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Old 12-04-2022, 01:15 PM   #7798
marshie250
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I had a question about cover generation when it comes to anthologies. I have several stories that I have created covers for, and would like to preserve those when updating the stories, while generating covers based on updated metadata for stories that have no created covers. For this, setting Update Calibre Cover (from ePub) to "Yes, if EPUB has a cover image" and Generate Calibre Cover to "Yes, unless FanFicFare found a cover image" works beautifully.

Updating anthologies while using these settings, however, forces cover generation even with stories I've created a cover for. I've tried various combinations of settings, but ultimately I've only been able to either:
a) use the previously mentioned settings to preserve created covers while still generating covers with the updated metadata for stories without created covers (though created anthology covers are always overwritten with generated covers), or
b) set calibre to preserve the cover no matter what (using the "Only for New Books" settings), which keeps all created covers, even for anthologies, but obviously will not re-generate with updated metadata for stories with no created covers

Am I missing a setting to resolve this issue with the forced creation of anthology covers? Or do I need to just stick with the settings in scenario b and manually generate covers for stories when I see they've been updated?
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