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TheGamersQuarter PDFs converted for Playstation Portable

 
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:15 am    Post subject: TheGamersQuarter PDFs converted for Playstation Portable Reply with quote

Hi,

I converted the GamersQuarter PDF files for viewing on the Playstation Portable. Just unzip into the PSP/PHOTO/ folder on your memory stick and you should be able to view them with the build in photo viewer. The issues 1 to 7 are available at (still uploading, everything should be there in half an hour):

http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/tmp/TheGamersQuarter-PSP/

Known bugs: On some pages Anti-Aliasing is disabled, not sure what is causing this, might be a bug in my Ghostscript version.

If anybody wants to convert the pdfs themself, they can do that via (assuming a Linux installation with Ghostscript and Imagemagick) something like this, exact usage might varry from PDF to PDF a bit:

Code:
# Convert each page to PNG
gs -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -r87.3 -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dNOPAUSE   -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4  -sDEVICE=png16m     -sOutputFile=/tmp/GamersQuarter7/page%03d.png -f TheGamersQuarter7.pdf -dAlignToPixels=1

# Break up double pages into two
for i in *.png; do convert -crop 480x742+0+0 "$i" "480/${i%%.png}_0.jpg"; echo $i; done
for i in *.png; do convert -crop 480x742+480+0 "$i" "480/${i%%.png}_1.jpg"; echo $i; done

# Fix timestamps so that page are sorted is correctly on PSP
find -type f -print0 | sort -f -n -z | while read -d $'\0' -r filename; do  t=$(printf "2006%02d%02d%02d%02d" $[($i/60/24+1)/28+1] $[($i/60/24+1)%28] $[$i/60%24] $[$i%60]); touch -t $t "$filename"; i=$[$i+1]; echo $t $filename; done
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, this is an amazing thing you did. I really appreciate this and know that others will as well. If we were to do a front page news post about this would you rather if we re-hosted the image, or would you like to keep it on your webspace?

Thanks for putting in the time and effort to do this!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome! I'm going to load this on my PSP tonight and take photos.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shapermc wrote:
If we were to do a front page news post about this would you rather if we re-hosted the image, or would you like to keep it on your webspace?

For the moment I would prefer to leave it on my webspace, havn't actually read through all the issues myself, so there might still be some things left that might need correction.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did a little update, by converting the PDFs to Postscript with Acrobat before converting them to JPEGs with Ghostscript I was able to solve the anti-aliasing issue with the fonts, so those pages that suffer from it should be better readable now. Also increased the compression a bit, so the total download went from 160MB down to 100MB.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I converted the latest issue into JPG suitable for reading on PSP, its available at TheGamersQuarter8-PSP.zip.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome, I'm checking this out tonight!
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