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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 folder and an "open e-book" (OEB) consisting of HTML files  is  written
       to  that  folder.  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 E-book 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.

       • ĮVEDIMO NUSTATYMAIIŠVEDIMO NUSTATYMAIIŠVAIZDAHEURISTIC PROCESSINGRASTI IR PAKEISTISTRUKTŪROS APTIKIMASTURINYSMETADUOMENYSDEBUG

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

       --input-profile
              Specify   the  input  profile.  The  input  profile  gives  the  conversion  system
              information on how to interpret various information  in  the  input  document.  For
              example  resolution  dependent  lengths  (i.e.  lengths  in  pixels).  Choices are:
              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. 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_scribe, kindle_voyage,  kobo,  msreader,  mobipocket,
              nook,  nook_color, nook_hd_plus, pocketbook_inkpad3, pocketbook_lux, pocketbook_hd,
              pocketbook_900, pocketbook_pro_912, galaxy, sony, sony300, sony900, sony-landscape,
              sonyt3, tablet

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

ĮVEDIMO NUSTATYMAI

       Options to control the processing of the input mobi file

       --input-encoding
              Specify  the  character  encoding  of  the  input document. If set this option will
              override any encoding declared by the  document  itself.  Particularly  useful  for
              documents  that  do  not  declare  an  encoding  or  that  have  erroneous encoding
              declarations.

IŠVEDIMO NUSTATYMAI

       Options to control the processing of the output 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-max-image-size
              The maximum image size (width x height). A value of none means use the screen  size
              from the output profile. A value of profile means no maximum size is specified. For
              example, a value of 100x200 will cause all images to be resized so that their width
              is  no  more than 100 pixels and their height is no more than 200 pixels. Note that
              this only affects the size of the actual image files themselves.  Any  given  image
              may  be  rendered at a different size depending on the styling applied to it in the
              document.

       --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  folder.  The
              contents of the folder 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
              Normally, if the input file has no cover and you don't specify one, a default cover
              is generated with the title, authors, etc. This option disables the  generation  of
              this cover.

       --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
              If specified, the output plugin will try to create output that is as human readable
              as possible. May not have any effect for some output plugins.

       --toc-title
              Title for any generated in-line table of contents.

IŠVAIZDA

       Options to control the look and feel of the output

       --asciiize
              Transliterate Unicode characters to an ASCII representation. Use with care  because
              this  will  replace  Unicode  characters  with  ASCII. For instance it will replace
              "Pelé"  with  "Pele".  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
              Disable all rescaling of font sizes.

       --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
              Either the path to a CSS stylesheet or raw CSS. This CSS will be  appended  to  the
              style rules from the source file, so it can be used to override those rules.

       --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
              Mapping from  CSS  font  names  to  font  sizes  in  pts.  An  example  setting  is
              12,12,14,16,18,20,22,24. These are the mappings for the sizes xx-small to xx-large,
              with the final size being for huge fonts. The font rescaling algorithm  uses  these
              sizes  to intelligently rescale fonts. The default is to use a mapping based on the
              output profile you chose.

       --insert-blank-line
              Insert a blank line between paragraphs. Will not work if the source file  does  not
              use paragraphs (<p> or <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
              Some badly designed documents use tables to control the layout of text on the page.
              When converted these documents often have text that runs off  the  page  and  other
              artifacts. This option will extract the content from the tables and present it in a
              linear fashion.

       --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
              Remove  spacing  between  paragraphs.  Also  sets an indent on paragraphs of 1.5em.
              Spacing removal will not work if the source file does not use  paragraphs  (<p>  or
              <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.

       --transform-html-rules
              Path to a file containing rules to transform the HTML 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 HTML" 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.

RASTI IR PAKEISTI

       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.

STRUKTŪROS APTIKIMAS

       Control auto-detection of document structure.

       --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
              Specify  how  to  mark  detected  chapters. A value of "pagebreak" will insert page
              breaks before chapters. A value of "rule" will insert a  line  before  chapters.  A
              value  of  "none"  will disable chapter marking and a value of "both" will use both
              page breaks and lines to mark chapters.

       --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
              Use the cover detected from the source file in preference to the specified cover.

       --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.

TURINYS

       Control  the  automatic  generation of a Table of Contents. By default, if the source file
       has a Table of Contents, it will be used in preference to the automatically generated one.

       --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
              Maximum number of links to insert into the TOC. Set to 0 to  disable.  Default  is:
              50.  Links  are only added to the TOC if less than the threshold number of chapters
              were detected.

       --no-chapters-in-toc
              Don't add auto-detected chapters to the Table of Contents.

       --toc-filter
              Remove entries from the Table of Contents whose titles match the specified  regular
              expression. Matching entries and all their children are removed.

       --toc-threshold
              If  fewer  than  this  number  of chapters is detected, then links are added to the
              Table of Contents. Default: 6

       --use-auto-toc
              Normally, if the source file already has  a  Table  of  Contents,  it  is  used  in
              preference  to  the auto-generated one. With this option, the auto-generated one is
              always used.

METADUOMENYS

       Options to set metadata in the output

       --author-sort
              String to be used when sorting by author.

       --authors
              Set the authors. Multiple authors should be separated by ampersands.

       --book-producer
              Nustatyti knygos leidėją.

       --comments
              Set the e-book description.

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

       --isbn Nustatyti šios knygos ISBN.

       --language
              Nustatyti kalbą.

       --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
              Set the rating. Should be a number between 1 and 5.

       --read-metadata-from-opf, --from-opf, -m
              Read  metadata  from  the  specified  OPF  file.  Metadata read from this file will
              override any metadata in the source file.

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

       --series-index
              Set the index of the book in this series.

       --tags Set the tags for the book. Should be a comma separated list.

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

       --title
              Set the title.

       --title-sort
              The version of the title to be used for sorting.

DEBUG

       Options to help with debugging the conversion

       --debug-pipeline, -d
              Save the output from different stages of the conversion pipeline to  the  specified
              folder.  Useful if you are unsure at which stage of the conversion process a bug is
              occurring.

       --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

COPYRIGHT

       Kovid Goyal