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[PATCH] gnu: calibre: Fix PDF to EPUB conversion.

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Message #14 received at 33868 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>, 33868 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#33868] [PATCH] gnu: calibre: Fix PDF to EPUB conversion.
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:43:09 -0500

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On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 12:19:54AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com> 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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