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Old 10-20-2017, 05:48 PM   #28
Josieb1
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Originally Posted by Atunah View Post
Honestly? I can't figure out what this means. By opening the source folder, I assume you mean open containing folder. I don't have anything saying source folder when I right click in calibre. After that I am lost. What preview do I open the cover in and how. And where do I go to put those numbers in. I can't figure that out at all. I open the containing folder and yes, I see the cover listed there separately, but when I want to open it, it asks me with what. And none of it is called preview. And if there is a preview in calibre I can't find it.

So I con't have covers again as I need to have the new bold. In the past, I was able to convert to "old" mobi and send that and it would give me a cover. First I did the resize plug in before converting. I got that from here. Now I need to re-convert to "both" to get the bold, but then I don't have a cover anymore. If I have to pick, I'll pick having the bold. Oh well.

eta: well shoot, I just tried a older side load and now I can't get the bold on doing the "both" Ugh. I have no clue why it worked on the others. Darn it, this stuff is so frustrating.
The OP mentioned he was using a MAC. I'm using a MAC. The instructions are for a MAC.

Basicly resize the original cover in whatever program you have. When I open Calibre and go to Edit the cover size at the bottom of the cover screen has to be approx 1200 x 1800. If the cover is too small resize it then reconvert the file. That fixes the new sized cover to the metadata.

That's it. (On a MAC Preview is the photo edit program)
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