Generate Cover

Generate Cover is a Calibre plugin that allows users to generate covers for their e-books.

With this extension you can add your own images, configure metadata, fonts, colors, margins, borders and much more!

Generate Cover is a free add-on designed to work with Calibre 0.9.5 or higher.

What is new in this release:

• Add/remove your own images to a list to choose from when you generate
• Option to use the existing book cover as an embedded image
• Control which metadata to display and where it is located on the cover
• Option to swap author name for users who store it in Calibre as LN, FN
• Fine tune many aspects of cover appearance such as fonts, borders, colors and margins
• Save your customised settings under a name to quickly recall multiple different appearances
• Export your settings for sharing and import settings from other users
• Option to use an image as a background rather than a content item
• Option to add custom text to a cover, using Calibre's template language to place your choice of additional data on the cover
• Option to auto-size text to fit on a single line for long text

What is new in version 1.5.14:

• Fix for the user typing \n or or or as part of the author to control split across multiple lines.

What is new in version 1.5.11:

• Fix bug of import saved cover settings not working

What is new in version 1.5.8:

• Automatically "correct" any corrupted json files when users upgrade to this version.
• Check for corruption every time Generate Cover is opened. If found, show error dialog and autofix.
• Prevent plugin being used in Device View or on Device View context menu.

What is new in version 1.5.6:

• Add support for calibre 0.9.5 which changed how Fonts are loaded.

Requirements:

• Calibre