comicgen 0.3

Install

Install it by easy way through pip:

pip install comicgen

or use easy_install:

easy_install comicgen

If you have not use virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper yet, it is very nice tool to make a depended environment:

mkvirtualenv comicgen
pip install comicgen

See details on virtualenvwrapper document.

Usage

First of all, you have to make the dir containig image of pages:

./comic_title
    |- 0001.jpg
    |- 0002.jpg
    |- 0003.jpg
    |- 0004.jpg
    |- 0005.jpg
    |- 0006.jpg
    +- 0007.jpg

You also have to download the kindlegen package from the official site and unpacked it:

$ wget http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/KindleGen_Mac_i386_v2_9.zip
$ unzip KindleGen_Mac_i386_v2_9.zip

If you finished to make it and install the depended libraries, run its command:

$ mkdir output
$ comicgen --title 'Hello Comic' --author 'Takahiro Fujiwara' --publisher 'ComicGen' --output ./output -k ./kindlegen ./comic_title

A mobi file will appear in the output dir that you set as the option of comicgen:

$ ls ./output
Hello Comic.mobi

Advanced Usage

When you buy so many comics and scan them, comicgen-volumes command is nice.

Separate volumes by each directories:

./comic_title
    +- 0001
    |   |- 0001.jpg
    |   |- 0002.jpg
    |   +- 0003.jpg
    +- 0002
        |- 0001.jpg
        +- 0002.jpg

And run it:

$ comicgen-volumes --title-template 'Hello Comic %(volume)i' --author 'Takahiro Fujiwara' --publisher 'ComicGen' --output ./output -k ./kindlegen ./comic_title

License

ComicGen is released under the MIT License. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license