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[BetterRed]

@Kovid - I noticed this change in the pipeline ==>> Allow reading more image formats as covers

Will this include TIFF files? If it does, perhaps the image type list could be user configurable, exclusions via a tweak would be best for me.

Some of the 'books' in my _Main library have a large multi-page Baseline TIFF file containing one or more diagrams. Comic book formats are not an option, firstly because some of the books already have a CBZ file, and some of the TIFFs can only viewed effectively with Fast Image Viewer or something similar.

And for my _Media library, I've been thinking of migrating the image urls I currently have in custom comments to multi-page TIFFs. This would overcome the annoyance of having the images flash up as 'tooltips' in the book list, and it would move the images into the library folder - which is arguably where they belong. Again comic book formats are not an option, in this case many of the books already have a CBZ.

BR

[eschwartz]

Yes (TIFF was the original motivator).
They will be converted to JPEG and added as cover.jpg

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There is no tweak currently. But a tweak to configure what drag-and-drop files count as covers would probably be good to have even without this change.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Yes (TIFF was the original motivator).
They will be converted to JPEG and added as cover.jpg
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There is no tweak currently. But a tweak to configure what drag-and-drop files count as covers would probably be good to have even without this change.

Assuming there will be no tweak :

• what will happen to the 4.5K TIFFs I already have in _Main (they are large multi-page tiffs), will they get converted to cover.jpg and what will happen to the existing cover.jpgs.
• anyone know of an alternative for TIFF as convenient format for storing hi-res images in a multi-page container - ebook formats are not an option.

Added : And, I was rather enamoured with my idea of using multi-page TIFFs to overcome the annoyance of having image links in custom comments flashing up as booklist tooltips

BR

[eschwartz]

You can add JPGs as an ebook format in calibre, assuming you use the Add Format dialog.

Likewise, your TIFFs are safe -- but new drag-and-drops would assume you mean to add it as a cover.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

You can add JPGs as an ebook format in calibre, assuming you use the Add Format dialog.

Likewise, your TIFFs are safe -- but new drag-and-drops would assume you mean to add it as a cover.

I add the tiffs to existing books via DnD to Book Details, I rarely create a book from a TIFF. Adding ebook format files with the Add to existing book dialogue is awkward enough, but adding 'foreign' formats is an absolute PITA.

When KG removed the ebook only restriction on DnD to Book Details I not only cheered, I sent money

BR

[kovidgoyal]

I can certainly add a tweak to exclude some formats from what DnD considers to be covers. Open a ticket for it so I dont forget.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I can certainly add a tweak to exclude some formats from what DnD considers to be covers. Open a ticket for it so I dont forget.

Done ==>> [Enhancement] Tweak to control image DnD to Book D...

Thanks a lot

BR

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I can certainly add a tweak to exclude some formats from what DnD considers to be covers. Open a ticket for it so I dont forget.

Double thanks due

Putting my multiple book related images into a multi-page TIFF works a treat.

Firstly it eliminates this Annoyance

It puts the images inside the book folder, lets me view the images in a proper TIFF viewer (VLIV), from the GUI and the server, it's a easy to append another image to an existing TIFF with Irfan View (or Imagemagik), and I can deal with the TIFFs just like any other non-ebook format file.

BR