Images too wide for Nook Screen

js4c · 07-28-2010, 05:12 PM

I am trying to customize the built in comics recipe to only download editorial cartoons. These in in general have a portrait orientation and should be readable on the Nook screen. When I run my recipe and examine the job details, they clearly show that images are rescaled (all less than 600 pixels wide), yet when I view the overall page on my Nook, the images are cut off (they are too wide for my Nook Screen). I opened the same epub file using the E-Book viewer and found out that I needed the screen to be 689 pixels wide in order to accommodate the full image, which is 89 more than the width of the Nook screen. Is there a setting that I am missing that will make the images fit the exact width of the Nook?

kovidgoyal · 07-28-2010, 05:19 PM

Do you have your output profile set to Nook? Also make sure there is no left margin for the images

js4c · 07-28-2010, 05:58 PM

ok... these may be basic questions, but where do I set the output profile to my Nook? In the recipe? I was under the assumption that calibre determined that when I plugged my Nook in. Also, where (or how) do I specifically set margins for images? I did see the margin options under preferences->conversion->page setup but I suspect that this is not the right location. Thanks for all of your help! Calibre is amazing!

jackie_w · 07-28-2010, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by js4c

...where do I set the output profile to my Nook?

During Conversion. Its in [Convert] - [Page setup] - Output profile

Just select the Nook from the list.

js4c · 07-28-2010, 10:09 PM

In [Preferences]->[Conversion]->[Page Setup] I have selected the Nook for both the input and output profiles. I tied setting the margin to 0 pt from the 5.0 pt that was originally set as default but that didn't seem to help. I have calibre set up to create epubs by default. I tried converting an epub to an epub to see if that worked but I am still having the same problem with images needing 689 pixels to display properly. Is there any other setting I should look at? When I run my receipe, it dosen't ask me to select an output profile so I am assuming its using the overall default one?

kovidgoyal · 07-29-2010, 01:03 AM

You have to process the html your recipe downloads to remove any extra margins. The calibre margin settings only affect overall page margins

nyrath · 07-29-2010, 10:12 AM

I don't know if this is correct or not, but I find I can just fit an image on to the Nook screen if it make it 720 high and 600 wide

js4c · 07-29-2010, 04:46 PM

I still am struggling with making this work. My latest attempt was to run my recipe, which is the comics recipe customirzed to select a single editorial cartoon, from the command line using ebook-convert with -d option and --output-profile=nook. When I capture the console output, it reports that it resized the single image calibre downloaded from 600 x 756 to 560 x 706. However, when I look at each of the intermediate output directories (parsed, structure, processed), the image is still in its original size. I tried setting the --margin-left=0 but that didn't help either. I don't know where to go from here. Can anyone give me an example or other pointers? Thanks for the help.

07-28-2010, 05:12 PM	#1
js4c Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook & Novel	Images too wide for Nook Screen I am trying to customize the built in comics recipe to only download editorial cartoons. These in in general have a portrait orientation and should be readable on the Nook screen. When I run my recipe and examine the job details, they clearly show that images are rescaled (all less than 600 pixels wide), yet when I view the overall page on my Nook, the images are cut off (they are too wide for my Nook Screen). I opened the same epub file using the E-Book viewer and found out that I needed the screen to be 689 pixels wide in order to accommodate the full image, which is 89 more than the width of the Nook screen. Is there a setting that I am missing that will make the images fit the exact width of the Nook?

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07-28-2010, 05:19 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,164 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Do you have your output profile set to Nook? Also make sure there is no left margin for the images

07-28-2010, 05:58 PM	#3
js4c Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook & Novel	ok... these may be basic questions, but where do I set the output profile to my Nook? In the recipe? I was under the assumption that calibre determined that when I plugged my Nook in. Also, where (or how) do I specifically set margins for images? I did see the margin options under preferences->conversion->page setup but I suspect that this is not the right location. Thanks for all of your help! Calibre is amazing!

07-28-2010, 10:09 PM	#5
js4c Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook & Novel	In [Preferences]->[Conversion]->[Page Setup] I have selected the Nook for both the input and output profiles. I tied setting the margin to 0 pt from the 5.0 pt that was originally set as default but that didn't seem to help. I have calibre set up to create epubs by default. I tried converting an epub to an epub to see if that worked but I am still having the same problem with images needing 689 pixels to display properly. Is there any other setting I should look at? When I run my receipe, it dosen't ask me to select an output profile so I am assuming its using the overall default one?

07-29-2010, 01:03 AM	#6
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,164 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	You have to process the html your recipe downloads to remove any extra margins. The calibre margin settings only affect overall page margins

07-29-2010, 10:12 AM	#7
nyrath Addict Posts: 281 Karma: 52007 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: nook	I don't know if this is correct or not, but I find I can just fit an image on to the Nook screen if it make it 720 high and 600 wide

07-29-2010, 04:46 PM	#8
js4c Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Nook & Novel	I still am struggling with making this work. My latest attempt was to run my recipe, which is the comics recipe customirzed to select a single editorial cartoon, from the command line using ebook-convert with -d option and --output-profile=nook. When I capture the console output, it reports that it resized the single image calibre downloaded from 600 x 756 to 560 x 706. However, when I look at each of the intermediate output directories (parsed, structure, processed), the image is still in its original size. I tried setting the --margin-left=0 but that didn't help either. I don't know where to go from here. Can anyone give me an example or other pointers? Thanks for the help.

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