Finally ready for intial release. I've converted a lot of my collection already and now it's ready for the public to test.
(a good thing that you can open multiple instances of this program)
Sorry, windows only for now.
Goal
Manga2Ebook is created to autoconvert vast manga/comics -collection(s) to a PDF-file(s) with the intention to for reprocessing through a PDF to readerformat tool.
Wether your Ebook-reader can read the PDF-files depends on the reader.
If you are using the Sony Reader or Irex Ilyad, I'd recommend you to run the PDF-files through the free program RasterFarian. This will rasterize the PDF-files and makes it them suitable for your device (and the size would decrease too)
Usage
Select the main directory with the archives you want to combine into a PDF. Manga2Ebook can handle zip, cbz, rar and cbr-files.
Manga2Ebook will create a subdirectory named "destination" for it's files (if it doesn't exist yet). The size of this directory will be at least 2 times as big as the source directory, so make sure you have enough diskspace.
Step 1 Re-archiving
The title of the archive(s) will be used to determine the sorting as they will eventually be the "chapter"-title in the PDF-file, so if you haven't done so yet, I'd recommend you to sort and rename your archives with good naming. (rasterfarian can convert these into a TOC too)
Manga2Ebook will try to recursive unpack the archives, but only the main archive will be the chaptertitle. (example: Manga.zip contains chapter1.zip, chapter2.zip. Manga2Ebook will make the chaptername "Manga". The files found in the other archives will merely be pages)
Within the selected directory, a temporary process-directory will be made where the files are unpacked, sorted into folders (so if you have a chapter1.zip and a ch2.zip in Manga.zip, the ch2 files will go before chapter1 files. You're responsible for sorting your own collection).
Step 2 Image processing
After unarchiving the images will be processed in correspondence to the settings. These will be placed underneath a "destination/resized"-folder.
Step 3 PDF creation
The final step is the PDF-creation. From the images and folderstructure in the resized folder, a PDF will be created. This will be placed in the destination folder.
The "document"-titlevalue will determine the file's name.
Final steps. Run the PDF files through your favorite converter for your ebook-reader if needed
notes: I've managed to create LRS and LRF-files too, but this option has been removed, because the LRF-files rasterized by rasterfarian are smaller. And lrs2lrf can only be run once.... (running 2 lrs2lrf will corrupt things up)
My favorite image processing options are: trimming borders with fuzz and the resizing filter. This gives very good quality images.
despeckle is good too, but it takes a much longer time and the effect is minimal, so I've disabled it.
Download, unpack and open "manga2ebook.exe"
http://kmfstudio.com/downloads/Manga2Ebook.rar <- base program
http://kmfstudio.com/downloads/Manga...ckIncluded.rar <-imagemagick included
More info here. (i'll try to update this topic too, but I'll update it at my homepage first.