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Originally Posted by TheHendrik
Hello. I am trying to learn how to make ebooks in Sigil. I'm having trouble defining a image as cover to my ebook.
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All you have to do is:
- Tools > Add Cover
- Select your image.
- Press OK.
That will automatically add a cover file + do all the EPUB metadata stuff needed.
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Originally Posted by TheHendrik
I know you can have a cover without creating a .xhtml file, just using the manifest file.
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Why are you trying to add a cover without the XHTML file?
If you needed that, then after the steps above:
- Right-Click > Delete on the cover.xhtml file.
That will still:
- leave the proper "cover" metadata on your image
- but remove the XHTML cover file from your book
That's the quickest/easiest way to do what you want to accomplish.
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Originally Posted by TheHendrik
I tried changing and rewriting a bunch of times, but neither Calibre, Moon reader or my kindle recognize a cover. What I'm doing wrong? I'm using Epub3.
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I wouldn't manually mess around in the content.opf unless you know
exactly what you're doing. That's advanced stuff, very easy to mess up... and your typical user will NEVER have to manually go in there to tweak anything.
That's why Sigil has the easy-to-use menus to accomplish whatever is needed:
- Tools > Add Cover for covers.
- Tools > Table of Contents > Generate Table of Contents for TOCs.
- Tools > Metadata Editor for messing with Title/Author/Publisher stuff.
- And various Right-Clicking on files to add Cover/Table of Contents metadata.