What about a comic viewer?

[Snooty]

This should be pretty easy for a capable coder - a program to view comics stored in ComicDisplay format - these are just JPEG files stored in ZIP or RAR archives.

The GP32 ought to be quite good for this sort of thing, I'd have thought. Just select a level of zoom and pan around the comic to read it. There are thousands of comics out there in CDisplay format (see http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics/ for instance), and you could fit a fair few titles on a 128mb memory card.

I was thinking of attempting a program like this myself, but I suspect my C++ skills simply aren't up to it. Mind you, there must be JPEG-opening code freely available somewhere.

Any takers?

 

[Mikel70]

I, personally, would LOVE to see a comic reader for the GP32!! I've been converting the individual page files to an 800 length resolution, creating a file roughly 70-100 kbs in size per page. So each issue takes roughly 2-3 megs on a 128 meg card. I can still hold almost 50 issues, it's just a pain to convert them all. I'd love to see a program so that I didn't have to convert them over. If I knew the first thing about programming for the device, that would be my first project.

BTW, I use GPFM (the file manager) to view the pages I make, and they look great

 

[Shrike]

I made this suggestion a while back and me and another coder were gonna do it, we then realised neither of us had the skill

 

[Snooty]

I have to wonder how much skill it would take. Most of the code could probably be taken from GPL projects.

I only have Windows (Visual C++) programming experience, but I'm considering the possibility of learning how to code for the GP32 so that I could do this. It'd make the GP32 even better value, that's for sure.

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

if its just jpeg, why dont you simply unzip the files into a directory on your gp32 and read them using GPFM?

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

Get photoshop and create a script to automatically open, resize, and save images. Its not that hard.

 

[Mikel70]

"if its just jpeg, why dont you simply unzip the files into a directory on your gp32 and read them using GPFM? "

Because some of the pages/files, once unzipped, are VERY large. As a result, the jpg viewers currently available have a REALLY hard time reading them.

 

[Mikel70]

"Get photoshop and create a script to automatically open, resize, and save images. Its not that hard"

Already did that with ThumbsPlus. :lol: Not too difficult now. Just point and click. Just a little time consuming

 

[SatanClaus]

I'm using Irfan View to rescale my comics

 

[trooper]

I'm using Irfan View to rescale my comics

Irfanview has to be the best viewer/converter available.
I have been using it for years, Best of all, It free.

Trooper

 

[EvilDragon]

"if its just jpeg, why dont you simply unzip the files into a directory on your gp32 and read them using GPFM? "

Because some of the pages/files, once unzipped, are VERY large. As a result, the jpg viewers currently available have a REALLY hard time reading them.

Would be strange, cause jpg already is pretty compressed... zipping shouldn't make a big difference.

 

[Mikel70]

"if its just jpeg, why dont you simply unzip the files into a directory on your gp32 and read them using GPFM? "

Because some of the pages/files, once unzipped, are VERY large. As a result, the jpg viewers currently available have a REALLY hard time reading them.

Would be strange, cause jpg already is pretty compressed... zipping shouldn't make a big difference.

I would have thought so too, but I had one image, over 300 k, that wouldn't load.

 

[abbibi]

Perhaps it would be less of a strain on the gp32 if you cropped the pages into individual panels. You retain all the quality, and it takes less time to load.

 

[Shrike]

that was what the idea me and herb12 had, a program to select panels, change size and colours and resolution and stuff then save them as a whatever file

 

[kraahl]

Are there any manga available in this special format?

 

[Rico]

Get photoshop and create a script to automatically open, resize, and save images. Its not that hard.

If you can pay for it, that is. Or try GIMP.

 

[SatanClaus]

Get photoshop and create a script to automatically open, resize, and save images. Its not that hard.

If you can pay for it, that is. Or try GIMP.

Irfan View - free, small, fast

 

[NiN^_^NiN]

Use Irfan view i use it for everything you can just put the comic images into a dir then set irfan view to resize all the image sin the directory very hand tool for quick editing like croping etc and great for conversions and batch conversions

h34r:

 

[Snooty]

Are there any manga available in this special format?

Yup, loads.