07-15-2010, 12:57 PM | #1 | |
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Auto-creation of cover image on .epub to .mobi conversion
Apologies for creating a new thread so soon on the heels of my last one, but I've hit another strange snag in my .epub to .mobi conversion adventures. I'm sure I must be missing something simple, but I can't figure this one out!
All of my .epub files begin with a text-only cover page that has title, author, and series information. This code shows up just fine as an .epub in both Sigil and Calibre's own e-book viewer... but sometimes after conversion, the first page of the new .mobi file ends up with shrunken and distorted text instead, as if it's been specified as a cover image (despite having no cover selected in the Cover View on the main metadata page). Oddly, this seems to only be happening to about one out of every three of my converted books, so the problem must be something I've done wrong in the conversion settings, not the .epub file itself. When I experimented and did specify a cover for the book, the old text-only cover page was pushed to the very back of the .mobi file, but the text headings did display correctly. When I took away the cover, restarted Calibre, and tried again with no cover specified, the same text-as-cover-image problem returned. Here's the code from the most recent attempt; I think the line of interest is probably the "Spine-referenced file 'OEBPS/Text/TitlePage.xhtml' not in spine", but I don't know what that means. Quote:
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07-16-2010, 03:09 AM | #2 |
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depending on how the metadata in the epub is setup calibre will try to render the frist page of the epub as a cover when no cover is specified.
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07-16-2010, 09:03 AM | #3 |
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I see; thank you for the clarification. I'd more or less decided to stop fighting the flow and just start creating cover images rather than messing with headings-based covers, but this confirms it for me. Back to work, I guess!
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10-28-2010, 07:36 AM | #4 | |
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I nedd some infomation
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This is Debasish from DCPL can you give me some Idea about the auto epub convertion? If I have a bulk pdf book in multilingual then I want to convert through any automated process PDF-ePUB. Please suggest me. |
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02-10-2012, 05:31 PM | #5 |
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if your TitlePage.xhtml is not declared linear in the spine then the file will not display on your eReader.
In the OPF insert: <itemref idref="" linear="yes" /> with the idref the same as id where you declared TitlePage.xhtml in the manifest. |
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