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Old 03-14-2025, 04:50 PM   #1651
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Nice!
Time to test inter-panel crop option.

Btw, is it fine to use cropping mode and inter-panel crop?
Or I have to pick one of these?
One feature is for margins, one feature is between panels, these are separate features and you can use both. Hover over option to see details.
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Old 03-27-2025, 04:13 AM   #1652
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Is it possible that when you turn to a new page it is automatically zoomed into Panel View instead of showing the entire page first? It would be one less button press per page and would make the reading experience faster.
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Old 03-28-2025, 09:41 AM   #1653
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To elaborate: What I mean is that when I press the next page button on my Oasis, it shows the entire page first. I have to press the button again to zoom into panel view. I have the panel view setting to view only the top and bottom of the page. So per page I have to press the button three times: once to turn to the page, once to zoom in to the top and once to zoom into the bottom. The first press feels redundant since I always want to be zoomed in and never want to view the page in its entirety.

This may be beyond the scope of KCC. Is skipping the first button press possible in KOReader perhaps?

Sorry I realize this is very much a first world problem.
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Old 04-16-2025, 01:16 PM   #1654
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I don't think what you want is possible with the stock Amazon panel view reader.

However, I am revamping panel view support in landscape, maybe that's good enough for you? video is included.

https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc/pull/899

Kindle manga virtual panel view (4 corner portrait)
https://youtu.be/v_kIBu4q7SU

Kindle manga virtual panel view (half page landscape)
https://youtu.be/mt1Yhngs3B4

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Old 04-18-2025, 05:43 PM   #1655
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KCC 7.4.1 is out! Highlights are:

New panel view method (4 corner portrait/half page landscape)
fixed unsupported directory structure
adjustable file splitting size
a preserve crop margin % slider
various fixes to stuck mobi conversions
fix ._ files causing corrupt/cannot identify image error on macOS external drives (7.2.0 regression)

And lots of other small fixes!

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Old 04-27-2025, 03:47 PM   #1656
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I used KCC again after a while for some new manga and it looks like either an update to Kindle Oasis 2 or a new way the ePub is generated adds an option called just Animation on the Layout setting in my Kindle. I can't see any difference with it on or off, anyone knows what this could be? It doesn't look like it is the page turning animation modern Kindles have.
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Old 04-27-2025, 05:33 PM   #1657
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It is the panel view animation. double click a corner and see what happens when turning pages in panel view mode. I think it looks terrible.

Edit: oh. Looks like the page turn animation option isn't visible for some books. Hmmmm. When did that happen?

Edit2: panel view changes caused the option to dissapear. The animation still works if you enabled the option in a different book. So it's just a UI bug where the option isn't visible in the KCC converted book. I'm pretty sure this is a kindle OS bug with mobi files...

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Old 05-01-2025, 12:28 PM   #1658
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I recently updated my KCC to 7.4.1 (was using 7.0.0 before), and the app converts them much faster, I really like it!, however I have a problem with the converted manga Titles, I used to setup the title I wanted with ComicTagger in the "Title" field and it would show up in Calibre and on my Kindle using that title, now it seems to do a combo of the "Series" field + "Issue" and "Volume" fields.

I added an image as an example, any way to restore the old behavior?
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Old 05-01-2025, 02:26 PM   #1659
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That behavior change was reverted in 7.3.x
You could go back to 7.2.3, it still has most of the speed optimizations.

Some people complained that it wasn't using the Series/Vol field so it got reverted. Some comicvine metadata has the title field be stuff like "Volume 1" which is a bad default.

Can you just use the filename instead and not set the fields in comictagger?

What does a comictagger xml file even look like if its generated from comicvine? did you get data from comicvine?

This was relevant discussion: https://github.com/ciromattia/kcc/issues/854

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Old 05-07-2025, 06:53 AM   #1660
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KCC 7.4.1 is out! Highlights are:

New panel view method (4 corner portrait/half page landscape)

And lots of other small fixes!
For me, disabling panel view is the best upgrade.
Before, reading KCC-made mobi comics was like tiptoeing around to avoid triggering panel view.
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Old 05-08-2025, 03:41 PM   #1661
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Wonderful release! (7.4.1) The update in the panel view is one of the best upgrades so far. Half page landscape works really good, and is a great way to read. Please keep it forever!!
And maybe just add a note or message to notify that the new panel view is now embbeded in the kindle options, I was lost because now the panel view option in KCC is disable for newer models.
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Old 05-08-2025, 07:42 PM   #1662
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The new panel view implementation was an interesting task.

You can take a look at the PR for details, but it was quite a journey to figure out how to make it work properly in all cases, with undocumented bugs in the JPG renderer for MOBI/AZW3. Amazon is unlikely to ever fix them.

Sure glad you can disable it too, accidental activations are annoying. And don't get me started on the fast page turn in KFX manga accidental activations...
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Old 05-12-2025, 12:38 PM   #1663
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Hi could anyone tell me why the Panel View box is grayed out?
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Old 05-12-2025, 01:24 PM   #1664
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Hi could anyone tell me why the Panel View box is grayed out?
KCC panel view implementaiton has been redone.

If you previously used the panel view box unchecked, that behavior is now enabled and disabled in the Kindle Aa menu. The old method didn't work on Kindle Scribe, but the new one does.

If you previously used the panel view box partially checked, that behavior has been replaced with half page panel view when you are in landscape.

If you previously used the panel view box fully checked, that had bugs on newer kindles causing conversion speed/quality issues. So that has been removed. If you truly want a higher resolution image when you zoom in, just use the Kindle Scribe profile, which is the highest resolution possible for kindlegen.

Which option were you using?
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Old 05-13-2025, 10:51 PM   #1665
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KCC panel view implementaiton has been redone.

If you previously used the panel view box unchecked, that behavior is now enabled and disabled in the Kindle Aa menu. The old method didn't work on Kindle Scribe, but the new one does.

If you previously used the panel view box partially checked, that behavior has been replaced with half page panel view when you are in landscape.

If you previously used the panel view box fully checked, that had bugs on newer kindles causing conversion speed/quality issues. So that has been removed. If you truly want a higher resolution image when you zoom in, just use the Kindle Scribe profile, which is the highest resolution possible for kindlegen.

Which option were you using?
Thank you for the detailed response.

I wasn't using either option. This is new to me and I was still experimenting. None of the tutorials online seem to cover this new change. They all reference the older, original method.
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