Thread: Why are my book covers sometimes so small?
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Old 10-20-2019, 09:26 AM   #10
davidfor
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Originally Posted by geek1011 View Post
That would have explained part of what I was seeing, as I noticed this when testing seriesmeta, and for that, I tried epubs for the first time in a while.
You're going to have to read my posts a bit more thoroughly I've made this statement about how the cover images in epubs and kepubs are generated quite a few times over the years.
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That would explain the other part of what I was seeing, and I probably thought it was the first page because the half-cover looked a lot like that.

I guess I was partly misguided about this, but there still seems to be a need for a cover-image fixer, as a few of my books that used to import correctly now have an ugly cover, so I'm working on that now. I'll also look into the second thing you said, as that's probably something I can fix in kepubify.
I just read what you quoted, and I missed the word "only". It should have been:

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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Kepubs uses the image that is marked as the cover. This might have changed somewhere. In the past, it had to be marked in the OPF as 'properties="cover-image"'. Now it looks like only the cover meta item needs to point to it correctly. Without either of these, I get the default cover with the title and format on it.
The cover image was always identified with that property. But, I it looks like it can also be identified using the meta item for the cover. I don't know if this is new, or has been around for a while.
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