[GUI Plugin] Generate Cover

[version365]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Re the fonts - you could never "choose" all those weights before either in that none of them were ever actually applied in calibre, so you havent lost anything. In fact you now get two of the fonts that work (normal and bold) vs none previously. What you are really asking for here is rather than a bold checkbox to have a dropdown of weights. Again will put it on the rainy day list for now.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with it. I had generated more than 200 covers with your plugin before 2024 & in every one them I had used the same font Eras ITC - Demi. I don't really remember what was the choosing method before but those book covers are still in my library showing the Demi weight of the font family.
So yeah, I definitely could choose the different weights before.

Originally Posted by JDesat

I don't know if anyone else is having this issue, but ever since updating the plugin yesterday, anytime I use it the window it opens is massive. I'm able to shrink the side to side aspects, but the up and down won't let me do anything. The bottom of the window is below my accessible desktop screen, and when I try to 'pull down' the top to shrink it, it pops back up no matter how many times I do it. I also tried using the Windows hotkeys to shrink it, and it does nothing.
Is it something in the update? If not, does anyone have any idea what's going on?
Thanks!

I was having the same issue as yours.. it was because of some new changes in the plugin. My issues got solved after updating to v2.5.1; you should do the same.

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Release Notes:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...te_cover-2.5.1

It's your lucky day - it did actually rain here this afternoon. The dialog should now have more resizability vertically for those of you with small screens. Ive also replaced the bold checkbox with a dropdown of font weights.

Thank you very much for the quick fix!! Everything is working again..

[kiwidude]

@version365 - you could only use them with the older version of calibre - they did not work with the current calibre/Qt6. That was why you came here to post in the first place. Anyways glad your issues are resolved now with 2.5.1.

[ovillo]

Hey, can I say I also appreciate fine typographic controls? I got my covers deliciously fine-tuned with SemiBold titles and Light series name. Thank you!

[ShoeQueen]

Thank you for your hard work on this! The new functions look great!

As I went to test the update out I noticed that my existing covers that use a full page image as the background now have a white section at the top.

The controls in the Dimensions tab do not solve the issue (Resize cover dimensions to match background image), and the 2nd option (Resize image to scale up if smaller than available area) cannot be checked.

Is there some new process I need to follow?

[ShoeQueen]

Not sure if I attached this correctly, but if I did then you should see a screenshot of the issue.

https://imgur.com/a/o4J3MQc

[ShoeQueen]

Sorry duplicate post

[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by ShoeQueen

Thank you for your hard work on this! The new functions look great!

As I went to test the update out I noticed that my existing covers that use a full page image as the background now have a white section at the top.

The controls in the Dimensions tab do not solve the issue (Resize cover dimensions to match background image), and the 2nd option (Resize image to scale up if smaller than available area) cannot be checked.

Is there some new process I need to follow?

Hi - there is a change in behaviour I mind which unfortunately perhaps with a bug in the configuration migration is leading to this.

The intentional change I made to the plugin with 2.5.0 is that it now respects the padding settings for the Image element even when you choose the stretch as background image option. My intention was to offer flexibility - if you had an image which was stretching too far in one direction, or you wanted a gap at the top/bottom but still have text on top of it etc then you could do so by setting non-zero padding values.

The problem is that the configuration migration code is a mess that needs cleaning up, I will sort this out in a new version which will do this for you.

[kiwidude]

Release Notes:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...te_cover-2.5.2

As discussed above, the reason some users will see white strips above their background images is because on the Content tab if you click on the Image field you will see there is a non-zero value for the "top" value.

This release resets all those padding for image values back to zero, so anyone upgrading doesnt incur the same "surprise" that some of you experienced.

It does mean that anyone using an image not stretched to the background but was using top padding to keep it further below some text above it will have to reapply some value to that field, but I am guessing that is a much smaller minority and such is the price of progress...

[version365]

Hi.. sorry to disturb you again.. with another request.

I just noticed that in the new font style choosing dropdown list, there is only 5 fixed styles.. Light, Normal, Demi Bold, Bold, Black. For the most part, that works great.. but for some font families with unique fonts, it is not enough.

For example, the Ubuntu font family has a 8 different individual font styles installed on my pc. There are also some other font families.. some have 3 styles, some have 2 etc. And they are vastly different than simply Bold or Light; some have condensed style, some have expanded style, some have cursive style etc. which are not choosable via the dropdown menu.

What I am suggesting is that the dropdown menu under Style be similar to the calibre settings. In the Look & Feel settings under calibre, the font choosing screen has the option to choose between all the installed font styles under a particular font family.
Would it be possible to show these variable font styles in the dropdown menu, instead of the fixed styles?

[kiwidude]

I excluded the other weights because they have no Qt5 equivalent (ie older calibre versions).

[ownedbycats]

Poking around, went to Contents, clicked Custom Text 1, then set rotation to 90 and this happened

calibre, version 9.18.0
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>NameError</b>:name 'QFontMetrics' is not defined

calibre 9.18  embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.19045')
Python 3.14.10
Windows: ('10', '10.0.19045', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeACSM (0, 0, 16) && DeDRM (10, 0, 9) && Action Chains (1, 20, 10) && Apple Books covers (1, 1, 1) && Baen (1, 2, 0) && Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 8) && Calibre Config Reports (5, 0, 2) && Comments Cleaner (1, 21, 1) && Count Pages (1, 15, 3) && Editor Chains (1, 1, 9) && Embed Comic Metadata (1, 6, 9) && EpubCheck (0, 3, 0) && EpubMerge (3, 3, 0) && EpubSplit (3, 12, 0) && Extract ISBN (1, 6, 7) && FTS+ (3, 0, 1) && FanFicFare (4, 63, 0) && Fantastic Fiction (1, 7, 2) && Favourites Menu (1, 4, 1) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 11) && Generate Cover (2, 5, 2) && GetFileName (0, 2, 0) && Goodreads (1, 10, 0) && Job Spy (1, 0, 239) && Kindle hi-res covers (0, 5, 1) && Kobo Utilities (2, 29, 0) && Last Modified (0, 8, 5) && Manage Series (1, 5, 5) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 12) && MultiColumnSearch (1, 0, 96) && Obok DeDRM (10, 0, 9) && Open With (1, 9, 0) && Overdrive Link (2, 58, 0) && Quality Check (1, 15, 0) && Reading Goal (2, 1, 2) && Reading List (1, 15, 9) && Search The Internet (1, 11, 5) && Shortcuts Helper (1, 1, 0) && SmartEject (2, 7, 0) && Sum Column (0, 3, 3) && Template Catalog (3, 0, 0) && View Manager (1, 11, 3) && Walk Search History (1, 5, 6) && Overdrive Link Metadata Source (2, 58, 0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "calibre_plugins.generate_cover.dialogs", line 2199, in display_preview
  File "calibre_plugins.generate_cover.draw", line 610, in generate_cover_for_book
  File "calibre_plugins.generate_cover.draw", line 382, in create_cover_page
  File "calibre_plugins.generate_cover.draw", line 269, in prepare_rotated_field
NameError: name 'QFontMetrics' is not defined

[kiwidude]

Release Notes:
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr...te_cover-2.5.3

Thanks ownedbycats - I moved some code around in a hurry at the end and messed it up obviously.

[version365]

Originally Posted by kiwidude

I excluded the other weights because they have no Qt5 equivalent (ie older calibre versions).

Sorry but I don't understand why Qt5 is relevant here. Calibre already uses Qt6, no?

[PeterT]

Originally Posted by version365

Sorry but I don't understand why Qt5 is relevant here. Calibre already uses Qt6, no?

Current versions for, but some people still run older QT5 based versions of calibre, often due to their OS not being supported by QT6

[version365]

Originally Posted by PeterT

Current versions for, but some people still run older QT5 based versions of calibre, often due to their OS not being supported by QT6

But the older versions of Qt5 calibre also has that font style choosing options in calibre settings. Can that list of font styles not be 'imported' to the plugin's dropdown menu?