Comic Book Transformer KDE Service Menu

28 August, 2010 Posted by ramso

This KDE4 Service Menu is designed to make more easy the generation of Comic Book files in CBR, CBZ or PDF Formats. Provide options to scale to different resolutions and transform to gray for use in ebooks.

Features

Convert Images directories to CBR, CBZ o PDF files
Convert CBR o CBZ files in PDF
Transform to gray scale
Scale to 1024×768 or 800×600

Use

In Dolphin select a directory or CBR, CBZ file, in actions menu select Comic Book Transformer. In the new menu select the output format for your file.

In you need transformation options, select the item ending in [...options] for your output type.

Select the type of the output transformation an press Accept. A dialog inform you with the result of the transformation.

Dependencies

Install this packages

Zip
Unzip
Rar
Unrar
ImageMagick

Install

Untar the file

Home installation:

- place the desktop files in $(kde4-config –localprefix)/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
- place the cb_servicemenu script file in a directory in your path (I have ~/bin)

System-wide installation:

- place the desktop files in $(kde4-config –prefix)/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/
- place the cb_servicemenu script file in /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/