[lilman]

Originally Posted by grogthegreat

I had to copy my Java folder in "Program Files (x86)" to my "Program Files" folder or the program would fail when dealing with multiple folders. Easy to do but might be very very hard to figure out for those that know nothing of programming.

I don't have the slightest clue why you need to do that. Then again I am unfamiliar with XP 64bit. Thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by grogthegreat

1: If it is easy to do, make the program work on XP 64bit out of the box.

Should be easy enough, just pm me the exact locations of ImageMagick, rar handler, and unrar handler on your system (you can just copy/paste that section of the .properties file) and I'll add that intel into Canti.

Originally Posted by grogthegreat

2: Have the option of putting all the chapters into one big PDF document. I organize my manga in Manga_Name>VolXX>CXX. If I select the volume, I get a PDF for each chapter. It would be cool if I had the option to get one PDF of the entire volume as if I had bought the book.
Right now a program called pdfsam does a great job of combining the chapter pdfs so till this becomes a feature (or is it doesn't) than we have a solution.

I wanted this feature too, but it currently isn't doable. ImageMagick has a tendency to fail while creating large pdf docs (anything over 200 pages is hit/miss). So unless I write my own pdf creation code (which I currently have no plans for since I'm busy with other projects) you'll have to rely on outside programs for making large pdfs.

Originally Posted by grogthegreat

3: Could the program look one folder deeper? I know you don't organize your manga like this; but if you had your folders some thing like One_Piece>Volume01>Ch001 than it would let you select the "One_Piece" folder as the parent_folder and you would end up with your choice of a PDF for each chapter, a PDF for each volume, or one giant PDF for the entire manga.

I've tried coding this before, and I can't remember why but it was logically a pita. Wait, they may have been because I was trying to do two things at once; I think I was trying to support one folder deep at the same time as supporting multiple chapters at the same folder level based on filenames... thinking about it now the former should be possible but the latter fails under certain conditions. Next time I work on Canti I'll try adding this in again.

Originally Posted by grogthegreat

Thanks for the great work. I'm not a programmer so I don't know how easy or hard my suggestions are to implement but please consider them.

Thanks again and hope you had a great Xmass!

Thanks for sharing your suggestions. For future reference I'm trying to move Canti discussion to its new home at bitcake, so if you have any more suggestions please leave them over there (there's currently a thread of Canti suggestions there: http://www.bitcake.com/?x=entry:entry101219-090355).

Happy holidays everyone!