[lilman]

Originally Posted by badbob001

Yes, at this point, I think I'm going to stick with JPG, but I was just curious if GIF would be sharper. Curious how the PNGs created by Mangle are much smaller than even Canti's JPG output.

I did some research on why the .gif images are coming out with weird sizes. Apparently when ImageMagick crops a .gif it leaves the canvas size of the original image. A lot of image viewers will ignore the transparent outer borders, but some don't. I don't have a solution for this since I like to leave all image processing to ImageMagick. For now I will probably leave it alone.

Originally Posted by badbob001

Any chance the next version will move the unarchiving temp folder from the parent_folder to the output_folder? This would allow me to work with read-only media, read-only network shares, and cut down the back and forth on network shares. Or perhaps have a setting to specify an over-riding temp folder.

I'm still thinking how to implement this. It's not as simple as saying "hey put parent_folder temp files over there instead of in parent_folder". Well, it would have been that simple in the older versions of Canti, but Canti's new brain makes everything more tricky (faster, but tricky). To be honest it's not on the top of my to-do list since I like having parent_folder writable (I'm constantly adding new comics to my collection, and also a lot of times I let Canti archive the parent_folder image folders, which requires write permission). In fact, a good chunk of code in Canti is dealing with an ever expanding series, which of course implies that you have write access to add new files to the series. But I guess if you have a comic library that you never update (like a collection of older comics) then you could make do with read-only access to parent_folder. I will let you know if I figure out a good way to do this.

Originally Posted by badbob001

Do you know if the .manga and .manga_save extensions are actually officially created by Amazon for the kindle, implying that they had manga support in mind?

I forgot where I learned about .manga and .manga_save... I think someone stumbled upon on it while playing with a Kindle. I don't think Amazon has publicized manga on the Kindle before. There was an article recently on how Yen Press and Dark Horse are going to be opening up digital manga stores in the next few months. And another company was opening a digital manga storefront as well... oh yeah, Square Enix: http://www.square-enix.com/na/manga/. I'm guessing Amazon thought that the digital manga market would eventually catch on and so they implemented the bookmark system early.