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01-03-2008, 02:17 PM | #17 |
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The thumbnail generation was a bit irritating. Maybe it is possible to pre-generate this file. If you have a computer available you can always have files in sub-directories and rename them with a . first if you do not want to show them. Then rename them when you want to read them.
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01-03-2008, 02:25 PM | #18 |
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I was going to suggest Doujinshi, but I couldn't find copyright notices on those websites, so I didn't want to risk uploading a copyrighted image OR using a copyrighted character. (for novices, a doujinshi is a manga written by an amateur author, but using well known characters from famous manga, as a sort of tribute.)
What I've uploaded are some old manga images taken from wikipedia and marked as copyright-free. These are from Hokusai and Kotaro, and by size and proportions they fit our needs. Also I noticed something interesting. When I build a Mobipocket format book made of jpgs, the image displayed as "cover" will have no borders, thus using all the screen's space. When one starts reading the next pages, the borders appear. Maybe there's a way to mark more images with the same "cover" characteristics so they all fit the whole screen. I'll try with tompe's suggestion, but now I must leave for home. See you in some hours. Thank you guys. |
01-03-2008, 03:49 PM | #19 |
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There is some data in the header file that points out the cover image. I tested to point to two images but it only took the last one so it did not work.
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01-03-2008, 10:18 PM | #20 | |
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I was able to make a test MOBI by repeating the single Kotaro image and using a simple HTML file and html2mobi (MobiPocket Creator or mobigen.exe would presumably also have worked if given the same HTML file). The basic element of the HTML is:
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01-03-2008, 10:36 PM | #21 | |
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I wonder why the format was 192x144 instead of 144x192? |
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01-04-2008, 07:29 AM | #22 |
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01-06-2008, 03:13 AM | #23 |
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Yes, that's why it's a good idea to try to use cover images with an aspect ration of 1.5 to 1 - the same as that of the thumbnail. I've standardised on using 600x400 covers.
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01-07-2008, 06:15 AM | #24 |
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You are using Windows, screenreader? If yes, try Manga2Ebook - if you're using Linux, you could try my Bash script which depends on the GIMP, ImageMagick and libtiff (the scm file goes into GIMP's script folder and the gpl file into GIMP's palette folder).
I didn't try Manga2Ebook, but my script produces good PDF's which work great with the Cybook. Page turning is sometimes a bit slow, but that's the only problem I noticed. Last edited by IceHand; 03-29-2008 at 09:29 AM. Reason: Forgot to include the GIMP palette |
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Hi, Icehand!! Yes, using Windows here. I'll try Manga2ebook, although I tested so many things that maybe I tested it and didn't work. I will test it again, however.
My problem is somewhat solved... but not how I expected: -I gave up using mobipocket format because the image was reduced too much becasuse of the margins. -I gave up using pdf because it always gets corrupted at some point, pages start showing blank and the Cybook even crashes. So in the end I decided to follow Krystian Galaj's advice from the first page. I copied all the jpgs in the card and the books in the Cybooks internal memory. This way, after I am done reading manga, I turn off the power, insert the card in the pc, delete all read pages and it's ready for another use. It's a boring and slow procedure... but it's the only way to read some hundred pages without annoying blank pages or the device crashing. I just hope that announced zip support for image files will be definitely present in the next firmware release. Thank you everybody for your concern and your help. |
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One thing I noticed, though, is that the images aren't centered on the screen, but aligned to the left border, which feels kinda weird, and doesn't work so well with the carrying case, since at least my particular one obscures the left and upper part of the screen somewhat. This isn't a dealbreaker, though, but until that firmware update comes along, it'd be awesome if the script could be modified to fix this (unfortunately I have no idea how, I'm really new with linux, you see. Actually dug out the ubuntu 7.10 cd I had lying around, only used it for testing so far, but this gave me a reason to keep linux as a permanent addition on my computer) |
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EDIT: I just remembered something from the manga2pdf thread, are you using an older version of ImageMagick that does not support the -extent option? Last edited by IceHand; 04-09-2008 at 07:46 AM. |
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EDIT: Getting the latest version seems to be tricky business in ubuntu, since there's only an .rpm installer available. Have tried converting the .rpm, as well as compiling from source, but both procedures seem to fail, one because ubuntu can't install the converted package, the other just doesn't work after all the compiling and installing. And now the version available from the package manager doesn't seem to work either. Oh well, it was worth a shot. I guess I'll just reinstall ubuntu, and make due with the old ImageMagick version. Man, I wish I knew how all this linux-stuff really works. Last edited by Myrddhin; 04-12-2008 at 07:46 AM. Reason: Update |
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04-12-2008, 09:23 AM | #29 |
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Don't reinstall. Try this package: http://undesigned.org.za/2008/03/13/...for-ubuntu-710
If that doesn't work, try making a forced reinstall of the ImageMagick package from Synaptic. Reinstalling the whole system should never be required with Linux unless you majorly screw something up (never happened to me). Last edited by IceHand; 04-12-2008 at 09:30 AM. |
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Now I no longer need to yearn for that upcoming firmware update xD |
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