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Old 06-23-2010, 07:27 AM   #16
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Can you post one of these epub files.
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Old 06-23-2010, 08:56 AM   #17
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Can you post one of these epub files.
One of mine? Hmm, they are scans that I made of paperbacks I own, so I might get in trouble for that. I could try to recreate the problem with a public domain book...might have time tonight.
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Old 06-23-2010, 08:25 PM   #18
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No luck so far - I downloaded a public domain book (plain text) from Proj. Gutenberg, converted to .doc and then a filtered web page to approximate my normal post-OCR procedure, brought it into Calibre, stuck a random photo (.jpg) from my hard drive on it as a cover (couldn't d/l one, it wanted to search by ISBN I think), made sure that box was checked (it already was), converted to .epub, and copied it to my phone. It didn't have the problem.

I'll keep trying though, maybe I can figure out something.
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Old 06-24-2010, 04:22 AM   #19
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In his post of 22 June Kovid talks of adding a button to the metadata field to allow one to a the better default cover with the calibre logo plus title and author on request.
I particularly like this if it can be a bulk edit after a cover:false search

As he asks I have opened ticket 5959 for this since I cannot see anyone else has done so

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Old 06-26-2010, 07:32 AM   #20
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Kovid, I'm no longer sure my issue (cover image appearing only briefly while book opens, then can't see it again from inside book, using Aldiko on Android device) has anything to do with Calibre. Yesterday I found out how to add Webscriptions as a catalog in Aldiko and downloaded some books directly from the Baen Free Library. They all have the same problem as the books I created. However, books downloaded via the built-in Feedbooks catalog do not have the problem. Perhaps I should repost in the Epub forum to try and find out what is going on here...I'd like my books to work like the Feedbook ones and not the Baen ones if possible.
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Kovid, I'm no longer sure my issue (cover image appearing only briefly while book opens, then can't see it again from inside book, using Aldiko on Android device) has anything to do with Calibre. Yesterday I found out how to add Webscriptions as a catalog in Aldiko and downloaded some books directly from the Baen Free Library. They all have the same problem as the books I created. However, books downloaded via the built-in Feedbooks catalog do not have the problem. Perhaps I should repost in the Epub forum to try and find out what is going on here...I'd like my books to work like the Feedbook ones and not the Baen ones if possible.
Arnold uses Calibre for Webscriptions
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Old 06-26-2010, 10:56 AM   #22
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Look at the epub file in a few other viewers and see if you can replicate the problem on another viewer. I dont have any android devices so I can't test it on aldiko.
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Arnold uses Calibre for Webscriptions
Clearly a man of discerning taste and judgement.

I have tested one Feedbooks epub (Farnol's Black Bartlemy's Treasure) and a Webscriptions book (Schmitz's Agent of Vega) with FBreader for Windows (on WinXP), Maemo (on my n800), and Android (on my Dinc). The cover of the Webscriptions book displays correctly only on the Windows version; the Maemo and Android versions don't show it at all. All three versions will show the Feedbooks cover.

PS. Maemo and Android are both Linux-derived, aren't they?
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Old 06-26-2010, 07:59 PM   #24
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It may just be that the cover is too large. Feedbooks doesn't use an image as a cover, instead it uses html with a small logo.

WHat output profile are you using when converting in calibre?
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It may just be that the cover is too large. Feedbooks doesn't use an image as a cover, instead it uses html with a small logo.

WHat output profile are you using when converting in calibre?
Is that the output profile in the Page Setup part of the conversion settings? I had never looked at it before but it seems to be on "Default Output profile".
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set it to sony reader (that will ensure the covers are smaller than 600x800)
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set it to sony reader (that will ensure the covers are smaller than 600x800)
That didn't help, sorry. The cover of the book I tried it on was only 292x475 anyway. Another of the problem books has a 140x223 cover.
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In that case I'm out of ideas, sorry.
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