Graphic Novel

[ced]

I've got some old graphic novels (Asterix & Obelix) and the pages are starting to detach from their support... How can I can transcode them electronically and be able to read it from my zaurus?

Obviously I need to scan it and... after?
What resolution do I need to scan it to get a good quality to be read on the zaurus (320x240) ? a page is a A4 paper size.
Maybe transform to PDF?

[lardman]

Take a look at the standard .cbr/.cbz fare.

These are electronic comic books which are rar files containing jpegs.

I'm not sure that rar is supported on the Z (and there's presumably no specific comic book reader - some are pretty good in the way they pan around the page automatically with you just pressing one key), but you could take a look at the resolution, etc. I'll have a look at what I've got at home and post tomorrow to tell you what kind of resolutions they are in.


Si

[pelrun]

.cbz is actually zip, not rar... hence cb*z*

As for the resolution, 320x240 is probably not high enough. Scan them in to look good on your PC monitor. You can always use Irfanview or something else to do a batch rescale later if you want something smaller (either lower res or higher compression) to fit on your Z.

My 860 is fast enough to rescale on the fly, so I tend to leave scans at full res. That allows me to zoom in if something's too small to see when I'm scaling to the screen. The CCS manga on my Z right now is about 600x800.

But the choice of image viewers for the Z sucks when it comes to comics.  I'm subsisting on the standard image viewer, but a cbz viewer for my Z is first on my list of Z programming tasks