Change "Remove ImageMagick" Breaks Generate Cover Plugin

[JimmXinu]

Kovid,

FYI, the recent change "Remove ImageMagick" (11f239c6e507bdec9c6b56b3c97736ac899a0e79) removes several parts that the Generate Cover plugin depends on:

from calibre.utils.magick.draw import (TextLine, create_canvas, create_text_wand,
                                       _get_line, annotate_img, fit_image)

Presumably it's at least possible to redo GC to use something else, but I have no idea how hard it would be to do. (Nor a huge interest in doing it if it is difficult.)

[eschwartz]

davidfor is already working on fixing that plugin: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=274030

[JimmXinu]

Whoops! Sorry about that, everyone.

[davidfor]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

davidfor is already working on fixing that plugin: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=274030

The important thing in that other thread is:

Originally Posted by davidfor

Unfortuntely, Generate Cover uses ImageMagick, so it won't load. I don't really use it, but will have a look at it over the weekend if no one else does.

If someone else wants to do it, I would graciously step aside.

[JimmXinu]

The important thing in that post is:

Originally Posted by davidfor

If someone else wants to do it, I would graciously step aside.

I'm perfectly happy that somebody else is already looking at it, because I didn't want to.

[davidfor]

When I was writing my post, I had an old joke in in mind:

The captain is standing in front of a line of soldiers asking for a volunteer. Then, all except for one of the soldiers take a step back.

I think that describes what is happening

[JimmXinu]

Originally Posted by davidfor

When I was writing my post, I had an old joke in in mind:

The captain is standing in front of a line of soldiers asking for a volunteer. Then, all except for one of the soldiers take a step back.

I think that describes what is happening

I was thinking about the two gophers from the old Warner Bros cartoons.