And here's my reply from development:
Quote:
I cannot reproduce,
calibredb add demo.epub
causes the cover to be added from the ebook file. The only case where it
will not work is if the epub file has no declared cover, which requires
rendering of the first page of the file as the cover. That is done using
an instance of WebKit, and WebKit in turn needs access to a GUI display
environment on OS X. Note that this limitation is not present on linux,
where calibre includes a headless QPA backend that allows running WebKit
without an X server, but I dont have the knowledge/intereset to
implement such a backend for OS X. Patches are welcome.
status invalid
** Changed in: calibre
Status: New => Invalid
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This is exactly my problem, the epubs I need to import have no declared cover. Looks like I'm SOL unless there is some other command line tool that can render the cover on OS X before calibre imports
