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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
Update EPUB Cover when Updating EPUB? / Update EPUB Cover stops the FFF downloader from getting a cover from story specific cover images, first images or default cover during download. It's one of the oldest things in FFF plugin and pre-dates all other cover settings and features.
What happens after download, while putting info into Calibre and especially Generated Covers, is controlled by the other settings.
Honestly, Update EPUB Cover when Updating EPUB? / Update EPUB Cover is redundant with never_make_cover:true and should probably be removed. I started looking into that spring 2021 but never got back to it. The issue is whether FFF should automatically append that setting to personal.ini for the users who do have it unchecked be default or now.
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I would say instead that it doesn't do what you expect because you're not understanding the division between downloading and metadata integration into Calibre that exists for historical reasons. FFF was an existing downloader that was integrated into Calibre as a plugin and is still released as a CLI.
Again, Update EPUB Cover when Updating EPUB? is old and only affects the download process itself, not the calibre integration afterwards. So, yes, Generate Calibre Cover: Yes, always will always generate a cover.
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Okay, I think I understand now why it's apparently not having an effect; would checking that option mean that if the story itself on the site updates its cover, FFF would update the cover accordingly in the epub? Is that all it's for?
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
cover_image will contain specific, old, etc. But when you are injecting the cover, yes, they will all have some value. So unless you use generate_cover_settings it doesn't matter and they are treated the same.
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But is it supposed to change the value from "first" to "old" whenever "Update EPUB Always" is run?
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Originally Posted by JimmXinu
At that point, I'd turn off GC in FFF and generate covers manually if it were me.
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How can I inject manually generated covers inside the epub? What I hope to do is basically:
1. Download a story initially, with a cover either taken from the site (if there is one), or from the first image (if there is one), or be given a generated cover template, based off the site (or ideally, even more specific metadata, like the fandom/category). This seems more or less possible already (though I only have per-site ones set up, not per-category).
2. When updating the epub story or metadata, to never change the cover gotten from the download, unless I do so deliberately/purposely (it shouldn't happen just as a side-effect of running the updater, as it does now for the generated covers).
3. To be able to deliberately/purposely update the cover for either one or many stories at once (if many, it would be some kind of template), and have this change injected into the epub, and this updated cover will, again, not be changed until I deliberately change it.
What would you recommend for this?