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davidfor · 04-27-2015, 03:44 AM

@NiLuJe: I have to admit I completely forgot about this until last week. And that was only because when I was adding support for the Glo HD I picked the wrong book to test with. And that caused me to realise there is a little problem with the cover generation.

I think I'm OK with it, but, I need to look at it again. I now have a Aura H2O and a Glo HD so have been a little more conscious of the image display.

One issue is that I don't have a C environment to build the magick. Do the samples images you posted before cover all the different circumstances? I think that if I put them in a CBZ, I can scroll through them on the device. That's assuming the same rendering/display engine is used there as for the screensaver. Otherwise, I can to manually replace the covers images for a few books.

The other thing is the letterboxing. That is OK for people who display the covers full screen, but for the non-full screen display, I think it will mean black rectangles down the size. I'll have to try it to see. But, doing the resizing is what I was thinking about last week. I think I was being to smart when I originally did this.

I'll try and do something this week or over the weekend. But, there's something else related to calibre and Kobo I promised to do for someone first. Of course, it has completely slipped my mind what it is, so I'll probably do this first. Unless I decide to read a book. Or we get weather like last week.

04-27-2015, 03:44 AM	#243
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	@NiLuJe: I have to admit I completely forgot about this until last week. And that was only because when I was adding support for the Glo HD I picked the wrong book to test with. And that caused me to realise there is a little problem with the cover generation. I think I'm OK with it, but, I need to look at it again. I now have a Aura H2O and a Glo HD so have been a little more conscious of the image display. One issue is that I don't have a C environment to build the magick. Do the samples images you posted before cover all the different circumstances? I think that if I put them in a CBZ, I can scroll through them on the device. That's assuming the same rendering/display engine is used there as for the screensaver. Otherwise, I can to manually replace the covers images for a few books. The other thing is the letterboxing. That is OK for people who display the covers full screen, but for the non-full screen display, I think it will mean black rectangles down the size. I'll have to try it to see. But, doing the resizing is what I was thinking about last week. I think I was being to smart when I originally did this. I'll try and do something this week or over the weekend. But, there's something else related to calibre and Kobo I promised to do for someone first. Of course, it has completely slipped my mind what it is, so I'll probably do this first. Unless I decide to read a book. Or we get weather like last week.