Problems With Cover Pic

[beckons1]

Hi, the cover page of my epub document (your pic of Rembrandt) always appears at the end of my ebook and not at the beginning. Why? I have not changed your ebook RTF template. The process is this: I open the ebook template, take out your green text as you say, then save the document as a RTF file; export it as an epub file. Then I open it up in Calibre and every time the pic of Rembrandt appears at the end of the document instead of at the start. Any ideas? Thanks.

[admin]

I am not sure that Calibre is a proper tool to test EPUBs. Calibre is primarily a conversion tool, not an eReader.

Please click here for a list of tools you could use to test EPUBs.

[Robert]

Hi,
— Attached “eBook.rtf” is the official Atlantis ebook RTF template.

— Attached “eBook2.rtf” is a document built from the Atlantis template. The green text and green paragraph end marks have been removed along with the blue hyperlink (“above”). Note that removing the green colored text + paragraph end marks can be done in this way:

• 1. Press “Ctrl+A” to place the insertion point at the start of the document.
  2. Press “Ctrl+F”.
  3. Clear the “Find” box if necessary.
  4. Check the “Format” box.
  5. Click on the leftmost button on the corresponding toolbar (the “Search for Font Format” button).
  6. In the “Font Format” dialog, select the “Sea Green” color. “OK” out of the dialog.
  7. Press the “Find and Select All” button in the “Find / Replace” dialog.
  8. Press “OK” to close the “Information” window.
  9. Press the “Del” key to remove the selected green text.

— Attached “eBook2.epub” is the ePub file saved in Atlantis from “eBook2.rtf”.

This “eBook2.epub” file displays as intended in both ADE and the Windows Desktop version of the Calibre Viewer I have on my system.

How does it display in your version of Calibre?

How is your version of “eBook2.rtf” different from the one attached to this post?

HTH.
Cheers,
Robert

[beckons1]

Thanks for the files, Robert, they have sorted out the issue.

[Robert]

Could you please explain what exactly caused Calibre to display the cover picture of your eBook at the end of the document instead of at the start?
This would help us understand why this is sometimes happening.

[cyana]

just to add, the cover page is not displayed at all when opening the eBook with an iPad/iPhone. It's only visible in the preview, but not in the book itself.

[admin]

Some eReaders do not display cover pages in the book itself.

Atlantis marks cover pages of eBooks as non-belonging to the "linear reading order" of the eBook. If you open the "Ops\content.opf" file from your EPUB package with the tweak_epub utility, you could notice the following attribute:

<itemref idref="id001" linear="no"/>

It means that the corresponding HTML file from the EPUB package does not belong to the "body text" of the eBook.

Some eReaders support this attribute. Some do not. If you want, you can remove linear="no" from your EPUB file with the tweak_epub utility.

[cyana]

Thanks admin. This seems to be the problem, it also cures the topic Robert mentioned !

[mg79]

About Atlantis and calibre: when I import ebooks created with Atlantis in calibre, the cover isn't generated well (with white spaces around the image). Other books don't have this problem. I found out that if I change this line in the content.opf:

<meta content="cover.jpg" name="cover" />

in:

<meta content="cover" name="cover" />

Then the cover is recognized properly.

The same happens with ADE, it is significant only because it syncs the bad covers to my reader. These aren't the covers of the book, which are displayed, but the cover thumbnails that are generated by calibre or ADE and then synced with the reader, or generated by the reader itself.

[admin]

This meta item is incorrectly generated by Atlantis indeed. It should refer to the corresponding item from the "manifest" section, not the graphic file itself.

This bug has been fixed in the latest build of the Atlantis beta version. Thanks for reporting it.

Please upgrade your Atlantis to the latest beta version. Just download the setup file of the latest beta version of Atlantis from the Betatesting page, run the setup, and follow the onscreen instructions.