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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
You can right click the cover and choose edit cover with, to open it in any image editing software to perform whatever functions you like. You could even "open" it with a dedicated command line script that did the resizing automatically.
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Thanks (and thanks for all your work and probably one of the best software tools ever developed for a specific purpose - the "pros" rarely ever get a program that does almost everything you would want - and you continually add functionality. Like I mentioned - my usage for non-books (video and audio lessons for example) as well as for adding my notes and stuff related to a book - skyrocketed when you added the ability to put things in a data folder.
But - and I have used the edit in functionality occasionally when the only cover I can find via download cover in the MDE is off color or poorly scanned (i.e. crooked) - but I was specifically looking for a QUICK RESIZE button or menu item (in the menu that allows cropping the white space etc) - like the Resize Cover PI - in the MDE. One click and it is fixed.
The reason being is often I only discover the need to resize when I am editing in the MDE window and notice the image appears small (I add to see the image size - so now I can see that way also - so If I get an aspect that includes a 240 pixel variable I know I have to resize - especially so it is large enough when I open the Book Details window - which now that I use it as a library for my Music Lessons AND Music Books - in addition to my main book library - where I include a lot of information and links (for example - I'll put links to all of the video files so I can use it as a platform to watch or listen to lessons not just find them, now that I can link to files in the data folder, or I'll put a link to another lesson set or a songbook etc from the library that can be useful with that lesson).
I don't know if you would as a matter of policy include a way to access a PI via that MDE window and the cover edit tool - given its another person's work.
But maybe - since it is such a useful tool and basic function - in the next update you could add that capacity to the main program and make it available through the MDE tool. That would be ideal. And it would add that base functionality to the program itself - not needing a plug in any longer.
But again I want to thank you on having developed probably the one Program that I use more than any other (even competing with Microsoft Word or Onenote (which I now can link to Onenote notebooks - via putting a link in the Metadata editor window
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