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Old 05-02-2010, 05:44 PM   #11
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Now that I have an iPad to play with, I've had a chance to test out what's the best way to view manga on it. I've decided to give up on epub development as manga on the iPad is best experienced in a comic reader such as ComicZeal. I will finish the binding for epub code since it is almost done, but after that I am done with epubs.

I've found the optimal settings for iPad manga to be:
-Leave width and height of the original scans alone. No need to reduce them to 1024x768 as the larger images are better to zoom on. The current version of Canti doesn't support leaving the width and height unspecified, but the next version will (I already coded it).
-Still trim white space and autorotate
-I'll leave pdf output on be default (since it doesn't take up much processing time and pdf manga looks great in apps such as Goodreader), but I highly recommend using .cbz zip archives and a comic reader (I use ComicZeal).

v1.5 should be released in the next 1-2 days. Aside from the features listed above, it will also add single folder mode so that you can specify a single folder of manga to process rather than batch processing an organized collection of manga.
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