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[bug#33868] [PATCH] gnu: calibre: Fix PDF to EPUB conversion.
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
[bug#33868] [PATCH] gnu: calibre: Fix PDF to EPUB conversion. |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:43:09 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.11.0 (2018-11-25) |
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 12:19:54AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > When trying to convert a PDF to EPUB, the following error occurs:
> >
> > File
> > "/gnu/store/kz6bgqw9z7akj11zh20wkx14cgq0s3n2-calibre-3.35.0/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/pdf/pdftohtml.py",
> > line 76, in pdftohtml
> > _('Could not find pdftohtml, check it is in your PATH'))
> >
> > Move poppler which provides pdftohtml from inputs to propagated-inputs to
> > fix it.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/ebook.scm (calibre)[inputs]: Move poppler from here ...
> > [propagated-inputs]: ... to here.
>
> An less intrusive solution would be to substitute the absolute path to
> 'pdf2html' in a build step. I.e.:
>
> (substitute* "lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/pdf/pdftohtml.py"
> (("PDFTOHTML = \"pdftohtml\"")
> (string-append "PDFTOHTML = \"" (assoc-ref inputs "poppler")
> "/bin/pdftohtml\"")))
>
> Either approach is fine by me, but please leave a comment about why
> Poppler is propagated if you go that route :-)
I think this substitution is the better solution.
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