04-19-2018, 06:08 AM | #1 |
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Irfanview to proportionally resize all covers
My library currently has just over 5,000 books in it. I never really worried about the cover sizes, until I noticed one specific book's cover was over 2Mb and the book itself was only 440kb. I realized I'm wasting an enormous amount of space on my Dropbox and backup drive. I used Irfanview to proportionally resize all covers so the long side is a maximum of 500 pixels long.
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04-19-2018, 12:05 PM | #2 | |
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04-19-2018, 12:35 PM | #3 | |
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After that has been done: do as DNSB suggests: Embed so the book shrinks Quality check Plugin to FIND which covers in the LIBRARY are big (does not check the book files. Embed after fixing) |
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04-20-2018, 12:50 AM | #4 |
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It sounds like a lot of effort to achieve the same result. I literally used Irfanview to automatically resize all covers' longest side to 500 pixels if they were longer than that. I only looked at the biggest cover (size) and it was 3120 pixels high - that was enough reason to do the resize exercise.
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Also, but using an external tool to manipulate the calibre library, there is a higher chance of breakage. And it means that people need to learn how to use the tool to achieve the desired affect. But, if you want the small cover size, I would think the simplest thing to do is use calibre to set the maximum size of the cover. There is a tweak in the calibre preferences to do this. When it is set, all large covers will be downscaled to this size when the book is added or the cover updated. |
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04-20-2018, 08:21 PM | #6 | |
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Since it had nothing to do with the Resize Cover plugin I moved it to its own thread. |
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