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Old 03-09-2010, 01:32 PM   #1
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Disable Cover for Command Line ebook-convert
I'm using 'ebook-convert' from the command line to create .epub files without covers, and the '--no-default-epub-cover' switch works fine for this.

Now I need to make .mobi and some other formats, but Calibre fails:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 48, in
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/cli.py", line 250, in main
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py", line 852, in run
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/output.py", line 163, in convert
File "/home/kovid/build/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/rasterize.py", line 34, in __init__
Exception: Not OK to use Qt

This seems to be a known bug:

http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/1648
http://bugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/3932

With no fixes - which is fine for me, I don't need a cover -

So how do you disable cover creation for the other formats?
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Old 03-09-2010, 02:54 PM   #2
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you seem to be using a older version of calibre. upgrade to the latest and SVG rasterization (which is what it is complaining about will be optional)
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Old 03-11-2010, 10:11 AM   #3
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Upgrading solved the issue - thank you very much!
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:10 AM   #4
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I am using calibre 0.9.6. The --no-default-epub-cover option seems to work only for EPUB-Output, but not for MOBI.

This wouldn't be a big problem, but the viewer stretches the image, destroying its aspect ratio. Another strange thing is that it selects a tiny .png-file, which comes after a .jpg-file in the document. The .png-file is actually the last image in the document.

There is no option to prevent this (--preserve-cover-aspect-ratio works only for PDF). There's also no option to disable the automatic cover image at all, when converting EPUB to MOBI.

How can the stretching of the cover image be prevented? All other images are not stretched.

I tried a white pixel (1x1.gif) as first image... but ebook-convert still picks the .png-file at the end of the document.
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:52 AM   #5
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preserve cover aspect ratio works perfectly for epub.
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Old 02-21-2013, 08:56 AM   #6
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preserve cover aspect ratio works perfectly for epub.
Yes, but not for MOBI:

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I am using calibre 0.9.6. The --no-default-epub-cover option seems to work only for EPUB-Output, but not for MOBI.
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MOBI has no facility for specifying that cover aspect ratios should be preserved, something that should be fairly obvious from the fact that there is no option for it.
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Sorry, maybe this is the wrong place to ask this question. I just tried to convert an EPUB, edited with Sigil, to MOBI. Of course I read the manuals first.

However, epub-viewer seems to pick an arbitary cover file and even stretches it. There are two images, a Jpeg and a PNG. The Jpeg comes first, but it always picks the PNG.
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Remember that the calibre viewer does a simple conversion of non ePubs to ePub before displaying them.
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Originally Posted by Matsendrasana View Post
Sorry, maybe this is the wrong place to ask this question. I just tried to convert an EPUB, edited with Sigil, to MOBI. Of course I read the manuals first.

However, epub-viewer seems to pick an arbitary cover file and even stretches it. There are two images, a Jpeg and a PNG. The Jpeg comes first, but it always picks the PNG.
Since you used Sigil:
Did you use 'Add Semantic" and declare 'Cover' in 2 places?
Once on the image file name, and again on the HTML file that call that image.

If there is no Guide definition (what the Add Semantic creates), Calibre guess alphabetically
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