EBOOK-CONVERT(1)

NAME
ebook-convert - ebook-convert

ebook-convert input_file output_file [options]

Convert an e-book from one format to another.

input_file is the input and output_file is the output. Both must be specified as the first two arguments to the command.

The output e-book format is guessed from the file extension of output_file. output_file can also be of the special format .EXT where EXT is the output file extension. In this case, the name of the output file is derived from the name of the input file. Note that the filenames must not start with a hyphen. Finally, if output_file has no extension, then it is treated as a directory and an "open e-book" (OEB) consisting of HTML files is written to that directory. These files are the files that would normally have been passed to the output plugin.

After specifying the input and output file you can customize the conversion by specifying various options. The available options depend on the input and output file types. To get help on them specify the input and output file and then use the -h option.

For full documentation of the conversion system see conversion

Whenever you pass arguments to ebook-convert that have spaces in them, enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

The options and default values for the options change depending on both the input and output formats, so you should always check with:

ebook-convert myfile.input_format myfile.output_format -h

Below are the options that are common to all conversion, followed by the options specific to every input and output format.

•   EINGABE EINSTELLUNGEN

•   AUSGABE EINSTELLUNGEN

•   LOOK AND FEEL

•   HEURISTIC PROCESSING

•   SEARCH AND REPLACE

•   STRUCTURE DETECTION

•   TABLE OF CONTENTS

•   METADATA

•   DEBUG

--help, -h
    show this help message and exit

--input-profile
    Geben Sie das Eingabe Profil an. Das Eingabe Profil schreibt der Konvertierung vor, wie die verschiedenen Informationen aus dem Eingabe Dokument zu interpretieren sind. Zum Beispiel auflösungsabhängige Längen (z.B. Längen in Punkt). Wählbar ist:cybookg3, cybook_opus, default, hanlinv3, hanlinv5, illiad, irexdr1000, irexdr800, kindle, msreader, mobipocket, nook, sony, sony300, sony900

--list-recipes
    List builtin recipe names. You can create an e-book from a builtin recipe like this: ebook-convert "Recipe Name.recipe" output.epub

--output-profile
    Specify the output profile. The output profile tells the conversion system how to optimize the created document for the specified device (such as by resizing images for the device screen size). In some cases, an output profile can be used to optimize the output for a particular device, but this is rarely necessary. Choices are:cybookg3, cybook_opus, default, generic_eink, generic_eink_hd, generic_eink_large, hanlinv3, hanlinv5, illiad, ipad, ipad3, irexdr1000, irexdr800, jetbook5, kindle, kindle_dx, kindle_fire, kindle_oasis, kindle_pw, kindle_pw3, kindle_voyage, kobo, msreader, mobipocket, nook, nook_color, nook_hd_plus, pocketbook_900, pocketbook_pro_912, galaxy, sony, sony300, sony900, sony-landscape, sonyt3, tablet

--version
    show program's version number and exit

EINGABE EINSTELLUNGEN

Einstellungen zur Kontrolle der Verabeitung der Eingabe-Datei mobi

--input-encoding
    Geben Sie die Zeichenkodierung des Eingabe Dokuments an. Falls verwendet, werden alle im Dokument angegebenen Kodierungen überschrieben. Teilweise hilfreich bei Dokumenten, die keine oder eine fehlerhafte Encodierung angegeben haben.

AUSGABE EINSTELLUNGEN

Einstellungen zur Kontrolle der Verarbeitung der Ausgabe epub

--dont-split-on-page-breaks
    Turn off splitting at page breaks. Normally, input files are automatically split at every page break into two files. This gives an output e-book that can be parsed faster and with less resources. However, splitting is slow and if your source file contains a very large number of page breaks, you should turn off splitting on page breaks.

--epub-flatten
    This option is needed only if you intend to use the EPUB with FBReaderJ. It will flatten the file system inside the EPUB, putting all files into the top level.

--epub-inline-toc
    Insert an inline Table of Contents that will appear as part of the main book content.

--epub-toc-at-end
    Put the inserted inline Table of Contents at the end of the book instead of the start.

--epub-version
    The version of the EPUB file to generate. EPUB 2 is the most widely compatible, only use EPUB 3 if you know you actually need it.

--extract-to
    Extract the contents of the generated EPUB file to the specified directory. The contents of the directory are first deleted, so be careful.

--flow-size
    Split all HTML files larger than this size (in KB). This is necessary as most EPUB readers cannot handle large file sizes. The default of 260KB is the size required for Adobe Digital Editions. Set to 0 to disable size based splitting.

--no-default-epub-cover
    Normalerweise wird, falls die Eingabe Datei kein Umschlagbild hat und Sie keines angeben, ein voreingestelltes Umschlagbild mit Titel, Autoren, usw. erstellt. Diese Einstellung schaltet die Erstellung dieses Umschlagbildes aus.

--no-svg-cover
    Do not use SVG for the book cover. Use this option if your EPUB is going to be used on a device that does not support SVG, like the iPhone or the JetBook Lite. Without this option, such devices will display the cover as a blank page.

--preserve-cover-aspect-ratio
    When using an SVG cover, this option will cause the cover to scale to cover the available screen area, but still preserve its aspect ratio (ratio of width to height). That means there may be white borders at the sides or top and bottom of the image, but the image will never be distorted. Without this option the image may be slightly distorted, but there will be no borders.

--pretty-print
    Falls angegeben, versucht das Ausgabe-Plugin eine möglichst menschlich lesbare Ausgabe zu erzeugen. Kann für manche Ausgabe-Plugins nichts bewirken.

--toc-title
    Titel für alle in den Büchern erstellten Inhaltsverzeichnisse

LOOK AND FEEL

Einstellungen zur Kontrolle des Layouts der Ausgabe

--asciiize
    Transliterate unicode characters to an ASCII representation. Use with care because this will replace unicode characters with ASCII. For instance it will replace "Михаил Горбачёв" with "Mikhail Gorbachiov". Also, note that in cases where there are multiple representations of a character (characters shared by Chinese and Japanese for instance) the representation based on the current calibre interface language will be used.

--base-font-size
    The base font size in pts. All font sizes in the produced book will be rescaled based on this size. By choosing a larger size you can make the fonts in the output bigger and vice versa. By default, when the value is zero, the base font size is chosen based on the output profile you chose.

--change-justification
    Change text justification. A value of "left" converts all justified text in the source to left aligned (i.e. unjustified) text. A value of "justify" converts all unjustified text to justified. A value of "original" (the default) does not change justification in the source file. Note that only some output formats support justification.

--disable-font-rescaling
    Skalierung von Schriftgrößen ausschalten.

--embed-all-fonts
    Embed every font that is referenced in the input document but not already embedded. This will search your system for the fonts, and if found, they will be embedded. Embedding will only work if the format you are converting to supports embedded fonts, such as EPUB, AZW3, DOCX or PDF. Please ensure that you have the proper license for embedding the fonts used in this document.

--embed-font-family
    Embed the specified font family into the book. This specifies the "base" font used for the book. If the input document specifies its own fonts, they may override this base font. You can use the filter style information option to remove fonts from the input document. Note that font embedding only works with some output formats, principally EPUB, AZW3 and DOCX.

--expand-css
    By default, calibre will use the shorthand form for various CSS properties such as margin, padding, border, etc. This option will cause it to use the full expanded form instead. Note that CSS is always expanded when generating EPUB files with the output profile set to one of the Nook profiles as the Nook cannot handle shorthand CSS.

--extra-css
    Entweder der Pfad zu einem CSS Stylesheet oder original CSS. Dieses CSS wird an die Stilregeln der Ursprungsdatei angehängt, so dass es zum Überschreiben dieser Regeln verwendet werden kann.

--filter-css
    A comma separated list of CSS properties that will be removed from all CSS style rules. This is useful if the presence of some style information prevents it from being overridden on your device. For example: font-family,color,margin-left,margin-right

--font-size-mapping
    Zuordnung von CSS Schriftnamen zu Schriftgrößen in Punkt. Eine Beispieleinstellung ist 12,12,14,16,18,20,22,24. Dies sind die Zuordnungen für die Größen xx-small bis xx-large mit der letzten Größe für riesige Schriften. Der Schriftskalierungs-Algorithmus verwendet diese Größen für die intelligente Skalierung von Schriften. Voreinstellung ist die Verwendung einer Zuordnung auf der Grundlage des gewählten Ausgabe Profils.

--insert-blank-line
    Leerzeile zwischen Paragraphen einfügen. Funktioniert nur, wenn die Quelldatei Paragraphen verwendet (<p> oder <div> Tags).

--insert-blank-line-size
    Set the height of the inserted blank lines (in em). The height of the lines between paragraphs will be twice the value set here.

--keep-ligatures
    Preserve ligatures present in the input document. A ligature is a special rendering of a pair of characters like ff, fi, fl et cetera. Most readers do not have support for ligatures in their default fonts, so they are unlikely to render correctly. By default, calibre will turn a ligature into the corresponding pair of normal characters. This option will preserve them instead.

--line-height
    The line height in pts. Controls spacing between consecutive lines of text. Only applies to elements that do not define their own line height. In most cases, the minimum line height option is more useful. By default no line height manipulation is performed.

--linearize-tables
    Einige schlecht gestaltete Dokumente verwenden Tabellen für das Layout des Textes auf der Seite. Bei der Konvertierung entstehen dann häufig unvollständige Textstellen und andere Artefakte. Diese Einstellung extrahiert den Inhalt von Tabellen und gibt ihn linear wieder.

--margin-bottom
    Set the bottom margin in pts. Default is 5.0. Setting this to less than zero will cause no margin to be set (the margin setting in the original document will be preserved). Note: Page oriented formats such as PDF and DOCX have their own margin settings that take precedence.

--margin-left
    Set the left margin in pts. Default is 5.0. Setting this to less than zero will cause no margin to be set (the margin setting in the original document will be preserved). Note: Page oriented formats such as PDF and DOCX have their own margin settings that take precedence.

--margin-right
    Set the right margin in pts. Default is 5.0. Setting this to less than zero will cause no margin to be set (the margin setting in the original document will be preserved). Note: Page oriented formats such as PDF and DOCX have their own margin settings that take precedence.

--margin-top
    Set the top margin in pts. Default is 5.0. Setting this to less than zero will cause no margin to be set (the margin setting in the original document will be preserved). Note: Page oriented formats such as PDF and DOCX have their own margin settings that take precedence.

--minimum-line-height
    The minimum line height, as a percentage of the element's calculated font size. calibre will ensure that every element has a line height of at least this setting, irrespective of what the input document specifies. Set to zero to disable. Default is 120%. Use this setting in preference to the direct line height specification, unless you know what you are doing. For example, you can achieve "double spaced" text by setting this to 240.

--remove-paragraph-spacing
    Abstand zwischen Paragraphen entfernen. Fügt einen Zeileneinzug bei Paragraphen von 1,5 em ein. Die Entfernung des Abstands funktioniert nur bei Quelldateien, die Paragraphen verwenden (<p> oder <div> Tags).

--remove-paragraph-spacing-indent-size
    When calibre removes blank lines between paragraphs, it automatically sets a paragraph indent, to ensure that paragraphs can be easily distinguished. This option controls the width of that indent (in em). If you set this value negative, then the indent specified in the input document is used, that is, calibre does not change the indentation.

--smarten-punctuation
    Convert plain quotes, dashes and ellipsis to their typographically correct equivalents. For details, see https://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants

--subset-embedded-fonts
    Subset all embedded fonts. Every embedded font is reduced to contain only the glyphs used in this document. This decreases the size of the font files. Useful if you are embedding a particularly large font with lots of unused glyphs.

--transform-css-rules
    Path to a file containing rules to transform the CSS styles in this book. The easiest way to create such a file is to use the wizard for creating rules in the calibre GUI. Access it in the "Look & feel->Transform styles" section of the conversion dialog. Once you create the rules, you can use the "Export" button to save them to a file.

--unsmarten-punctuation
    Convert fancy quotes, dashes and ellipsis to their plain equivalents.

HEURISTIC PROCESSING

Modify the document text and structure using common patterns. Disabled by default. Use --enable-heuristics to enable. Individual actions can be disabled with the --disable-* options.

--disable-dehyphenate
    Analyze hyphenated words throughout the document. The document itself is used as a dictionary to determine whether hyphens should be retained or removed.

--disable-delete-blank-paragraphs
    Remove empty paragraphs from the document when they exist between every other paragraph

--disable-fix-indents
    Turn indentation created from multiple non-breaking space entities into CSS indents.

--disable-format-scene-breaks
    Left aligned scene break markers are center aligned. Replace soft scene breaks that use multiple blank lines with horizontal rules.

--disable-italicize-common-cases
    Look for common words and patterns that denote italics and italicize them.

--disable-markup-chapter-headings
    Detect unformatted chapter headings and sub headings. Change them to h2 and h3 tags. This setting will not create a TOC, but can be used in conjunction with structure detection to create one.

--disable-renumber-headings
    Looks for occurrences of sequential <h1> or <h2> tags. The tags are renumbered to prevent splitting in the middle of chapter headings.

--disable-unwrap-lines
    Unwrap lines using punctuation and other formatting clues.

--enable-heuristics
    Enable heuristic processing. This option must be set for any heuristic processing to take place.

--html-unwrap-factor
    Scale used to determine the length at which a line should be unwrapped. Valid values are a decimal between 0 and 1. The default is 0.4, just below the median line length. If only a few lines in the document require unwrapping this value should be reduced

--replace-scene-breaks
    Replace scene breaks with the specified text. By default, the text from the input document is used.

SEARCH AND REPLACE

Modify the document text and structure using user defined patterns.

--search-replace
    Path to a file containing search and replace regular expressions. The file must contain alternating lines of regular expression followed by replacement pattern (which can be an empty line). The regular expression must be in the Python regex syntax and the file must be UTF-8 encoded.

--sr1-replace
    Replacement to replace the text found with sr1-search.

--sr1-search
    Search pattern (regular expression) to be replaced with sr1-replace.

--sr2-replace
    Replacement to replace the text found with sr2-search.

--sr2-search
    Search pattern (regular expression) to be replaced with sr2-replace.

--sr3-replace
    Replacement to replace the text found with sr3-search.

--sr3-search
    Search pattern (regular expression) to be replaced with sr3-replace.

STRUCTURE DETECTION

Kontrolle der automatischen Erkennung der Dokumentstruktur.

--chapter
    An XPath expression to detect chapter titles. The default is to consider <h1> or <h2> tags that contain the words "chapter", "book", "section", "prologue", "epilogue" or "part" as chapter titles as well as any tags that have class="chapter". The expression used must evaluate to a list of elements. To disable chapter detection, use the expression "/". See the XPath Tutorial in the calibre User Manual for further help on using this feature.

--chapter-mark
    Geben Sie an, wie erkannte Kapitel gekennzeichnet werden sollen. Der Wert "pagebreak" fügt Seitenumbrüche vor Kapiteln ein. Der Wert "rule" fügt eine Linie vor Kapiteln ein. Der Wert "none" schaltet die Kapitelmarkierung aus und der Wert "both" verwendet sowohl Seitenumbrüche als auch Linien zur Kapitelmarkierung.

--disable-remove-fake-margins
    Some documents specify page margins by specifying a left and right margin on each individual paragraph. calibre will try to detect and remove these margins. Sometimes, this can cause the removal of margins that should not have been removed. In this case you can disable the removal.

--insert-metadata
    Insert the book metadata at the start of the book. This is useful if your e-book reader does not support displaying/searching metadata directly.

--page-breaks-before
    An XPath expression. Page breaks are inserted before the specified elements. To disable use the expression: /

--prefer-metadata-cover
    Verwendet bevorzugt das aus der Ursprungsdatei gewonnene Umschlagbild anstatt des angegebenen Umschlagbildes.

--remove-first-image
    Remove the first image from the input e-book. Useful if the input document has a cover image that is not identified as a cover. In this case, if you set a cover in calibre, the output document will end up with two cover images if you do not specify this option.

--start-reading-at
    An XPath expression to detect the location in the document at which to start reading. Some e-book reading programs (most prominently the Kindle) use this location as the position at which to open the book. See the XPath tutorial in the calibre User Manual for further help using this feature.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Kontrolle der automatischen Erstellung eines Inhaltsverzeichnisses. Laut Voreinstellung wird, falls die Ursprungsdatein ein Inhaltsverzeichnis hat, dieses verwendet anstatt des automatisch erstellten.

--duplicate-links-in-toc
    When creating a TOC from links in the input document, allow duplicate entries, i.e. allow more than one entry with the same text, provided that they point to a different location.

--level1-toc
    XPath expression that specifies all tags that should be added to the Table of Contents at level one. If this is specified, it takes precedence over other forms of auto-detection. See the XPath Tutorial in the calibre User Manual for examples.

--level2-toc
    XPath expression that specifies all tags that should be added to the Table of Contents at level two. Each entry is added under the previous level one entry. See the XPath Tutorial in the calibre User Manual for examples.

--level3-toc
    XPath expression that specifies all tags that should be added to the Table of Contents at level three. Each entry is added under the previous level two entry. See the XPath Tutorial in the calibre User Manual for examples.

--max-toc-links
    Höchstzahl der Verknüpfungen, die in das Inhaltsverzeichnis eingefügt werden. Zum Ausschalten auf 0 setzen. Voreinstellung ist: 50. Verknüpfungen werden nur dann zum Inhaltsverzeichnis hinzugefügt, wenn weniger Kapitel als in der Schwellenzahl angegeben erkannt werden.

--no-chapters-in-toc
    Automatisch erkannte Kapitel nicht zum Inhaltsverzeichnis hinzufügen

--toc-filter
    Einträge vom Inhaltsverzeichnis entfernen, deren Titel dem regulären Ausdruck entsprechen. Entsprechende Einträge und deren untergeordnete Einträge werden entfernt.

--toc-threshold
    Wurden weniger Kapitel als hier angegeben erkannt, werden Verknüpfungen zum Inhaltsverzeichnis hinzugefügt. Voreinstellung: 6

--use-auto-toc
    Normalerweise wird - soweit vorhanden - das Inhaltsverzeichnis der Ursprungsdatei verwendet anstatt des automatisch erstellten. Mit dieser Einstellung wird immer das automatisch erstellte verwendet.

METADATA

Einstellungen zum Setzen von Metadaten in der Ausgabe

--author-sort
    Zeichenfolge, die für die Sortierung nach Autor verwendet werden soll.

--authors
    Geben Sie den Autor an. Mehrere Autoren sollten durch UND-Zeichen getrennt angegeben werden.

--book-producer
    Geben Sie den Hersteller des Buches an.

--comments
    Set the e-book description.

--cover
    Set the cover to the specified file or URL

--isbn
    Geben Sie die ISBN des Buches an.

--language
    Geben Sie die Sprache an.

--pubdate
    Set the publication date (assumed to be in the local timezone, unless the timezone is explicitly specified)

--publisher
    Set the e-book publisher.

--rating
    Geben Sie die Bewertung an. Dies sollte eine Zahl zwischen 1 und 5 sein.

--read-metadata-from-opf, --from-opf, -m
    Lese Metadaten aus angegebener OPF Datei. Die aus dieser Datei gelesenen Metadaten überschreiben jegliche Metadaten in der Ursprungsdatei.

--series
    Set the series this e-book belongs to.

--series-index
    Geben Sie den Index des Buches in dieser Reihe an.

--tags
    Geben Sie die Etiketten für das Buch an. Durch Kommata getrennte Liste.

--timestamp
    Set the book timestamp (no longer used anywhere)

--title
    Geben Sie den Titel an.

--title-sort
    Titel, der für die Sortierung verwendet werden soll.

DEBUG

Einstellungen zur Hilfe mit der Fehlersuche bei der Konvertierung

--debug-pipeline, -d
    Speichert die Ausgabe der verschiedenen Ebenen des Konvertierungsprozesses in das angegebene Verzeichnis. Hilfreich, wenn Sie nicht sicher sind, auf welcher Ebene des Konvertierungsprozesses ein Fehler auftritt.

--verbose, -v
    Level of verbosity. Specify multiple times for greater verbosity. Specifying it twice will result in full verbosity, once medium verbosity and zero times least verbosity.

AUTHOR
Kovid Goyal

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