Comments on: How to Use iPhone as a Comic Book Reader

By: Oscar Gonzalez

Oscar Gonzalez — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:26:41 +0000

Hi, what i tried is:

I changed the CBR file to RAR, then i unzipped all the jpeg files to lets says Batman 404.
Using PrimoPdf i printed all the pictures into 1 Batman 404 PDF.
Then using Fileapp (http://www.digidna.net/products/fileapp) uploaded the pdf to the iphone. The comic is easier to read.

By: Sherm

Sherm — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:12:03 +0000

@Touchtip: Thanks for the tip!

By: Touchtip

Touchtip — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:04:05 +0000

Today iVerse announced a new comic book reader that will soon be available in the App Store. Read more about it here:
http://www.macworld.com/articl.....c=rss_main

By: douglas

douglas — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:40:25 +0000

Okay, I’ve found some nifty screenshot utilities that will help me take a series of photos at exactly 480×320 resolution. GrabberRaster for the Mac does so with style and is free. So I’m going to open CBRs in a reader, scale to the size I think best, and shoot 480×320s frame by frame and see what I get.
I have CBRs for almost all of my IRL comic collection. Better solution: I can imagine a computer program in which you would define the frame boarder for a comic (white, black lines of certain thickness, etc.) and then the program would chop up all the frames and output them in sequential file order for you… THAT would be impressive… though of course modern comics love to play around with order and placement and etc.

By: Sherm

Sherm — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:00:43 +0000

Hi Douglas…yeah, I just cut up the panels by eyeballing the size and trusting it to be OK. The native iPhone photo import only seems to ruin the resolution of th really large images. The process I first used of using a screen capture program to cut up the comic page into panels DOES provide a great reading experience…it’s just a pain to do it.

There are many screen capture programs that will do what SnagIt does…I just think SnagIt is the best. Check out this article for more Windows screen-capture tools: http://labnol.blogspot.com/200.....e-for.html

Mac users can capture any region of their screen for free by pressing Command-Shift-4 (in sequence…no dashes.)

Thanks for stopping by…let me know how it works out ^_^

–sherm

By: douglas

douglas — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:39:48 +0000

Did you take all your screenshots at the iPhone’s native resolution, or just cut up the panels and trust them to appear “okay”?

The panel-by-panel screenshot seems to be the approach that would produce that best reading experience… I don’t have SnagIt, but maybe there’s a free screenshot tool that lets you define the X and Y of a the image and then you could zip through an unpacked CBR pretty quickly, I reckon…

By: John Hickey

John Hickey — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:04:18 +0000

http://www.comicsearch.co.uk/f.....board=10.0

This is a link to Comic Tree, which is a comic reader that has a web server built in to it. Seems to work pretty well with my iTouch. Just turn on the web server under “Options”, point your iTouch/iPhone to your computer’s ip address, and off you go! At my house, I just browse to 192.168.2.200:5050 and it works fine. I use dyndns to give my home a dns name, so in theory I could read comics anywhere there is an internet connection.