A command-line tool to make ebook of comics.
Project description
ComicGen is the commandline tool to make ebooks formatted by mobi file format from jpeg images. This is convinience when you want make own ebook comics scaned by yourself.
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
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