Rokudaime Sennin â„¢ on
May 18th, 2011 at 6:11:24 PM UTC
@chomio: LOL, it wasn't the firefox, it was the overloaded Mangastream servers. Pages were barely loading.
Rokudaime Sennin â„¢ on
May 18th, 2011 at 6:12:55 PM UTC
@skillder: oh by the way, need you to add all your links first, then I need to add a couple of links, to upload to the reader
skillder on
May 18th, 2011 at 6:17:57 PM UTC
@rokudaime sennin
ok then
Rokudaime Sennin â„¢ on
May 18th, 2011 at 7:23:12 PM UTC
@MM: I know precisely what you're doing, just so you know I have gotten every1's permission first to add a link in order to update the reader. But anyways, don't think I'm not keepin track of you as well.
@Galactic Ninja: ok, before you go on your rants again, lol, I'm gonna try to preempt you. As you're aware MangaStream has split up the pngs so it's impossible to get the 250 bit ones without editing/optimizing later. I just save them in whatever format is simplest. If your aware of a method for saving them into 250 bit instead of 16 million colors, let me know. Are you familiar with OptiPng? I can provide a separate download for you, a lower sized optimized png version, let me know what settings you prefer and the steps to do it. Naruto's the only one you want the lower sized png's for correct?
mistermobile on
May 18th, 2011 at 7:43:32 PM UTC
@Rokudaime Sennin â„¢
Just give it to them, his megaupload link is working fine with the reader.
Don't say stupid reasons. ^_^
Rokudaime Sennin â„¢ on
May 18th, 2011 at 8:13:18 PM UTC
btw, you deleted his secondary megaupload link as well, lol, mine was only hotfile. And I only trust my files when uploading to the reader myself, don't like uploading jpegs, but pngs. But I guess I should've deleted it this time, however for fairy tail 234, chomio has allowed me one link, cause I taught them all how to get the pngs off mangastream properly and faster
vidzey on
May 18th, 2011 at 9:28:35 PM UTC
thanks, binktopia and mangastream!
galacticninja on
May 19th, 2011 at 11:16:44 AM UTC
@Rokudaime Sennin Thanks for saving me the effort of posting my 'lower filesized PNGs request' again. I was about to post it again, luckily I read your "pre-emption". =) To those that want to know more about that post of mine, read it here: http://www.mangashare.com/dl/Naruto_538/43701
I understand that Mangastream indeed splits up the manga images in their webpage, making it harder to construct the image.
What I do to collect the splitted images, is use a full webpage screenshot taking browser extension like Firefox' ScreenGrab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screengrab/ on each page. If you have a better way of saving the whole manga images, then do that (and share that method with us as well).
I then just crop it up with Irfanview ( http://www.irfanview.com/ ) and save it as 256-color PNG (except for the images that are originally JPG files, which should be saved as JPG too, unless they are splitted too and you would like a faster way to edit) at maximum compression settings (9 in Irfanview). You could also use another image editing program, just save the PNGs at maximum compression settings. I just find Irfanview easy and straightforward to use.
If you have a bunch of already cropped 24-bit (16-million colors) images, then you can use Irfanview's batch edit function to save them all at 256-color at maximum compression PNG settings. This will usually reduce the total filesize of the manga chapter scanlation to 2 - 3MiB. At this point, this is acceptable to me.
I am very familiar with OptiPNG, as it is my PNG optimizer of choice (along with AdvanceCOMP). You could further optimize the 256-color PNGs by around 5 - 20% less of the filesize (depending on the image) if you optimize with OptiPNG (I use maximum compression settings), and slightly optimize it more with AdvanceCOMP.
P.S. You still included the 'Thumbs.db' file, a thumbnail cache file, usually hidden from view by default, in your archives. This file does not serve any purpose in a non-Windows XP OS (and will automatically be generated in Windows XP anyway) and just increases the total file size of the archive. To avoid doing this, select only the images, and not the whole folder when compressing the files to a ZIP/RAR/7z file.
Also, thanks for the PNG images file upload! Thanks also, for not using a link redirector like adf.ly (yes, I'm looking at you @mistermobile). Just a request: Please upload to Mediafire too.
tamala on
May 19th, 2011 at 8:52:09 PM UTC Thank you so much Mangastream & Binktopia Team...
Mabuhay...
Freesia on
May 20th, 2011 at 12:13:18 AM UTC
Thank You Mangashare and MangaStream and Binktopia, Arigatou Masashi Kishimoto Sensei!
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Thank You MangaStream and Binktopia
Arigatou Masashi Kishimoto Sensei!
Enjoy!!