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Can we please expand the color range for the cover generator? This represents a minor change which opens up many more beautiful book covers
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Open the edit metadata dialog, right click the generate cover button and create as many new color schemes as you like.
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I made a post a while ago with information on creating an endless set of randomized color schemes that can then be used in cover generation. Basically, I found a website that allows one to generate text from a regex template, and created a template whose result could be pasted into the file where calibre saves color schemes.
You can ask the website to generate as many iterations from the template as you want. I think I have a few thousand themes saved in calibre, which I refresh every few months or so. I've attached a screenshot of my themes list just so you see the end result. I'm also attaching a screenshot of some custom covers I made for journal articles, shrinking the size to display as many as possible. Looks like I got 230 in there, and no two use the exact same colors. Of course, I use some typesetting hacks and I'm running from source with tweaked copies of the default styles, which helps with cover diversity too. But the colors are all generated from regex. |
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Right clicking a button is rather unintuitive.
I'm specifically requesting that the default color scheme list be expanded. |
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Load button doesn't appear to do anything
When I try to load a color scheme file, the Load button does not appear to do anything at all.
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What version of Calibre?
What OS? and where is this 'Load' button (how to get to see it)? |
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One of the first things I learned when mice started being used (yes, I started on the original 8086: clones) , was right-click on things to see what was there. |
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There's a small inverted triangle glyph on the bottom left corner of the Generate Cover button. When the new Generate cover tool was introduced it took me a couple of frustrating days to discover that unlike a similar glyph on a toolbar button, it is not a separate clickable element.
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@mcandre - you can only Load a scheme you previously Saved. And please don't start multiple threads on the same topic. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 06-18-2022 at 09:01 PM. |
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Perhaps a few decades back, you might have been right. Now almost every program I use uses right-click context menus despite quibbles from those who claim that a context menu must also allow the Shift-F10 shortcut. I won't even get into those programs that have separate menus for right-click and Shift-F10 other than to say some programmers are odd critters.
It might be argued that using Shift-F10 to open a command prompt during a Windows OOBE should be matched by using right-click to do the same. |
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I've been using Right Click for Context menus for over 25 years. Never bothered with Shift F10, which might need two hands.
I've even given 2 and 3 button USB mice to poor Apple OS9 and early oS10 (OSX) users to replace the stupid one button round mouse so they could use Context Menus with one hand. |
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To add a new color scheme, you should see "+ New Color Scheme" on the bottom left of the list of color scemes. I'm surprised you didn't see it before seeing 'load', but I guess I remember when all of these buttons were new. When this feature was first introduced, I just looked up cool color palletes and transferred them over. You can do more with calibre if you're willing to peek around behind the scenes. |
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Well, this post started as a colors and styles thing on the Generate Cover function in the Metadata Editor and somehow go changed to User interface stuff.
I would like to know where the Save and Load functions on the Cover Generation settings page stores and loads the information. If possible I would like to know how to create styles so I can add my own. Yes I also use the Cover Generations plug-in, but I would like some more options to be available if possible. I have been looking for a good part of two days and the information is difficut to ascertain. Thank, Papa |
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In the calibre preferences directory I see a directory cover-generation-themes that contains a JSON file named whatever I save the custom theme as.
You can get to the preferences directory from Preferences | Miscellaneous | Open calibre configuration folder |
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Actual styles
Thanks for the info.
So, any clue as to how to create an actual style? Papa |
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