Use ImageMagick instead of Qt to generate thumbnails when sending covers to device.

src/calibre/gui2/device.py

@@ -9,9 +9,8 @@ from itertools import repeat
 from functools import partial
 from binascii import unhexlify
 
-from PyQt4.Qt import QMenu, QAction, QActionGroup, QIcon, SIGNAL, QPixmap, \
+from PyQt4.Qt import QMenu, QAction, QActionGroup, QIcon, SIGNAL, \
-                     Qt, pyqtSignal, QColor, QPainter, QDialog, QMessageBox
+                     Qt, pyqtSignal, QDialog, QMessageBox
-from PyQt4.QtSvg import QSvgRenderer
 
 from calibre.customize.ui import available_input_formats, available_output_formats, \
     device_plugins
@@ -21,7 +20,7 @@ from calibre.gui2.dialogs.choose_format import ChooseFormatDialog
 from calibre.utils.ipc.job import BaseJob
 from calibre.devices.scanner import DeviceScanner
 from calibre.gui2 import config, error_dialog, Dispatcher, dynamic, \
-                        pixmap_to_data, warning_dialog, \
+                        warning_dialog, \
                         question_dialog, info_dialog, choose_dir
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata import authors_to_string
 from calibre import preferred_encoding, prints
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ from calibre.devices.folder_device.driver import FOLDER_DEVICE
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.meta import set_metadata
 from calibre.constants import DEBUG
 from calibre.utils.config import prefs, tweaks
-
+from calibre.utils.magick.draw import thumbnail
 # }}}
 
 class DeviceJob(BaseJob): # {{{
@@ -617,14 +616,8 @@ class DeviceMixin(object): # {{{
             self.connect_to_folder_named(tweaks['auto_connect_to_folder'])
 
     def set_default_thumbnail(self, height):
-        r = QSvgRenderer(I('book.png'))
+        img = I('book.png', data=True)
-        pixmap = QPixmap(height, height)
+        self.default_thumbnail = thumbnail(img, height, height)
-        pixmap.fill(QColor(255,255,255))
-        p = QPainter(pixmap)
-        r.render(p)
-        p.end()
-        self.default_thumbnail = (pixmap.width(), pixmap.height(),
-                pixmap_to_data(pixmap))
 
     def connect_to_folder_named(self, folder):
         if os.path.exists(folder) and os.path.isdir(folder):
@@ -959,13 +952,12 @@ class DeviceMixin(object): # {{{
                 self.library_view.model().delete_books_by_id(remove)
 
     def cover_to_thumbnail(self, data):
-        p = QPixmap()
-        p.loadFromData(data)
-        if not p.isNull():
         ht = self.device_manager.device.THUMBNAIL_HEIGHT \
                 if self.device_manager else DevicePlugin.THUMBNAIL_HEIGHT
-            p = p.scaledToHeight(ht, Qt.SmoothTransformation)
+        try:
-            return (p.width(), p.height(), pixmap_to_data(p))
+            return thumbnail(data, ht, ht)
+        except:
+            pass
 
     def email_news(self, id):
         opts = email_config().parse()

src/calibre/utils/magick/draw.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 from calibre.utils.magick import Image, DrawingWand, create_canvas
 from calibre.constants import __appname__, __version__
+from calibre import fit_image
 
 def save_cover_data_to(data, path, bgcolor='white', resize_to=None):
     '''
@@ -23,6 +24,17 @@ def save_cover_data_to(data, path, bgcolor='white', resize_to=None):
     canvas.compose(img)
     canvas.save(path)
 
+def thumbnail(data, width=120, height=120, bgcolor='white', fmt='jpg'):
+    img = Image()
+    img.load(data)
+    owidth, oheight = img.size
+    scaled, nwidth, nheight = fit_image(owidth, oheight, width, height)
+    if scaled:
+        img.size = (nwidth, nheight)
+    canvas = create_canvas(img.size[0], img.size[1], bgcolor)
+    canvas.compose(img)
+    return (canvas.size[0], canvas.size[1], canvas.export(fmt))
+
 def identify_data(data):
     '''
     Identify the image in data. Returns a 3-tuple