Using Manga2Ebook and Rasterfarian for manga on the sony reader. A howto.
5 September 2007 
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Here’s the promised, but majorly delayed tutorial on how to use Manga2Ebook and rasterfarian to create PDF-files.
The first step is to Manga2Ebook to convert a collection of manga-books into PDF-form. The program itself has a usage-explanation, and the default values are optimzed for creating manga-pdfs for the Sony Reader already, so I’m not going to explain that.
Just select the directory where you have your manga, type in a title and chose start to create portrait manga.
(if you want to create comics like this:
Chose “resize based on width” and disable rotate. It’ll fit all the comic strips into a page)
When the PDF is done, start rasterfarian by rightclicking on the PDF-file in windows and chose “rasterfarian”, then follow these steps:
- Chose advanced interface
- Chose priority belownormal (so you can do other things)
- Autocrop the file: no
- Arrange as: 1)whole pages per screen
- Level of post-processing: full
- Level of boldness: 6
- Level of edge enhancement: 7
- Preview page: Skip (takes too long and result on a monitor is poor anyways)
- Number of threads: your CPU-core times 2. I have a QuadCore CPU, so I chose 4×2=8
- Enter a title/author: whatever you want
Now it will create the lrf-file you want.
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Pingback by Hightech @ AFmag.net » PDF-rasterizers for the sony reader, a review on rasterfarian, pdfread and pdflrf — September 5, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
Thanks for this! I look forward to testing it out…
Comment by AF — September 6, 2007 @ 4:09 am
If any one has a copy of rasterfarian that they could send me or knows where I could get it my email is readler@okinawan-adventure.com i would appreciate it very much!
Comment by Nick — September 6, 2007 @ 5:33 am
I just picked up a PRS-505 for the soul purpose of reading manga. I thought that I would post my thoughts here, since this is just about the only relevant information I can find about using the Sony Reader for manga.
It works well, when it works. The biggest issue is that the player has a real hard time opening large PDFs. It just freezes and requires a reset to get it going again. Luckily, there is one thing that can really help here; Acrobat Professional 8 has an option to reduce the filesize of a pdf (Document -> Reduce Filesize). This commonly cuts the filesize roughly in half which can take a pdf from Reader-Killer to Reader-Friendly. It should be common practice to run all PDFs through this option after getting done with Manga2Ebook. I’ve found, thus far, that 35 MB is about the maximum that the Reader can take; I haven’t been able to load one larger than that yet.
I have also found that some PDFs just don’t work. The exhibit the same freezing behavior as really large PDFs. I’ve had this happen with files as small as 3 MB. I don’t have any clue why that’s happening.
Other than that, though, things are going real great so far. The only other major issue is one with scanners and not the player; if the manga is scanned with two pages per image it will be to small to read. Unfortunately the only option for this is to manually divide the pages before compiling the PDF. I have yet to decide what my solution to this problem is going to be.
Thanks for the Manga2Ebook app. It certainly has helped to speed up my conversion process.
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