Wrong image is displayed for cover and thumbnail (ePub)
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 22:21 — Anonymous
Most ePubs I have created display the correct cover image in Stanza Desktop (Mac) and on the iPhone. However there are 2 books that always display the wrong image in Stanza Desktop, and the same wrong image as the thumbnail and initial cover image in Stanza on the iPhone. (On the iPhone, a few seconds after opening the book, the cover page loads and the correct image appears. Stanza Desktop always displays the wrong image).
These books display the correct cover image in Adobe Digital Editions (Mac) and on a Sony PRS-505 Reader.
The 2 books in question have several images in the "images" folder, including the cover image. The cover image is displayed by cover.xhtml, which is the first entry in the toc.ncx. The cover image is also the first image item defined in content.opf (being the first image in content.opf seems to be essential for getting Stanza Desktop to display the correct cover).
Excerpt from content.opf:
...
... followed by other images ...
This usually works and the correct image is displayed for the cover and thumbnail, coverflow etc, but not in these books that have extra images.
So, how do I specify which image to use for the cover (and thumbnail and coverflow images on the iPhone) in Stanza?
OS: Mac OSX 10.5.7
Stanza 1.0.0 Beta 17
Geoffrey Platt
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cover
Hello,
I have a pdf book that I have converted to epub and pdb. But the cover does not show up on either. I can read with either format. I would like to have the cover of the book show up in Stanza or Ereader. Is there a way to get this to work. Thanks
You can use Calibre or Sigil
You can use Calibre or Sigil to add /edit covers that should show up in Stanza with no problem.
Stanza Desktop does its best
Stanza Desktop does its best to "guess" the cover, usually by just finding the first instance of an image that has approximately the dimensions of a book cover. However, you can additionally provide a hint about which image is the book cover by using the convention discussed at http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/article.asp?BaseFolder=prcgen&File=cover.h....
Explicit cover image specification
I'm manually creating some of my own ebooks and want to specify the cover image.
For example, in the one I just created there is only one image in the .epub and it's the cover. Additionally I specified using the link you posted which image was the cover and it still didn't work.
How you do explictly define which image to use as the cover?
There is no standard way of
There is no standard way of specifying a cover image, but there is a "de-facto" way that Stanza respects, and is described at http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/article.asp?BaseFolder=prcgen&File=cover.h....