I’m updating a .mobi I published a couple of years ago. I only updated a little of the text. When I complied, it said there was no cover image. I looked and the file is still there, but it doesn’t show the image. I thought it might be corrupted so I uploaded a new image, but it will not show the image either.
Any suggestions on what I might try?
Note: I have other projects similar to this one, they do not have this problem.
Is the image appearing in the compile settings, i.e. you can select it from the drop-down menu there and it displays, but it is not included in the ebook compile, or is it not even available from compile and just listed in your binder? We did release a hotfix for 1.8.6 shortly after that version initially went out which fixed a bug preventing the cover image from compiling in ebooks, which would match the first scenario. That would be universal though, so if you’re able to successfully compile the cover image in other projects with this same version of Scrivener, that doesn’t fit. Is the file JPG or PNG?
The image in the research folder is there, but when I click on it, it doesn’t display an image anymore – just a blank gray background. When I try to import a new image, it does the same thing. It is a jpg. I looked in the project files and it displays there.
I thought the image itself might be corrupted so I created a new one. - That fixed it.
I’m not sure how it became corrupted after it published, but it works now.
I am having similar problems with a new project ready for a first draft compile to ebook. I have a folder in the project called Cover and it has one text document. The image I want to display as the cover is visible in both the folder and the document. My structure has been one folder for each draft and text documents in that folder as the chapters.
At the Compile step I choose “Cover” and the pulldown doesn’t display anything. In the Contents option I have tried it with “add front matter” checked and not checked.
I have attached the “no cover” error message I receive during the compile.
Thanks for any help!
John
You’ll need to import the image directly into the binder (anywhere other than the Draft folder) for it to appear as a cover image option. It sounds like now you’ve just inserted it into a text document. If you don’t still have the image file accessible, you can right-click the image in the document and choose “Save As Picture…” to create a new file that you can import back into the binder.
I am having the same issue. I’ve read the other posts and I don’t understand what you mean by insert the image directly in to the binder. I’ve created a new document under “Research” and inserted the image there. If I am supposed to insert it in some other way, I don’t know how because the insert image option only activates if I am within a document in the binder.
I’m adding a screenshot. The project on the left works (created a month or two ago) - the cover is included in Compile. The project on the right (created today) won’t list the cover in Compile. I used the same method to insert both photos.
~Susan
You import a file into the binder via File > Import > Files…, which will allow you to browse your computer to select the file, or by dragging and dropping the file from Finder directly into the binder. If you use the menu, the file will be placed according to what you have selected, so e.g. you’d select the Research folder first, then choose File > Import, and once you’ve chosen the file and clicked “Import”, it will be added to the Research folder. You’ll see it with a little image icon in the binder (rather than the text document icon); clicking that will let you view the image in the editor, and you’ll see it’s just the image, not “the image on piece of paper” the way it looks when you’ve inserted an image into a document.
Generally, you’d insert an image into a document when you want that image alongside the text; this is how you would include images in your compiled manuscript. Ebook covers are a special case, because the format wants the image file directly, not embedded into a text document, so during compile to that format you need to select the image directly (as an image file in the binder) so Scrivener can include it properly.
Hallelujah. That worked. Not sure why I don’t remember that process from last time and I swear I tried it yesterday and it didn’t give me the option to import a photo, but maybe I just didn’t have the right thing selected. THANKS!!
Glad you got it working! Possibly last time you tried the import, you had the Draft or one of its subdocuments selected. The Draft folder can only contain text documents, so other file types like images would be greyed out in the import browser. If you run into that, just back out and choose a different location in your binder.
