Thread: [GUI Plugin] Generate Cover
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:21 PM   #256
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Originally Posted by Dyspeptica View Post
But I really want an automated method of creation including the cover. It looks like I may get asked to produce *individualized* copies of various books. I want the cover to show the title etc. but I may need to insert individualized dedications, and photos (gifs). Doing that is not difficult, while still in the html file stage, but the cover conversion is a sticky wicket. Would be nice!
If that's the case, I think you are beyond calibre. But, automating this outside of calibre wouldn't be to hard.

As an epub is just a zip file, replacing a file is as simple as running a zip command with the appropriate replace option. For this, I think I would extract the epub into a folder and then create a batch file that took the individualized files, copied them to the extracted epub folder and then zipped this folder up and named it appropriately.
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