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Old 02-01-2009, 09:45 AM   #23
pozo
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Hey there, thanks for the info, it's very helpfull. I have a kind of aversion to any black box program like Calibre (which implements comic2lrf I believe) so I'm going to do my own conversions using irfanview.
Calibre managed to increase filesize for 1 volume by 50% (2.03 MB uncompressed cbz to 3.02 MB lrf) so that's not really desirable either

I'll only recieve my reader next week or so (just ordered at waterstones, regular 'land' shipping to the Netherlands). Therfore I'm not able to experiment myself yet, but I do want to start converting my collections.

I have a few questions on which I was unable to find information/experiences:
I have a scanslated manga in jpg with varying resolutions, from 750 to 810 in height and 450-500 in width. I understand from this forum that the images will be stretched/shrunk to fit correctly.
  1. If I was to resize them all to [width]x800, and view them in landscape mode to maximise viewing space, would I need to rotate them clockwise 90 degrees too?
  2. Or should I just make them all height 767 as there is not much of a difference?
  3. Nevermind this one, silly question now that I've thought about it.Will it help to store them as 8 grayscale level PNG's? Will the reader use the same levels or still adjust something? And what fileformat is faster (if any), GIF or PNG?
  4. Should I pad the width to 567/600 (depending on portrait/landscape) or does that make no difference for the viewer?

Thanks for any answers :-)

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