K5 Annoying comic rendering in PW 5.3.0

duelle · 12-03-2012, 10:18 PM

I finally updated to 5.3.0 now that the jailbreak is out and Amazon changed the way comics are rendered. Before, there was no image manipulation whatsoever, but now it autocrops blank areas around the edges, which softens the the image by slightly enlarging it. This is very annoying when I specifically formatted my comics to the resolution of the PW and they looked very crisp and clear.

I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to turn this off via some command or, failing that, revert to 5.2.0. It's kind of a dealbreaker considering I read about as many comics as I do books on it.

stepk · 12-04-2012, 02:43 PM

As a work-around, have you considered watermarking a 1x1 black dot in (0,0) and (max-x,max-y) to keep the viewer from auto-cropping?

duelle · 12-04-2012, 08:35 PM

Hmm, it would probably work, but I don't know of any way to do it very quickly. Do you know of a good program that can do it as a batch operation?

knc1 · 12-04-2012, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duelle

Hmm, it would probably work, but I don't know of any way to do it very quickly. Do you know of a good program that can do it as a batch operation?

Gimp.

hawhill · 12-05-2012, 07:07 AM

Or good old ImageMagick, which is quite powerful for image manipulation (except for actual drawing).

knc1 · 12-05-2012, 07:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawhill

Or good old ImageMagick, which is quite powerful for image manipulation (except for actual drawing).

Probably a better choice.
Scripting Gimp is not exactly easy (even for experts).

duelle · 12-05-2012, 04:43 PM

I ended up using Irfanview which has an option in its batch mode to add borders and since I already use Irfanview for resizing, it doesn't really add any extra steps.

twobob · 12-05-2012, 05:04 PM

good deal

12-03-2012, 10:18 PM	#1
duelle Member Posts: 12 Karma: 485352 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Sony PRS-T1, Kindle PW	Annoying comic rendering in PW 5.3.0 I finally updated to 5.3.0 now that the jailbreak is out and Amazon changed the way comics are rendered. Before, there was no image manipulation whatsoever, but now it autocrops blank areas around the edges, which softens the the image by slightly enlarging it. This is very annoying when I specifically formatted my comics to the resolution of the PW and they looked very crisp and clear. I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to turn this off via some command or, failing that, revert to 5.2.0. It's kind of a dealbreaker considering I read about as many comics as I do books on it.

12-05-2012, 05:04 PM	#8
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12-04-2012, 02:43 PM	#2
stepk Zealot Posts: 147 Karma: 511590 Join Date: Oct 2012 Device: K5 B011 5.3.2.1	As a work-around, have you considered watermarking a 1x1 black dot in (0,0) and (max-x,max-y) to keep the viewer from auto-cropping?

12-04-2012, 08:35 PM	#3
duelle Member Posts: 12 Karma: 485352 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Sony PRS-T1, Kindle PW	Hmm, it would probably work, but I don't know of any way to do it very quickly. Do you know of a good program that can do it as a batch operation?

12-05-2012, 07:07 AM	#5
hawhill Guru Posts: 768 Karma: 1646497 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle 3 WiFi	Or good old ImageMagick, which is quite powerful for image manipulation (except for actual drawing).

12-05-2012, 04:43 PM	#7
duelle Member Posts: 12 Karma: 485352 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Sony PRS-T1, Kindle PW	I ended up using Irfanview which has an option in its batch mode to add borders and since I already use Irfanview for resizing, it doesn't really add any extra steps.


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