Adding images to a book in Calibre

[gstod2001]

In addition to my novel cover, I am trying to include other images in my book. When I include an image in my original document and upload it to Calibre, the image I added is automatically taking the place of my novel cover. Can someone please explain to me how I can add images to my documents and prevent this from happening? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by gstod2001

In addition to my novel cover, I am trying to include other images in my book. When I include an image in my original document and upload it to Calibre, the image I added is automatically taking the place of my novel cover. Can someone please explain to me how I can add images to my documents and prevent this from happening? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

If no cover is declared (semantics), Calibre assumes the first image found is the cover.

If you use the E book-Editor, you can easily assign proper cover status to :
1) The Image file (eg foo.jpg)
2)The Cover Page (eg mycover.xhtml)

Both need to be done for it to be bullet proof (other tools may replace undeclared files)

Note that only one semantic can be assigned to a file (precludes 1 monster file). Cover, titlepage, TOC (if used), Text (Start) need (should) to be separate. All others semantics are mostly optional, but must be isolated if used.

Optionally, you can hand edit these into the Manifest of Content.opf of your book.

Me, I choose the easy way, the editor

[gstod2001]

Thank you so much for your reply and for replying so quickly. I get what you're saying and tried to set the semantics, but I'm not exactly sure what to do once I'm in there. I attempted a couple of things, but to no avail.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by gstod2001

In addition to my novel cover, I am trying to include other images in my book. When I include an image in my original document and upload it to Calibre, the image I added is automatically taking the place of my novel cover. Can someone please explain to me how I can add images to my documents and prevent this from happening? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

@gstod2001 - what format (file type) is the original document? What software do you use to add the images? What format (file type) do you upload to Calibre?

The word 'documents' suggests a word processor, something like Word, Wordstar, Pages, Writer et cetera.

Also which Operating System and version of Calibre do you use?

BR

[gstod2001]

The file format of the document is .odt, an Open Office document. To add images to my document, I insert a picture from a file on my computer. I upload .odt files to Calibre. My operating system is Windows 7. The version, I'm not sure of, but I just downloaded the latest version about a month ago, and the user manual I refer to was last updated on the 14th of this month.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by gstod2001

The file format of the document is .odt, an Open Office document. To add images to my document, I insert a picture from a file on my computer. I upload .odt files to Calibre. My operating system is Windows 7. The version, I'm not sure of, but I just downloaded the latest version about a month ago, and the user manual I refer to was last updated on the 14th of this month.

Try writer2epub, on open office (family) Plugin

MR Forum is a few rows down from here

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by theducks

Try writer2epub, on open office (family) Plugin

Also try saving document as DOCX and converting it, DOCX is ranked higher than ODT in this list ==>> What are the best source formats to convert?

BR

[gstod2001]

Thank you SO much. I will give both suggestions a go and see what happens.

[theducks]

Push comes to shove and it is faster than fighting the problem:

Put a Place Marker where the pictures belongs:
eg PLACE PICTURE ### (assumes pictures are numbered )

Using the book Editor (or Sigil) Import the lot of pictures (File Add Existing...)
Then use Search (REGEX) PLACE PICTURE \d+
Use the place picture toolbar item and replace the marker with the picture named

Ship it

[gstod2001]

Thank you. I will try that as well.

[gstod2001]

BAM!!! It worked! Theducks, thank you SO very much! I have been trying to figure this out for over a week now, almost two. Thanks to everyone else who tried to help me as well. It is greatly appreciated.