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When you run chm2pdf, you will see the command-line invocation it uses for
htmldoc.
This is usually a huge line with all filenames and options to be passed to
htmldoc.
You could try to copy it and try it yourself. If it still produces such a TOC,
then
it is probably a problem of htmldoc.
On the other side, chm2pdf runs quite a few corrections on the HTML files
before it
passes them to htmldoc to get the PDF. Maybe one of those corrections causes the
problem. (The general procedure is: chm2pdf extracts the HTML files from the
CHM and
puts them in /tmp/chm2pdf/orig/basename-of-file-to-convert. It corrects the HTML
files and puts the corrected versions in
/tmp/chm2pdf/work/basename-of-file-to-convert. It then passes all HTML files
along
with the user-specified options etc. to htmldoc to get the PDF from the HTML
collection).
Without an example .chm file it is hard to investigate further.
Original comment by chriskar...@googlemail.com
on 5 May 2008 at 3:42
I believe I've already tried that and the output was the same. I am not sure at
this
point though as I am on Windows and rather busy.
What is rather strange about this is that there actually are two TOCs, one
which is
correct, provided that the CHM had one as an extra page, and one which seems to
be
generated -- I'm not sure what chm2pdf does behind the scenes. Looking into the
files
int /tmp/chm2pdf/work/filename the HTML contained in the files defines both
TOCs, I
haven't however taken a look into the orig/ folder to be honest.
This problem seems to manifest itself in all CHM files I have tried to convert,
they
are however e-books bought online and I am not inclined to upload any of them
as a
sample. I will try to obtain a file with no restrictions in distribution and
upload
it in CHM form and the corresponding converted PDF.
Original comment by sugor...@gmail.com
on 5 May 2008 at 4:40
Please see if it works with htmldoc or not. If it's an htmldoc problem, there's
nothing we can do.
Original comment by devicera...@gmail.com
on 5 May 2008 at 11:14
You passed a CHM that contains errors/problems. See
http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10965
To correct the problem, you should use the --extract-only and --dontextract
options
(not together, but in sequence!) as outlined in
http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10969
http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10275
to correct the CHM, then pass the corrected CHM to chm2pdf.
Original comment by chriskar...@googlemail.com
on 25 Nov 2008 at 10:41
I have been having the same problem with one of the eBooks I am trying to
convert. I
did some digging and discovered an issue with HTMLDOC and not chm2pdf. However,
there
is a way to fix this.
Most toc.html files use html tables to hold the table of contents. What I have
seen
though is that if the table that contains the "toc" does not specify the "width"
attribute, then HTMLDOC messes up the layout of rows and columns as described by
sugoruyo.
To fix this find the offending <table> and make sure it has an attribute
width="100%". Use the --extract-only option and fix the html file in
/tmp/chm2pdf/work/<chm_file_name>/ directory. The run chm2pdf again with
--dontextract option and that will give you the corrected toc.
Original comment by gupta.pa...@gmail.com
on 6 May 2010 at 4:15
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
sugor...@gmail.com
on 4 Apr 2008 at 8:56