Re: HTML → EPUB: Either "Out of memory" or "openBinaryFile: invalid argument (Invalid argument)"

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

What pandoc version are you running on the linux box?
This works fine for me.


Heck Lennon <frdtheman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Since I had a Linux host available, I went around that issue with Windows 
> and shell expansion.
>
> pandoc -f html -t epub3 -o output.epub input.html
>
>
> pandoc ran successfully (no error message), but the EPUB can't be opened in 
> a Windows GUI application that supports EPUB files ("Error loading 
> file.epub"). Likewise, I can't open the file after changing its extension 
> from EPUB to ZIP.
>
> Here's the input files (HTML + PNGs):
>
> https://we.tl/t-5EeGXML1rb
>
> Do I need extra options in the command line?
>
> Le mercredi 22 avril 2020 11:55:49 UTC+2, Heck Lennon a écrit :
>>
>> Thanks everyone for the infos!
>>
>> Le mercredi 22 avril 2020 01:25:21 UTC+2, Kolen Cheung a écrit :
>>>
>>> A side note, since your goal is to convert from PDF to ePub, you probably 
>>> will have better results using other tools. Eg I know it can be converted 
>>> to docx, and then from docx to ePub. There may he tool that can help you 
>>> convert that directly too. Essentially for the tools you choose, you’d want 
>>> to choose one preserving most information. And since pandoc focuses many on 
>>> the structure of the document, much other information would be lost. The 
>>> choice of tool also depends on which ones you’re comfortable with, Eg the 
>>> PDF to docx I mentioned probably can be done by Adobe Acrobat and MS Word. 
>>> But they are proprietary and difficult to run from the command line. 
>>>
>>> In your case, since you have a tool preconverted them to html already, 
>>> html to ePub can be done better by some other engines (since the 2 are 
>>> closely related.) may be you can try Calibre which also have a cli.
>>
>>
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