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Requesting a comic book editor
fdwojo:
Just as a preface, I searched the entire forum and can't find any info or requests for something like this, so...
I apologize if I thought this request to be too simple a task, but if it's possible, here is what I am looking for.
Background: I read lots of comics (using ComicRack). However, sometimes I'll be reading through one and there are all these unwanted, unneeded advertisement pages in the comic book that I'd love to get rid of.
Request: Can a program be written so that it could open a CBZ file, let me view and pick out any unwanted pages and actually delete them and then save the modified files back into the same file again.
Option 1) it might be even easier if I could see a whole slew of pages as thumbnails (perhaps 20 or 30 per screen) because I don't really need to read the comic book if all I need is just to pick out the unwanted stuff.
Option 2) allow this for CBR as well. I know that giving it full RAR (CBR) capability is expensive to add to a program, but perhaps you could just restrict it to only work if the user has WinRAR already installed. Otherwise, it would be a disabled option. This idea is something that SKWIRE did with his "Comic Book Archive Creator"
Thanks for listening. Please let me know if it's an option.
P.S. I am primarily after a solution that will actually delete unwanted pictures, not just mark them as hidden. But, this brings another option to my mind. If deleting is a problem or unwise, renaming the file so that anything that is a JPG, PNG, etc. could be renamed to have a ZZZ (or some other unused 3-letter extension). That way, it wouldn't be actually deleted, but instead would be totally hidden it wouldn't show up in viewing it with my Comic Rack viewer. This method would have the side benefit of working with every single comic viewer out there and wouldn't need to rely on maintaining an external list of what pages to view and what pages to hide.
Thanks again.
skwire:
Perhaps you can leverage my Comic Book Archive Creator for your purposes?
http://skwire.dcmembers.com/fp/?page=comic-book-archive-creator
fdwojo:
Well... correct me if I'm wrong, but your program is meant to create comic book files (CBZ/CB7/....) not edit them. If you'd like, I'll be happy to admit that I'm lazy. Yes, I could instead (manually):
A) rename comic book file to .ZIP or .RAR
B) extract all files into a folder
C) view all files with my primary single image viewer and delete as I go
D) re-compress all the files into a .ZIP or .RAR (I prefer ZIP)
E) rename the extension back to .CBZ or .CBR
The way I see it, your program would only allow me to combine steps D and E together. Not to mention that I still have to give it the same name it had from before.
I guess I'm trying to automate things as much as possible. Of course, the best option would be for my comics viewer (ComicRack) to allow me to do that, but the only thing it will do is to allow me to mark the desired images as hidden (it's called deleted in the program, but they are actually hidden.) And then if I send these files to someone else or one of my other devices, such as my tablet, the unwanted pictures are still there and reappear, thereby defeating the intent. Of course my last option above (the renaming of the extension) would leave the file there, but at least it would not be viewable at all.
Lastly, I'm sorry if I have misunderstood the capabilities of CBAR, because I have downloaded it and used it for making them, but as I said before, it seems like it can only create CB archives, and all the editing is still left to me like I mentioned above.
Thank you, though.
skwire:
The other solution I can think of would be a zip/compression program that had thumbnail viewing of images. You could then view the images in the cb? file directly within the compression app and delete as you see fit. Anybody familiar with a zip/compression app that has internal image thumbnail viewing?
4wd:
Never mind, it can't delete within the archive, (nice little explorer though).
PowerArchiver can do it although it isn't free, same with DOpus.
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