retrieving document metadata... Generating manifest... Rendering manifest... Parsing all content... Parsing index.html ... Generating default TOC from spine... Merging user specified metadata... Detecting structure... Auto generated TOC with 0 entries. Flattening CSS and remapping font sizes... Source base font size is 12.00000pt Removing fake margins... Found 5115 items of level: p_1 p_1 left margin stats: Counter({u'0': 5115}) p_1 right margin stats: Counter({u'0': 5115}) Cleaning up manifest... Trimming unused files from manifest... Creating KFX Output... Software versions: KFX Output 1.43.0, calibre 4.20 [64bit], Windows-10-10.0.18362-SP0 KFX Output plugin help is available at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=272407 Rescaling image from 533x274 to 501x257 index-329_1.jpg Rescaling image from 515x337 to 501x328 index-27_1.jpg Rescaling image from 530x171 to 501x161 index-61_1.jpg Rescaling image from 532x268 to 501x252 index-160_1.jpg Rescaling image from 532x44 to 501x41 index-306_1.jpg Rescaling image from 532x40 to 501x37 index-265_1.jpg Rescaling image from 505x60 to 501x59 index-265_2.jpg Rescaling image from 1877x2795 to 414x616 index-1_1.png Rescaling image from 528x216 to 501x205 index-308_1.jpg Rescaling image from 525x690 to 469x616 cover.jpeg Splitting markup on page breaks and flow limits, if any... Splitting on page-break at id=calibre_pb_0 Splitting on page-break at id=calibre_pb_1 Split into 3 parts This EPUB file has no Table of Contents. Creating a default TOC Successfully converted input format to EPUB Converting C:\Users\PRASHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_0xsuv_\mvkvsi.epub Converting C:\Users\PRASHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_0xsuv_\mvkvsi.epub to KPF Preparing book C:\Users\PRASHA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\calibre_0xsuv_\mvkvsi.epub for conversion Launching Kindle Previewer 3 (3.41.0) - CLI Unknown conversion error occurred -- Retrying Launching Kindle Previewer 3 (3.41.0) - CLI Unknown conversion error occurred -- Retrying Launching Kindle Previewer 3 (3.41.0) - CLI Unknown conversion error occurred -- Retrying Launching Kindle Previewer 3 (3.41.0) - CLI Unknown conversion error occurred -- Retrying Launching Kindle Previewer 3 (3.41.0) - CLI Unknown conversion error occurred -- Retrying Launching Kindle Previewer 3 (3.41.0) - CLI Last edited by pdurrant; 07-14-2020 at 10:30 AM. |
07-14-2020, 10:32 AM | #2 |
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See this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=118605
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07-14-2020, 10:52 AM | #3 |
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PDF is the worst format to convert from. Results are often disappointing. See the thread linked by pdurrant.
Conversion to KFX is not always possible. The bulk of the work is done by Amazon's Kindle Previewer and it only converts books that meet Amazon's guidelines for Enhanced Typesetting. To make that happen you would need to convert first to EPUB format and then use the calibre editor to fix whatever is preventing conversion to KFX. That would be especially difficult in this case since no specific error is reported by the Kindle Previewer. I suggest that you convert this book to AZW3 format instead. Don't be surprised if the formatting is rendered poorly due to the PDF source. |
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