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Old 11-03-2012, 02:05 PM   #1
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but I haven't been able to find information on this. If it exists, I would appreciate a link.

Basically what I need to do is:
  • Generate an EPUB from the command line
  • Incorporate a specified image as the cover
  • (This is the new part) Add to that cover the same information that gets added to the image in a default or generated cover.
This is part of an automated process so GUI solutions are not useful for me.

Any hints?

Thank you in advance.
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Old 11-03-2012, 02:59 PM   #2
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but I haven't been able to find information on this. If it exists, I would appreciate a link.

Basically what I need to do is:
  • Generate an EPUB from the command line
  • Incorporate a specified image as the cover
  • (This is the new part) Add to that cover the same information that gets added to the image in a default or generated cover.
This is part of an automated process so GUI solutions are not useful for me.

Any hints?

Thank you in advance.
look at the CLI (Comandline interface) in the online users guide.

ebook-meta has a way to set the cover into the DB (I think you want to populate the DB first, then call the convert)
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look at the CLI (Comandline interface) in the online users guide.

ebook-meta has a way to set the cover into the DB (I think you want to populate the DB first, then call the convert)
Hum... not really. I'm using ebook-convert to create the epub, and it gets created without even getting included into the database. If I do it later is for a different purpose, but my intention is to get all in one go, from the ebook-convert execution, without going through the GUI nor the library.
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Old 11-03-2012, 11:32 PM   #4
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1) Create your cover witht he specified information using either imagemagick or the CLI interface to the generate cover plugin.

2) Run ebook-convert with --cover
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