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Ever since a couple of updates back the "Generate Cover" button in the Edit Meta Data cover section does not produce correct covers - it spells everything wrong like the image below. I don't know if it's a bug, or if there is something I don't have set right. It used to work perfectly - now it's having some kind of melt down!
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Just to clarify: that should read Fear the Worst by Linwood Barclay. Both the title and author name are messed up.
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What Operating System do you use? What is the version of calibre that you use? Try going to Preferences - Look and Feel and changing the interface font to something generic like Ariel and see if that helps. Also there is a Generate Cover GUI Plugin you might want to try. |
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Calibre is version 7.52 (but it's done this through a few updates now - just not sure exactly when it started) I tried changing the font to Ariel (and a couple other common ones) but it still messes the cover up. It leaves letters out, but it seems to really have trouble with "t" and "s" - very weird. I just tried it on the book: Sudden The Marshal of Lawless, by Oliver Strange and got: Sdden The Marshal of Laless by Srange, Olier (and all of the small "s" have little devil tails on them like the "s" in the photo.) Quote:
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I would also run chkdsk on your drive, if I were you - it could be corruption in the system files causing the issue. I would run the full surface check to make sure that your drive is not failing.
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I suspect that you have some corrupted fonts on your system.
Also: Check your 'Tweak' settings: # Specify which font to use when generating a default cover You may hav an 'odd' font chosen (or the one that was, is no longer on your system) NOTE: Chkdsk only checks for damaged filesystem structure, not for corrupted/infested file content. |
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Serif - is there some way to check to see if I have that font? Or to change the "none" in the tweak to something I know I do have, like Ariel or Courier? Maybe that would be a place to start? ![]() ![]() |
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![]() Just make (edit) the tweak value follow the examples format The next place to check is What font Calibre uses (for all) . That is under Look and Feel I use: Liberation Sans (I had problems when my little fingers changed this to a different font that had 'issues' ![]() |
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![]() ![]() I currently have my font set at Arial - unfortunately, I didn't pay attention to what it was before I started changing it to try and fix the cover issue - but it for sure wasn't a Liberation font, since they aren't there! LOL |
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The liberation fonts are shipped with calibre. You will find them in the calibre installation folder.
I must say, I have no idea why the Liberation fonts aren't being rendered correctly on your system. I'd suggest an uninstall, delete c:\program files\calibre2 and re-install to make sure any corrupted files are removed. |
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I just did a restore default and this is what it put it back to as a default font:
MS Shell Dlg 2 [8pt] Is that correct? I found all of the Liberation fonts in a folder at C:\Program Files\Calibre2\resources\fonts\liberation but the do not show up as a choice in the list when you select "Change Font" under "look and feel" ![]() I'm confused now (not that that is really unusual!) ![]() |
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I'll try an uninstall and reinstall and see if that fixes it - Thanks!
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The font in Preferences->Look & Feel doesn't matter.
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