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Leseratte10 / acsm-calibre-plugin

Calibre plugin for ACSM->EPUB and ACSM->PDF conversion.
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Is it possible to open acsm URL link and download PDF directly using this plugin? #33

Closed biozzl closed 1 year ago

biozzl commented 1 year ago

Is it possible to open acsm URL link and download PDF directly using this plugin?

Leseratte10 commented 1 year ago

You mean entering the URL into Calibre and having Calibre download the ACSM and then the book? No, that's not supported; you first need to download the ACSM file through a browser or something, and then add the file as if it was a book.

Is there a particular use-case you would need that for?

biozzl commented 1 year ago

You mean entering the URL into Calibre and having Calibre download the ACSM and then the book? No, that's not supported; you first need to download the ACSM file through a browser or something, and then add the file as if it was a book.

Is there a particular use-case you would need that for?

Thank you for the reply, I used to download books from archive.org, it seems they only provide acsm URL link for the downloading. I feel it will be good if this function get supported in order to get rid of ADE

Leseratte10 commented 1 year ago

I fail to see why this requires any changes to the plugin, and I've downloaded multiple books from archive.org with this plugin before.

If you're on the Archive.org website, loaning a book, and they give you a link to an ACSM file, you just click on it and download the ACSM file just like you would do with any other book. You can even configure Calibre to auto-add all ACSM files your browser places into the "Downloads" folder.

Why is there a need to be able to copy-paste a download link into Calibre? I don't think ADE supports that either.

biozzl commented 1 year ago

I fail to see why this requires any changes to the plugin, and I've downloaded multiple books from archive.org with this plugin before.

If you're on the Archive.org website, loaning a book, and they give you a link to an ACSM file, you just click on it and download the ACSM file just like you would do with any other book. You can even configure Calibre to auto-add all ACSM files your browser places into the "Downloads" folder.

Why is there a need to be able to copy-paste a download link into Calibre? I don't think ADE supports that either.

Can guide me how to download via Calibre？ What I get is a "URLLink.acsm" which I failed to open in Calibre，but only works from ADE to download the PDF from “URLLink.acsm” then I added the PDF into Calibre manually. My intention is get rid of using ADE but using Calibre and plugin instead

One example of "URLLink.acsm" is giving here URLLink.zip

Leseratte10 commented 1 year ago

You take that URLLink.acsm file and add it into Calibre. Either by Drag-and-Drop, or by clicking "Add books" in the Calibre menu bar then opening the file.

If that doesn't work or fails to open, you will need to post a debug log of the import attempt - start Calibre in debug mode (Preferences -> Restart in debug mode), then add the ACSM file, then close Calibre, then post the log file that opens afterwards.

As for this exact ACSM file you posted, that loan was only valid until yesterday, 12:41 UTC; you won't be able to open that file now.

p1nkyy commented 1 year ago

Literally explained in the Readme.md in the front, maybe you're new to de-DRM-ing stuff I guess, but your question is pretty basic.

tjwalch commented 1 year ago

No it isn't. I can confirm that with Calibre version 6.4.0 and plugin version 0.0.16 opening a .ascm file with "Add books" or drag-and-drop doesn't download the book, it just adds the ascm-file as is.

Leseratte10 commented 1 year ago

I just installed Calibre 6.4.0 and plugin version 0.0.16 and everything is working fine. If it's not working for you, I'd need to see a log to figure out why. Did you sign in to your AdobeID or create an anonymous auth in the plugin settings?

Leseratte10 commented 1 year ago

Closing this issue as there's been no response for a while.

In general, this plugin obviously supports importing a downloaded URLLink.acsm file into Calibre (either with drag-and-drop, with the "Add books" dialog or with the auto add function), which is what I believe has been asked here. The plugin does not support downloading ACSM files from a HTTP URL (which is how I first misinterpreted this question / request).

If there's more issues with the plugin not turning an ACSM file into a book, please open a new bug report and attach a debug log.