Markdown converter produces garbled output on large files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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calibre |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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John Schember |
Bug Description
When converting a TXT file with Markdown, Large files get additional text added.
and example
text input of
‘So was the driver,’ chipped in Sarah. ‘He tried to kill us.’ ‘Good gracious\! Whatever for?’
Gives EPUB of
So was the driver,’ chipped in Sarah. ‘He tried to kill us.’ ‘Good graciousklzzwxh
Once this has started happening in a file, it continues and gets worse (more occurrences). The number 10000, increments on each new occurrence.
the job conversion output is as follows, you can even see the chapter headings also get corrupted.
This can be easily reproduced with an existing (working) text file, if you make the file large (copy and paste the text until the file is over over 1M in size.
Changed in calibre: | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
This is the conversion job details