[olin-shivers]

I'd like to make book-cover images using calibre's cover generator. I *don't* want to do it from the GUI, however. Is there some way I can run the cover generator as a separate program in linux, feeding it author/title/series metadata as command-line arguments, along with the name of the image file for it to produce?

The cover generator's current status as a plugin works fine for doing in-calibre conversions from the GUI. But won't work if one is simply trying to produce a book using other production techniques, outside of calibre, with a GUI-free workflow.

I'm not committed to the calibre cover generator, for that matter. It makes fine covers, but if there's a non-calibre way to make cover jpegs, I'd also be interested in that.

Thanks!

Olin