Resizing cover automatically created from metadata

Anyssia · 07-11-2023, 02:29 PM

Hi!

I'm having some trouble resizing automated covers.

When I add an epub file from AO3 to Calibre, it automatically creates a cover using the metadata info, which is great.

However, I find the size of the book details preview too small.

Spoiler:

EDIT: Just realized that it might be an effect of the Generate Cover plugin and not actually Calibre...

I replied to the generate cover thread to this, but I can't seem to find how to delete a thread I created ? O.o

Thank you
Ateana

JSWolf · 07-12-2023, 07:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anyssia

Hi!

I'm having some trouble resizing automated covers.

When I add an epub file from AO3 to Calibre, it automatically creates a cover using the metadata info, which is great.

However, I find the size of the book details preview too small.

Spoiler:

EDIT: Just realized that it might be an effect of the Generate Cover plugin and not actually Calibre...

I replied to the generate cover thread to this, but I can't seem to find how to delete a thread I created ? O.o

Thank you
Ateana

Here is the cover code I use that works very well. I also use the same code for displaying a full screen titlepage image.

Here is the HTML code for the cover.

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Doomsday Match</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../Styles/style0001.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<div class="cover">
<img alt="" class="cover" src="../Images/cover00221.jpeg"/>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Here is the CSS code for the cover.

Code:

body {
  widows: 1;
  orphans: 1;
  margin-top: 0;
  margin-right: 0;
  margin-bottom: 0;
  margin-left: 0;
  text-align: justify;
}
.cover {
  text-align: center;
  text-indent: 0;
  height: 100%;
}

07-11-2023, 02:29 PM	#1
Anyssia Member Posts: 18 Karma: 19112 Join Date: Aug 2012 Device: Kobo Forma	Resizing cover automatically created from metadata Hi! I'm having some trouble resizing automated covers. When I add an epub file from AO3 to Calibre, it automatically creates a cover using the metadata info, which is great. However, I find the size of the book details preview too small. Spoiler: I'd like to increase the font size or %. But I've tried poking at the settings and cannot seem to find where to go to resize the covers created by calibre when uploading the epub. I tried editing the Preferences - Look & Feel - Book details - Text styling css, and there correcting the body titlepage to body.fff_titlepage { font-size: 2.4vmax; margin: 2vmax; color: red; } (used the red attribute to see if it worked), but it doesn't change anything. I also tried the same with .calibre-cover { font-size: 2em; color:green; still no effect. I also poked at the img { height:200%; width: 200%; } attribute without effect either. Then I moved to Output/Common options, also had a look at the "tweak" setting, ... As far as I understand from the net, Calibre automatically created the cover from the metadata info, which is great. Any idea how to edit the look of that cover Calibre auto-creates? EDIT: Just realized that it might be an effect of the Generate Cover plugin and not actually Calibre... I replied to the generate cover thread to this, but I can't seem to find how to delete a thread I created ? O.o Thank you Ateana Last edited by Anyssia; 07-11-2023 at 03:19 PM.

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