Cannot convert to pdf or epub on Windows

[jakeecolution]

I'm using: Node v4.3 (LTS) Win7 and I get this error:

gitbook pdf ./FOLDER ./PDFFOLDER
Error: Command failed: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /s /c "ebook-convert C:\cygwin64\tmp\tmp-142762n41q40\SUMMARY.html C:\cygwin64\tmp\tmp-142762n41q40\index.pdf 
 ..... (Config stuff I don't want to be shown) ...
'ebook-convert' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I've tried install ebook-convert as a global node package and I have, but it always installs in as a sub directory of the npm binaries PREFIX/node_modules/ebook-convert/

Any idea what is wrong?

[Serhioromano]

Looks like issue gitbookIO/gitbook#1516

[kataras]

@jakeecolution download this https://calibre-ebook.com/download_windows64 and it will work like charm.

Sincerely, Gerasimos Maropoulos, author of iris

[bytejutsu]

@kataras Thank you for your solution, it indeed works. However, in my case installing Calibre alone didn't solve the problem of Windows not recognizing the ebook-convert command, in addition to that I had to add the Calibre installation path to the PATH environment variable. So in Windows under Environment Variables -> Path -> Edit -> New and then I had to put the installation Path of Calibre which is in my case and by default C:\Program Files\Calibre2 so that Windows has direct access to the ebook-convert.exe. Then I had to restart not only my command line terminal but also my IDE first.