Hi again. I'm sorry that I keep coming back with more cover related issues but I'm currently having some problems with preventing covers generated using the GC plugin from embedding into an EPUB file.
I'm mostly going to talk about SB and SV since I don't have any stories i follow on QQ that have a cover.
I am currently testing this with
this SB thread and
this SV thread. My settings in "Calibre Cover" section of the FFF GUI settings page
are as follows. I've moved the GC settings for XenForo stories from the INI file to the GUI in case that was influencing something, and I've made sure that "Inject/update the generated cover inside EPUB" is unchecked and that "Generate Calibre Cover" is set to "Yes, Always". My INI settings for
[base_xenforoforum],
[forums.spacebattles.com], and
[forums.sufficientvelocity.com] are below:
Spoiler:
Code:
[base_xenforoforum]
add_to_exclude_metadata_pre:
prefix_tags=~Commission
legend_spoilers:true
user_agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
add_to_extratags:,From CrW Forums
add_to_custom_columns_settings:
dateUpdated=>#fff_dateupdated
numChapters=>#fff_chapter_count
status=>#fff_status
numWords=>#fff_words
cover_image=>#cover_type
[base_xenforoforum:epub]
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,normalized_storyUrl
include_in_normalized_storyUrl:storyUrl
add_to_replace_metadata:
normalized_storyUrl=>(https?:\/\/forums?\..*?\.com\/(threads|posts)\/)(.*\.)?(\d+\/)(\?post.\d+.*\D(\d+))?=>\1\4\5
titlepage_start:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>${title} by ${author}</title>
<link href="stylesheet.css" type="text/css" charset="UTF-8" rel="stylesheet"/>
</head>
<body class="fff_titlepage">
<div class="title">
<h2><a href="${normalized_storyUrl}">${title}</a> by ${authorHTML}</h2>
</div>
<hr id="underTitle-horRule">
<div>
titlepage_entry:
<b>${label}:</b> ${value}<br />
titlepage_end:
</div>
</body>
</html>
## ------------------------------------------------
[forums.spacebattles.com]
username:XXXXXXXX
password:XXXXXXXX
#always_login:true
#use_browser_cache:true
#use_browser_cache_only:true
#open_pages_in_browser:true
use_threadmark_wordcounts:true
#use_flaresolverr_proxy:true
add_to_extratags:,From SB
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,prefix_tags
include_in_prefix_tags:forumtags,tagsfromtitle
#generate_cover_settings:
# ${publisher}=>spacebattles.com=>SpaceBattles
# ${cover_image} => ((specific)|(first)|(default)|(^$)) => SpaceBattles
add_to_replace_metadata:
prefix_tags=>^(.*)=>[SB] [t] \1
include_subject_tags:prefix_tags,extratags
## ------------------------------------------------
[forums.sufficientvelocity.com]
username:XXXXXXXX
password:XXXXXXXX
always_login:true
add_to_extratags:,From SV
add_to_extra_valid_entries:,prefix_tags
include_in_prefix_tags:forumtags,tagsfromtitle
#generate_cover_settings:
# ${publisher}=>sufficientvelocity.com=>SufficientVelocity
# ${cover_image} => ((specific)|(first)|(default)|(^$)) => SufficientVelocity
add_to_replace_metadata:
prefix_tags=>^(.*)=>[SV] [t] \1
include_subject_tags:prefix_tags,extratags
When I try to download the test threads I mentioned with these settings and check the internal files using Calibre's EPUB editor, I see the GC generated cover as the cover.jpg for both
the SB story and
the SV story.
If I then disable GC for SpaceBattles and SufficientVelocity through the GUI, the EPUB covers are now what is displayed on the story's
SB /
SV thread.
I've reviewed my INI & GUI settings a few times now and I haven't found anything egregiously wrong, but seeing as I've previously missed some pretty obvious things I'd like to ask if anyone knows what's going on here.
In case you need the info:
- Calibre version: 7.8.0 (Was on 7.9.0 but I downgraded to see if the issue persisted)
- FFF version: 4.33.0
- Windows version: Windows-10-10.0.19045-SP0 64bit (taken from FFF job details)
- Generate Cover version: 2.3.4