foosoft/mangle

Manga processor for the Kindle e-book reader.

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mangle's Issues

Stretch image to fill screen changes image aspect ratio

I'd prefer it if it preserved the original aspect ratio, for very low resolution images.

Suggestion: Command Line Interface

Don't quite know how to implement it or if theres plans on implementing it, but it would be nice to be able to use the command line to run this program directly from the command line. Something like this:

$./mangle.py --device kindle3 --rotate auto --exportdir F:/pics/Nagato/ /Nagato_No_Yuki_San/

Migrate from PyQt4 to Qt for Python (PySide2)

Make the program a package

Hi,

It would be cool if you could make everything except mangle.pyw a package, so I can just install the package into site-packages and the launcher script into the bin directory, for an Arch Linux package.

Incorrect sorting for windows style numbering

I have a bunch of images named this way :

• File (1).jpg
• File (2).jpg
• ...
• File (10).jpg
• File (11).jpg

While windows can sort them in the "correct" way.
Mangle sort them up unix style :

• File (1).jpg
• File (10).jpg
• File (11).jpg
• File (2).jpg
• ...

How to run locally from source?

How do I run this locally from source? Windows or Mac, either is fine. My background includes web development in Python3 Flask. venv, etc

Can anyone help figure out how to build a binary for the Python3 port?

@gigajosh

The Python3 port is just a copy paste of your branch, do you know how?

Just an update for the new kindle.

I would submit a pull request, but I don't think that's even warranted for one line of code. also, I'm not sure of the palette on the new Kindle, though I am guessing it is more similar to that on the Kindle 4. Also, I'm no python programmer, and this is all I can really offer. Hopefully in the future I can do more.
For now, though, adding this to the Profiles section of mangle/images.py:

'Kindle Paperwhite': ((758, 1024), Palette15b),

Thank you, and keep up the good work.

Suggestion: Add way to specify default device

Might be a fun project for someone new to project. Probably just read a txt file in the same directory.

I've ported the code to Python 3 and PyQt5 !

Hi, I've updated the code for Python 3 and PyQt5 locally.
I've now successfully run the updated application with Python 3 from terminal on Mac and used it to generate a 50+ page comic with the "Images & CBZ & PDF" option for Kindle Paperwhite. I've played with the other options, like stretching and borders and they seem to work.
I've tested saving and re-opening a .mngl file, deleting added images works fine.
Would you like to update this repo with these changes, i.e. shall I create Pull request for this, or would you prefer I fork your repo and do it there?
Congrats for the work on this!

Invert file order

Is there an easy way to swap the file order when a folder is loaded ?

Prebuilt executable is old/has bugs (And I made a new one)

Please update the included prebuilt executable! PR #34 shows how to build it!

It's old and has bugs that have been already been fixed. (Like split page overwriting).

And include it using GitHub releases!

If you add me as a contributor I'll do it myself :)

Here's one I built myself:

https://github.com/axu2/mangle/releases

Convert to dynamically generated UI

Hi,

PyQt can load UI files directly, it would be cool if you could switch to it. Then you wouldn't need to have pre-compiled not-to-be-modified source code (and a makefile, which is totally unnecessary then) in the repository and it would make development easier.

CBZ files is not visible in my collection in Kindle Paperwhite

Wishlist: Japanese page order

It's very cool that mangle has the "split page" option. Unfortunately it doesn't work for Japanese-language manga. The reason is that, if the scan is double-page, Western order will result like this:

0.jpg: [1|2]
1.jpg: [3|4]
2.jpg: [5|6]

(where the brackets represent images and the numbers, pages.) Japanese order, meanwhile, is like this:

0.jpg: [2|1]
1.jpg: [4|3]
2.jpg: [6|5]

I.e. the right half of each image comes first.

Would it be possible to add a binary option to use Japanese page order?

Thanks for great software!

What is the best way to convert the result to mobi/azw3?

I have the Kindle Paperwhite 4 model. When I process the images through Mangle and convert them to mobi through Calibre, even if I select not to process the images again, the result seen on the Kindle is images centered on the screen, none of the edges of the image touch the edges of the Kindle screen. Is there any way to get a result similar to KCC, with the images taking up as much of the screen as possible but without distortion?

Issues with setup.py

Currently it only supports Windows, and does not have any of the dependencies listed. You may want to think about using setuptools.

Also, the scripts have

#!/usr/bin/env python

when they should specify that they use python2.

Support for CBZ

Hi,

It would be cool, if Mangle was able to output CBZ files. I just put all the exported files in a ZIP file, renamed it to CBZ and that's it (therefore can be done easily with Python's zipfile module). The advantage is that managing CBZ files is far easier than a bunch of normal files.

Heck, I think I should sit down and write some patches myself :)

Add new Kindle device profiles

Please add conversion options for the new Kindle 4's.

New profile for Kindle Paperwhite 3.

Hi!

Please add a profile for the "Kindle Paperwhite 3". The resolution of this device is 1448 × 1072 (300ppi)