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Old 06-11-2022, 04:00 PM   #1
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Creating comic books into E-books my way

Dum dee dum.

Hello folks.

I admit I only did a quick glance for this and didn't see it already. Sorry if it is. :/

I've mentioned before that I use my calibre library for listing my comic book archive collection. I like my current set-up as I've figured out what works for me. And have ran across comments on other sites regarding its un-ease of use for them or their ability to learn to just click-and-go to use it. True it may not handle drop-in with the ease the way they'd prefer, but mine does exactly what I look for it to. Oh, well, go figure some people. :P

Now I'll get to what I'm posting about. If you'd already tried this ignore me and go about your fun-filled day. :/

One feature calibre handles is its ability to handle comic books and its e-viewer. Admittedly, I'm a poor user for Calibre, and so I blame myself for it's spectacular, but not star-shining example that day. So I resorted to using "Click to open" then dragging the format: cbr, cbz, etc. to a comic book viewer on the side since then.

Last night as I was messing about in one of my "created" books I wanted to keep from a hard worn copy, but in e-pub book that included illustrations my mind wandered as it tends to do and even after I went to bed and slept a bit I finally figured out what it was trying to tell me.

Today I tried it and my results have proven once again that Calibre Library is the greatest, ever. My results enable me to use Calibre Library to e-pub my comics perfectly. Use the Calibre viewer exactly as it already has settings I use, and can even drag to resize as I want it. And the epub comic allows me to not need to resize the viewer - if I choose not to.

Comic I choose was the first Annie Oakley and Tagg

Step 1: Click on "add books"
Step 2: "choose" ... Add empty book (book entry with no formats)

For my example I filled in:
(1) book
Author: Annie Oakley_Tagg, 1956
Series: Annie Oakley and Tag
Title was simply: Annie Oakley and Tagg 001
Format choosen: e-book
Clicked okay, and now have my empty book . . . still no "cover image"

Next I dragged the front cover onto the empty book. Did a quick "simple" "convert".

Went to "Edit"

1. Imported each of the books image files (Sample numbering is 1.jpg) (each page) that I had exploded from my cbr format back into a single folder. Otherwise you can use whatever you've named those images.

Note: Whenever I created image files from my comics I numbered them as 1-35, etc. Now I'm glad I did that.

2. I used the already created titlepage.xhtml and will use this as my copy paste sample page to recreate pages 1 - 35

3. Click on "New File" that is the upper left hand corner of the editor and looks like a page with a + on it.

4. The new file I named as 1.xhtml. Erase all text on that page and replace it with the titlepage.xhtml. The only change I made was (cover.jpeg) to 1.jpg

(recopy the information on this page - once and use it for each page thereafter - only changing the page number to match the files name)

That's why I'm so happy I used such a simple numbering for those pages. And now I can keep and download an empty book to Calibre minus its cover and images easily.

[For each new comic/epub now it's simple to drop the empty sample epub onto Calibre / add the cover, do a quick convert. Open editor and insert the page images. All done and now I have the latest comic book in epub.]

In the beginning for my comics when I was handling my comic pages I would allow whatever the image creator or screen grab numbering it wanted to assign or manually change to its sequencing. Later I learned to use my mac-mini's "automator" and now quickly change the name to a sequenced numbering.

I know some of you tech-wizard's out there will shake your head and do this easier, faster and better. Maybe have been doing this all the time. :/

But if you haven't tried this, my results came out exactly as I always wished they would in Calibre. :/

Thanks again, to every one that adds to Calibre's growth and especially "thanks" to its creator.

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Old 06-11-2022, 06:07 PM   #2
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