06-27-2013, 03:25 PM | #1 |
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[SOLVED] Thumbnail images incorrect display
I have added custom covers to a number of epub books in Calibre, using the "Generate Cover" plugin. The ebooks look perfect in Calibre and when you open the books and check page 1 (the cover) on my Kobo Glo they look fine too. However, the thumbnails are all wacky on many of them. Most show a small (half size?) cover image stuck in the upper left hand corner of the thumbnail, with white space all around.
What can I do to fix this? Last edited by cortman; 06-28-2013 at 12:10 PM. |
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06-27-2013, 04:43 PM | #3 |
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I forgot to mention that I saved them to disk, then re-imported them so that the cover image was embedded in the epub, so I don't think that setting will make any difference, but I can try it.
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Depends on where the image is embedded. By default Kobo uses the first page of the epub as the cover. I believe the calibre plugin overrides that behaviour.
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06-27-2013, 05:25 PM | #5 |
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I will have to take back what I said about the cover looking fine in the book too; that doesn't appear to be the case either.
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Kobo covers 101: The cover images are generated from fhe first page of the book. If that looks good, then the cover should look good.
From the sounds of it, the covers you want are on the first page, but are not centred and automatically sized to fill the page. You can fix that manually by editing the book and changing the code in the page. But, using either the Polish Books function of calibre, or the Modify ePub plugin should do this as well. Both of these update the files in the library, and will skip the save to disk and re-add that you are doing. An alternative is what the other David suggested. The driver can send the cover files to the device when the book is sent. The options David was pointing to will do this. If the book is already on the device and you don't want to change it, you can use the Kobo Utilities plugin to send the covers separately. |
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It appears that running "Polish Books" and selecting to replace/fix the cover has fixed the problem! Thanks a lot for everyone's suggestions!
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