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Originally Posted by Quoth
Save the cover to disc, then in Metadata editor, browse for cover. Really if it's anything important you might want a separate save of a cover anyway.
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That does work; already tried it.
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PS. I never use flatpack if a non-flatpack version is available. Flatpack is flaky & inferior.
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I've not had a problem with any of the Flatpaks I've installed. The problems I have with Calibre now are present with the Flatpak, site, and distro versions.
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I use Linux Mint 20.1, Mate Desktop. I have Chromium, Firefox and Waterfox browsers.
Viber, Calibre & Signal from their sites, not distros.
Copy & paste from Gimp to Viber makes Gimp exit. Copy & paste from Image Viewer to Viber does nothing.
I only put covers into Calibre via Download or Browse in metadata editor . I'd assumed the Calibre preview thumbnail of cover copy/paste is only for inside Calibre (which works).
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It seems Copy/Paste in Linux doesn't work predictably. Why would GIMP crash on a copy/paste action? It shouldn't be influenced by the paste action. IIRC, copy/paste did work in Windows, but I have to test it again to make sure.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem is that the settings for the maximum size for the cover is too small for what you want.
Go to Preferences > Tweaks > The maximum width and height for covers stored in the Calibre library
I have mine set to 2000, 4000. It much larger then I want, but it means I can load really large covers and then resize them in the editor.
Now go put back 5.34.0.
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Thanks. I didn't know about that tweak. I've been using Calibre for 10 years, and this tweak has always been at the default size... and I already have covers in the library that are larger than the default values. However: drag and drop from the browser SEEMED to work, but then Calibre would discard the cover. After setting higher values for this tweak, Calibre does save the cover. Drag and drop and later resize in the editor is mostly enough.
I've installed 5.34.0 again indeed; I'll have to watch out for the TOC editor though. For some reason it seems to be unreliable, but I can't really test it. Often it works, but sometimes it loses information. I'll just have to save every 5 edits or so.