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Hi RyanHua,
I would second the statements above about screen size. If you're reading raw manga then you really really need a bigger screen otherwise the furigana can be unreadable and the text itself hard to discern (depending on scan quality). Thanks to Lilman for such a great application! |
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12-11-2010, 06:40 PM | #153 |
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Hi Lilman I finally discovered Canti after googling things like "comics kindle batch editing" and expanding results from mobileread. cannot wait to leave work to try out your program!!! I recently bought a Kindle 1 solely for the purpose of creating my "Portable" virtual comic book collection and had a pretty bad first attempt last night at converting with Irfanview. No matter what I tried my 600 X 800 jpgs would be triple in size after conversion to the smaller size unless I reduced the quality from 100 to 80. And there were a million options that had little or no effect selected/unselected. Also the shrinking of the image would cause unholy amounts of grainy scan matter making them even harder to read. I really hope I solve this issue as most of my scans are from lower rent presses on not quite brown paper bag type paper that lacks the beautiful scan white contrast of a manga, I have a feeling your users who requested the contrast option may have a similar issue. Would love any input from longtime Canti users. . I have 100 gbs of scans of regular "comics" on a hdd I cant wait to unleash this program on. Do I still need to excersize a script for a library batch edit with the gui? Can't wait to take my old TMNT, Critters, Crumb and Heavy Metal ect on the long plane ride home this Christmas. Cheers and Thank for your work! Im positive its exactly what Ive been searching for! THANK YOU!
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I don't have any non-manga comics, so please let us know how yours look on the Kindle after Canti has processed them. |
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I know this is probably going to be embarrasing but I keep getting invalid file format. any ideas?
Using these settings stored in C:\Users\The Shepards\Desktop\Canti.properties: width (in pixels): 600 height (in pixels): 800 maximum dpi: original auto trim: true trim color: white trim fuzz: 15% trim cancel: 0.7 add border: false auto rotate: true color mode: grayscale num colors: 256 adjust contrast: 1 auto level: false despeckle: 1 pdf chapters: true pdf r to l: false archive chapters: false epub chapters: false auto bind: false auto split landscape scans: true split right page first: true keep unsplit scans: false allow auto split color scans: false auto split gray strictness: 0.8 auto split color strictness: 0.9 auto split buffer: 0.0 page side border: false auto sense landscape folders: true manga prefix: auto use original filenames: false archive input image folders: false delete output image folders: false image format: .jpg kindle bookmark: true comic zeal naming: false ImageMagick home directory: unrar handler: C:\Program Files\WinRAR\Rar.exe rar handler: C:\Program Files\WinRAR\Rar.exe WARNING: Invalid @image_format: .jpg ... Defaulting to original image format. Exception in thread "Thread_cmt" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.charAt(Unknown Source) at common.image.ImageMagick.<init>(ImageMagick.java:1 45) at manga.ConvertManga.main(ConvertManga.java:1296) at cantigui.ConvertMangaThread.run(CantiGUIFrame.java :1399) Last edited by Eraserhead; 12-13-2010 at 06:25 AM. |
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First, make sure ImageMagick is installed on your system. Then edit Canti.properties and update the value for @image_magick_dir. For example, here is my setting on Windows XP: image_magick_dir = C:\\Program Files\\ImageMagick-6.6.3-Q16\\ |
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I understand. I installed ImageMagick, but I only unzipped the contents of Canti directly to the desktop. I will open the Canti.properties and take a look. I havent even opened it. so if there is something to delete inside the canti properties (like the profile filler/explanations) I haven't.
I did not pay close attention to the imagemagick installer since I knew it would work in the background so if the directory defaulted to somewhere extremely random i will try to point it properly or move it to match. You will laugh but I have another program with a similar set up that I have hidden all the working folders on...just so you know what your dealing with... I will happily post my profiles but Im going to really try before I bother you again. Can't wait to get out of work today to try again. Thanks for helping the rest of us. Last edited by Eraserhead; 12-13-2010 at 01:30 PM. |
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I got it! I just reinstalled everything and am up and running. so far the program works beautifully. I can't believe how close it gets to the artwork without cutting it off! The only thing I cant figure out is a script to lose the aspect ratio to maintain the 600X800 resolution for the screen instead of ending up with images around 600x 767 or whatnot. will this space just be filled by my kindle, or should i set it to be strict (600x800) It would also be beneficial if i was smart enough to add a script that would ignore the first page (cover) of the trimming command. Thank you for your work!!!!!! I am also pleased with the size outcome (:
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I'm almost there, just wish some of my comics were a little whiter. the whiter they are, the smarter Canti is about trim.. When I wasnt adding a border they were not centered on the kindle, much happier with them centered, the whiter comics look amazing! This program is great!
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1) Increase value of @trim_fuzz. This makes the trimming algorithm less strict in determining what colors constitute the border to be trimmed. Of course this also increases the chance of trimming too much, so don't set this value too high (try increments of 10-15% to find what works best for you). 2) Change @trim_color from white to original. This will help trim non-white borders. Thanks for the feedback, I will make @add_border enabled by default for the k2 profile in the next release. |
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Really Enjoying the program. Just a few thoughts. The Kindle manga (bookmarks) are wonderful, am so glad you included that for instant recognition via picture viewer. I think it would be great if you made the title an option, and I figured out what was stopping the trim from working on the particular comic, the pages that Canti left a border on had a small black line at the top (open scanned) so I ended up doing that one by hand. When I put despeckle =1 It would trim it appropriately but lose too much detail. Nonetheless after getting the right formula your program is saving me hours of time and the outcome is usually beautiful. Thanks!
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Title is one of only two mandatory arguments (the other being parent_folder). Besides being used in the naming scheme ([title]_-_[(optional)manga/bind prefix][(optional)suffix].[file extension]), it also:
1) Allows you to save multiple series to the same output folder 2) Becomes the name of the output folder if the user doesn't specify one So if I made title not mandatory some users may experience problems. My advice is if you don't like title, you can auto rename the files afterwards (I'm sure there are simple scripts already out there to do this, specific to your os), or use @use_original_filenames (you'll still have to specify a title, but it won't be used in the output filenames). Quote:
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Hello lilman. Great program! I am using the CantiGUI right now. When I convert it to normal individual files, it comes out okay. However, I am trying to convert a .cbz file (which has bunch of images) into a epub file. I can convert it perfectly fine, but when I put it in my reader, it comes up as invalid page. Do you know what the problem is? Here is my properties.
width = 600 height = 800 max_dpi = -1 auto_trim = true trim_color = white trim_fuzz = 15 trim_cancel = 0.7 add_border = false add_border_color = white auto_rotate = true color_mode = grayscale num_colors = 256 image_format = .png pdf = false pdf_r_to_l = false archive = false archive_format = .zip epub = true epub_r_to_l = true auto_bind = false auto_bind_size = 10 auto_split_landscape_scans = true auto_split_r_first = true auto_split_keep_unsplit_scans = false allow_auto_split_color_scans = false auto_split_gray_strictness = 0.8 auto_split_color_strictness = 0.9 auto_split_buffer = 0.0 auto_split_page_side_border = false auto_sense_landscape_folders = true manga_prefix = auto page_filename_length = 4 auto_sense_suffix_length = -1 use_original_filenames = false output_base_folder = default archive_input_image_folders = false unarchive_input_image_archives = false del_output_image_folders = false kindle_bookmark = false comic_zeal_naming = false image_magick_dir = C:\\Program Files\\ImageMagick-6.6.6-Q16\\ unrar_handler = C:\\Program Files\\WinRAR\\Rar.exe rar_handler = C:\\Program Files\\WinRAR\\Rar.exe adjust_contrast = 0 auto_level = false despeckle = 0 I already checked out the quality with the normal individual files (after conversion) and I must say the quality is fabulous. If I could convert the whole .cbz into a .epub and make it work it would be perfect. |
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