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Old 06-01-2012, 07:15 PM   #262
Dyspeptica
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Thanks for the updates. This is awesomely close.

But I am still having problems. I have just updated 'generate' to 1.5.4 and 'modify ePub' to 1.2.1 so I have the latest and greatest.

I have been using --no-default-epub-cover on the command line with ebook-converter. I get a blank background 'cover/first page' with a rectangular section near the top, with the title and publisher. The rectangular area is in a slightly darker shade than the background. I call this the 'generic' cover.

Actual cover generation is fine. I then run 'modify-epub' and select 'insert or replace cover' and the newly generated cover image is inserted, and the old one becomes page 2.

So instead, I tried running 'modify' with 'remove existing cover' *before* generating the cover, and running modify again to insert. The existing cover was not removed (first or at all).

Before, when I re-converted, the generic cover was deleted. So things are very close, but not quite right. There must be a little bug somewhere which treats the generic cover as not being a cover.

Still playing with all this, so re-converting is not a problem.
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