Scanlation thread

I'm currently working on a doujin that I imported and scanned. I've never done any scanlation before, but I hope it turns out well!

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Didn't a thread just died like 5 hours ago? With like 25 replies?
Anyway, I should really be translating this right now, but here I am on /a/...

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Just read all the raw chapter of pic related and it quickly become one of my new favorite manga.

Why is the translation so slow?

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>>154731633
Also Nanachi is a miracle of the universe.

Help this manga is turning me into a furfag

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Anyone interested in translating the final volume of Big Order? I can clean/typeset.
Pissed that it got dropped one volume to completion and just want to see it end desu

EBJ fixed yet?

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I always told myself I'd translate tons of manga when I started learning Japanese. Now that I know it well enough, I'd much rather just read more instead.

>>154732833
Kechi.

>>154729971
Finishing redraws on Mitsukubi Condor, and QCing a chapter of He~nshin!!

>>154732833
Anything that could incentivize you into translating something?

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Finally have time off and the last thing i want to do is scanlate.

>>154732199

Shit raws?

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>>154731633
Vol1 is translated(months ago), hq raws are ready.
Waiting for RD and TS. If you are good at redrawing, tell habanero.
Also, the work on author's short story is underway.

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>mfw slowly dropped everything I was working on in the last 3 months
Finally free. Scanlating is such a time sink.

>>154735541
Great job anon, thanks for the hard work.

>>154735741
The meaning of life is simply whatever keeps you from killing yourself. Sometimes that's freedom and sometimes it's a time sink.

>>154735741

>Only three months

Casual.

>>154732833
This. Translation is so mendokusai.

>>154732199
I was the one who translated and typeset 8 and 9. I'm sorry, I couldn't take it anymore.

>>154734902
Raws are good, tank scans.

Can ayone scanlate this oneshot http://imgur.com/a/4YMk4

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Looking for a moderately experienced cleaner willing to do anywhere between 1 and 9 volumes of this stuff. Translations are ready, typesetters are lined up, someone is willing to redraw, it just needs someone willing to clean.
Pic related is the kind of raws you should expect, this one is 25% size to fit the size limits though.
#teammoe on Rizon if anyone is interested.

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Anyone working on this?
https://myanimelist.net/manga/97147/Jinrou_e_no_Tensei_Maou_no_Fukukan__Shidou-hen/

>>154739810
I'll work on it a bit more but fuck this chapter is so boring.

>>154738177

Oh it's that racing manga.

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This. First try cleaning + typesetting.

Almost halfway through the korean-anon's translations for the chapter.

Would anyone mind if I dumped here or should I make a new thread?

>>154742042
Aw, no plot development or is it just the mystery?
I'll still work on it though, I like Mujina.

>>154744551
Are you translating from a translation? Don't waste your time on that.

>>154744551
>itadakimatsu
BURN THIS

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>>154744551
2nd page

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>>154744587
Yeah I am. I don't read any korean/japanese so I can't really do anything else.

>>154744650
my sides, fuck me lol.
tfw cant even copy paste

>>154744551
>that typesetting
>umaru watermark
>korean translation
Hmm

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>>154744881
actually nevermind i misread the comment.
disregard anything i say i have terminal astigmatism spreading through my body

>>154744939
Do those gooks really watermark every single page?

>>154744551
Dump somewhere else. And usually translations of translations have mistranslations in them, so just wait for Japanese raws

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>>154744988
apparently.
because i'm a fucc, i'm not going to bother covering/removing.
I just pulled these from the korean-anon's post

>>154744881
>I don't read any korean/japanese so I can't really do anything else.
Then don't do anything else, if you can't find a Japanese translator. You are part of the cancer ruining scanlations.

>>154745012
alright i'll stop dumping here.

>>154745157
It's pretty easy to not read shit tier scans desu.
I don't think by myself I can do anything to influence the pretty well established scan community.

>>154735541
>Vol1 is translated
Where's the script?

>>154745284
Shit tier scans get uploaded to manga reader sites all the time and then become canonical as far as most of the readers are concerned because they have no way of judging the accuracy.

>>154745284
Here's what you can do
Calibrate your monitor
Download a pirated copy of Photoshop
Download a font manager of your choice Nexus Font
Look up some font guides
Download some fonts
Set up your font manager with your new fonts
Look up a typesetting guide
Get much better results

>>154744881
>tfw cant even copy paste

Ewh. At least have the decency to read your translator's lines and type them out so you can weed out typos and other mistakes.

>>154745562
so you're telling me we could make great plot changes? and nobody would call us on it?

I'm a good two weeks behind schedule and I really should be typesetting but then again hanging out on /a/ takes less effort.
>>154745955
Not for obscure manga, no. But then you'd just be a dick.

Lately I've taken to blacklisting 4chan for 24 hour blocs so I can concentrate on translating. /a/ is too distracting.

>>154745575
>spoiler

Thanks, been typesetting for a while and I've never heard of it.

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>>154744551
>itadakimasu!

>>154746188
That's been my problem too, though only for the last decade. You will never leave.

>>154744551
>Itadakimasu
You forgot the translator's note. Some people might not know what that means, so you need a little explanation for them.

TN: "Itadakimasu" is an essential phrase in your Japanese vocabulary. It's often translated as "I humbly receive," but in a mealtime setting, it's compared to "Let's eat," "Bon appétit," or "Thanks for the food." Some even liken it to the religious tradition of saying grace before eating.
But the uses for itadakimasu extend far beyond food. And though its roots are ancient, saying the phrase before meals is a fairly recent Japanese custom. Get ready to dig in. You are going to learn the history, uses, meaning, and philosophy behind itadakimasu.
In its simplest form, Itadakimasu 頂きます is used before receiving something. That's why the most common itadakimasu translation is:
頂きます（いただきます）
to receive; to get; to accept; to take (humble).
This explains why you say it before you eat. You're "receiving" food, after all.

>>154733606
Take your time, I can wait as long as it takes for BR.

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>>154733606
Unrelated but wanted to let you know Tsutomu Takahashi joined Instagram just this year and he seems to be fairly active, dude goes by tsutomu69takahashi.

Any moonrune-readers going to be around about 5-6 hours from now? I made a questionable translation of a dead scanlation project from not-Japanese, and I'm hoping to get it corrected.

I'm going to storytime it with the raws; there are 75 pages remaining. Last release was 1996 days ago.

>>154749970
Post the sentence/page you're in doubt with and someone might help.

Also try out the /int/'s DJT and japanese threads, people there help often with questions and such.

Has anyone posted the fixed ebj script yet?

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>>154751435
It's gonna take more than a script to fix it this time. They changed their viewer to one that's similar to the BookWalker web one. There's a single viewer canvas and the pages+everything else is rendered on it, dropping is ineffective now. Download method changed too, it's not scrambled images anymore. That's a can of worms I'm not getting into, I'll let China deal with it.
Rakuten also fixed their coupons like a week after I talked about them here, it's almost as if they watch these threads.

>>154752054
>I'll let China deal with it.
Then how am I supposed to rip raws for scanlating?

>>154752054
It had happened to jcafe a few years ago. We should find to the another heaven to talk about a script for ripping.

>>154751407
>Post the sentence/page you're in doubt with and someone might help
>translation from not-Japanese
That would be all of them. Except the first few pages which were checked by a friend of mine, who unfortunately isn't interested in fixing the rest.

Not working on anything at the moment tb͏h

>>154752054
It takes almost no work to get the old script working with the new viewer. The only problem is that pages are merged now so you have to split them.

>>154752867
Which isn't really a problem since you can work around it with actions in Photoshop. I just wish I had a script that works.

>>154752924
http://pastebin.com/g7riDxtb
I'm working on either improving this or just writing a quick Photoshop script, but for now this works.

Sorry to the people I said I'd email yesterday, I ended up being busy all day.

>>154753263
Thank you, now to hope it doesn't break before the 27th when all the shit I'm buying comes out.

>>154752054

Rakuten is doing a promotion that's different, so the jury's out on whether it'll revert back to the old coupon format or not.

>>154753263
Much appreciated, but why didn't you chance a version from 1?

>>154753589
*change

>>154753589
Because I'm still making changes to it, it's not done but it works well enough if people need to use it asap.
Also I forgot you could even do that, I usually just make changes myself and don't post them.

>>154753685
No offense, just asking anon.

>>154749970
You want someone to proofread 75 pages? That's not a small task.

>>154753263
Oh now I see why you (or some other anon) was saying the @Grant thing worked. In the latest version of FF and GM, which I apparently didn't have at the time, it makes the GM script run in a different context where the .toDataURL and .toBlob functions actually do exist making my workaround entirely useless.
Well, canvas dropping will work until they make it so the function drawing the images scales them after descrambling and before drawing.
Shipping the canvas data to a server running PHP with GD enabled would probably be a better idea for cropping, JS isn't very amazing at that.

Do you guys get paid for scanlating ? If there is, how much ?

>>154753902
Not proofread, he wants a TL check.
It's not really much to ask, it just depends on how much free time one has.

>>154753263

Can you implement the canvas mouseclick simulation from the other script so I don't have to click through an entire magazine manually?

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>>154753263
It's kind of funny how much empty space their canvas has now.

>>154754178
I don't have the other script, but I don't know if there's any way to tell that the canvas is done loading so automating clicks would be fairly likely to miss pages with how they have it set up now.

>>154754321
Yeah, the entire screen is just one big canvas now. It's fairly trivial to get rid of all the blank space with a Photoshop action. I'm trying to write a script that would basically run that action on an entire folder and then split it into individual pages, but I haven't worked with Photoshop scripting before so it's taking a while.

>>154754423
Photoshop's scripting code is based on JavaScript isn't it? If so you at least already have experience, I've always wanted to write some scripts for Photoshop but since I never learned anything other than C it never happened.

>>154754423

It was an internal function rather than JQuery.

http://pastebin.com/u9hwzqvY

>>154754423
Slices, nigger. You don't need to script this shit.

>>154754178
Fuck that shit.

>>154754423
>but I don't know if there's any way to tell that the canvas is done loading so automating clicks would be fairly likely to miss pages
It does. I'm ok with using the arrow keys to move between pages.

>>154754423
How does we know an actual height and wide size of single page?

>>154754525
>>154754423

I used that script, never had any problems with skipped pages. EBJHooker is more likely to give me skipped blank pages in my experience.

>>154754487
It is, I just have to look up the names of everything I want to use.

>>154754525
I'll see what I can do, I've got other stuff I need to be working on though so it might not be tonight.

>>154754589
I wanted to try and get the page numbers correct for the split images, I doubt you can do that without scripting.

>>154754633
Crop away everything transparent and divide the width by two.

>>154754423
Just use imagemagik or PIL desu.

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>>154753902
It doesn't have to be just one anon proofing the whole thing. People can correct what jumps out at them as I storytime it. I'll start about an hour from now.

I've been trying to get the series translated for years, and finally decided to do a retranslation to see if getting it tl-checked would be easier. If someone decides that translating it from scratch is a better use of his time, I won't complain.

I just revisited Comic Earth Star after a long time and suddenly they've changed their viewer from Actibook to whatever the fuck PUBLUS is so OMD doesn't work anymore.

How do I download this thing now?

>>154755428

https://github.com/sprytron/comic-earthstar-dl

>>154754423
I used this ones.
http://pastebin.com/hkpzc1PG

>>154755423

You would probably want to contact elemhunter, he said he scanned Nejishiki as well but it looks like their TL bailed since that was a while ago.

>>154755428
Speaking of OMD, did anyone ever try to make it be able to rip from EBJ again or was the code for the version that could never made public?

>>154754423
>>154755521
>expires in 7 minutes
Nigger, calm the fuck down. That one is not hidden or anything like that. The dl link is in the source code.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/chocolatkey/ad0c04b0768f5fcdd3ea3c6cb089b8b2/raw

>>154755423

If you're going to work on munou no hito, just contact habanero. I'm more than willing to check over a script for Tsuge.

>>154755546
Last I could contact him (OMD anon) is last summer.

>>154755522

No, he's still around. Nejishiki is just on the back burner because I haven't had time to clean it with all the various projects going on.

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>>154755461
Damn it man, I just wanted to download some comic.

Thanks anyway.

>>154755741

I hate PUBLUS readers too anon.

>>154755655
You'll notice it also doesn't work, there's a good chance the reason the viewer's been changed so many times lately is because people are making their scripts public.

>>154755663
If that's what you would prefer, then ok. I suppose Elemhunter will know who you are.

>>154730974
How do you import a manga anyways. I am a newfag and have to ask.

>>154756569
check the buyfag thread

>>154756569
If they aren't h just buy them from Amazon JP.

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>"until next week"
>TL can't even tell the difference between まで and までに
>Whoever does QC can't even tell that's fucktarded English

Why are so many groups, even bigger ones, so bad?

>>154758616

garbage in, garbage out.

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>>154758616
Oh please, before you even try to lay into their translators, get a load of their typesetters.

>>154758832
They're not all bad. I worked with one of their typesetters that I found on /a/ and he went above and beyond, even redrawing stuff where I told him to just put a note beside.

>>154758832
Way better than MS retarded shit.

>>154758879
Most of them are awful though. It's quite clear that these guys don't even bother reading what they type. Copy pesto all sorts of garbage in all their series that I try to read.

And their QCs and proofreaders are just there to make the credits page look fancy.

>>154759225
It's not a typesetter's job to proofread shit, that's the job of the proofreader/QC or the translator himself if there's no PR/QC.

>>154758616
If you're good, you're better off going for professional gigs that actually pays you.

>>154759260
No, but they should at least read the thing to make sure they're putting shit where it belongs.

>>154759315
I just don't have it in me to haggle with people and stuff. Can't figure out where to find people willing to pay me and how much to ask of them. Still can't wrap my head around people actually paying money for this either. Basically, I'm not Jewish enough.
Besides, then it's gonna become a job and I hate working.

>>154759492
I'm not talking about getting paid to do official releases of manga. I'm talking getting an actual corporate job.

>I hate working
Guess what, that mindset is also why fan scanlations are mostly half-assed.

>>154759615
>I'm not talking about getting paid to do official releases of manga. I'm talking getting an actual corporate job.
Not that anon, but I don't understand your point.
I work 40+ hours a week, and I still do my best not to release scanlations like the stuff posted above.

>>154759757
What, and you somehow think you represent the majority or the norm? That's not how reality works.

>>154759819
I never said I represent any group.
I just don't understand what you're trying to say about the correlation between having a job and releasing shite.

BUMPERINO FOR AN AWESOME MANGA.

>>154758832
>that they fought
>against
Why.

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>>154729971
I was going to try my hand at translating/typesetting an older, raw doujin I found on sadpanda that I really love. I don't have much experience as far as this is concerned, but is it alright to use the already uploaded raw scans as a base?

How would I go about giving credit to the original uploader in that case, in the comments or in the actual doujin credits page?

>>154760956
>is it alright to use the already uploaded raw scans as a base?

I think that's what pretty much everyone does, aside from a small amount of groups that have their own provider/scans.

You should probably put a link to the RAW and that's it, at least that's what I do, since I don't make a credits page.

>>154760956
Who cares?

>>154758616
It's Jaimini's box, if it's not Black Clover they don't care
They just released We can't study using paper scan when the much better digital version have been out for free for days
Last week Hungry Marie chapter was missing 2 pages and their Origin's chapters are always missing pages almost on weekly basis same shit happened when they did Red Sprite

a lot of their Birdmen's translations are flat out wrong, like fucking google would give you a more accurate translation

and don't get me started about their autistic BC translator gomensai and their subhuman cancer typesetter gia

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>>154762454
speaking of the devil

just why?

>>154762454
>google
Speaking of which, their japanese to english translations have improved lately. A few weeks ago, I transcribed several pages of a manga and 90% of the translation was actually intelligible and accurate. It sure surprised me, it even got some obscure expressions right.

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>>154762454
Don't bully Jaimini.

>>154762454
>and don't get me started about their autistic BC translator gomensai and their subhuman cancer typesetter gia
Explain further.

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Tried to typeset Maid in Japan by myself with my translation and after 3 pages I'm kind of sick of spending so much time on it already. But it was worth it just to see how much better PS is compared to GIMP.

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>>154763496
First attempt at redrawing an SFX. Notice how it's the same font as his shriek in the previous page.

>>154763496
>after 3 pages I'm kind of sick of spending so much time on it already
And I thought I was weak after giving up most projects after doing 150~ chapter mostly solo.

>>154763520
I don't think it's even worth redrawing sfx, also those are linda sloppy redraws.

>>154763496
>and after 3 pages I'm kind of sick of spending so much time on it already.

Goddamnit anon, I've been waiting to see this manga make a comeback for years.
Don't you fucking quit on me.

>>154763496
>>154764056
Yeah, listen to this guy!
You wouldn't want all his effort spent waiting to go to waste.

Is translating a VN worth it? Doesn't seem to generate a whole lot of e-peen compared to standard manga translation despite the far greater effort involved, what's the deal?

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>>154762481
Here's another empty bubble, do they even check their scan?

>>154763242
their BC translator is autistic fag that refuses to use the main character actual name spelling
he threaten to stop translating and quit the group is they used the canon spelling

their typesetter is a cancer, not just as a typesetter which he sucks at, but he's 30+ years old ESLfag that makes countless shitposts per day trying to shill Black Clover in the most retarded way, picking fights with fandoms
>this week BC chapter is the greatest chapter so far, way better than this irrelevant (insert name here) fans should read BC instead hahaha

he isn't just baiting he spends hours and days doing this shit and poorly writes walls of text in broken Engrish about how great Black Clover is, his love for it is fucking unhealthy

>>154753263
Could you (or someone else) repost this script, please?

>>154764613
>he's 30+ years old ESLfag that makes countless shitposts per day trying to shill Black Clover in the most retarded way, picking fights with fandoms
Do you have an example of this?

>>154764115
Damn straight, this guy gets it.

>>154764685
Go to Mangahelpers's Shonen Jump's thread and click on G_I_A's posts history

his post shitting on Hinomaru, Saiki, Yuuna, Academia etc..they should be there if mods didn't delete them already

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Was recently assigned to do this. I already finished the first chapter, and my colleagues are working on the other ones. I need motivation to start.

>>154764056
It's actually one of my old favorites. For an ecchi comedy, it is a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of what it truly means to be a (crossdressing) man. I wanted to translate it for quite some time. I'll just need to either backpedal on SFX or spend more time learning to do them properly.

>>154764115
>>154764876
>samefagging
Come on now.

>>154764974
adderall

>>154765044
That was honestly me and some other anon, also godspeed, man.
Are you still redoing the ones that WOWScans did years ago?

Is it worth uploading things to batoto? Is there actually decent traffic there?

>>154765177
No, wowscans did a decent job on 4-6. The first three chapters (by Niveus Noctis) though, I'll definitely need to redo those because it's clearly a machine translation (or it's bad enough to feel like one).

>>154764974
Hi Mewwy

>>154765313
Well, it's good for distribution, at least. Anything you upload on Batoto is guaranteed to make its way to the multitudes of aggregate sites out there.

>>154765766
Does batoto have the option to download non-resampled versions of uploads?

>>154764974
Won't gommenasai's works be eventually edited by Fakku? Why bother?

>>154765938
Because letting shit translations be done by a shit website is an injustice. At least give people the option to have better quality. Also, if I do this for my translator he will do stuff I want, like Kakkuu stuff.

I'm sorry for asking here, but my gammas and hues are fucked, and this affects image editing to a certain degree.
I use f.lux so I can look at my screen during the night. However, I once played around with the settings of my GPU (S3, integrated), and it said it had "reset" the gamma, hue and so on. That wasn't a problem yet; I just turned f.lux back on and continued whatever I was doing.

The next morning, I noticed that certain images looked warmer. Those on wikipedia, for example. Some images on /a/, too.

I'm on XP, so there isn't a colour calibration option in the OS itself. S3 manager has completely fucked itself, too.

What am I supposed to do?

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My first attempt, is there something I could be to make it better? I not familiar with all the fonts. I used segoe after scrolling and clicking randomly through the list of fonts.

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Also, what should I use here?

>>154766249
Comic Sans

>>154766183
>elf's

>>154766368
It's fixed.

>>154765872
Batoto resamples?

>>154766497
It doesn't. Which is why we have all those uncompressed rgb png from all kind of retards.

>>154766572
Space is cheap.

>>154766497
>>154766572
Oh, I guess you're right. It doesn't. But it does scale things to fit your screen. Which you can hit Z to undo.

>>154766688
You can sell your head for a cup of coffee then.

>>154758616
I noticed that they are shilling themselves lately in WSJ threads.

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Is it?

>>154758616
Jaimini and Niggerstream are trash. That's why i always wait for Viz for those.

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>>154767964
I tried.

Also, rate my first typesetting.

>>154769461
Font is too big. You don't need to make it fit the bubble. Just make it consistent through out the whole chapter. Only change font size if the raws change font size.

Also, pick a better font.

>>154767964
>>154769461
>GIMP
Kill yourselves.

>>154769512
The RAW emphasizes the "a cat is fine, too", too, though.

Also, I thought Wild Words was considered to be fine, too.

>>154769542
Muh freedumbs, though.

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>>154769569

>>154769569
I'm more than sure the raws does not massively over size the text. And no, Wild Words is too over used. If you must use Wild Words, use Wild Words Lower.

>>154769461
Avoid putting single letters on their own row.

>>154769641
>is too over used
Okay Mr. Hipster.

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Does anyone have a introduction to coloring? I'm a NEET and ready to sink several hours to colorize my favourite japanese jpgs.

>>154770558
find a job

>>154770630
but then those doujins won't be colorized.

>>154770558
This >>154770630
Fan colored manga looks like shit.

>>154770643
because they won't spend that much hours in it I'm willing to spend.

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>>154770666
AI has got you covered.
https://paintschainer.preferred.tech/
Learn something else. Like lucid dreaming.

>>154770826
>lucid dreaming
I can already do that (although for just around 20 seconds)

>>154770558
Your mom is crying.

Wouldn't it be better to just write a tool for the desktop EBJ viewer now? Or are some manga online-only?

>>154771282
Your mom is crying in the heaven.

>>154769569
Wild words is fine, unless you have autism and hate anything that's popular, like >>154769641

>>154771742
>anything that I don't like is autism
Nice down syndrome you got there.
Wild Words is literally comic sans 2.0.

>>154771800
Listen, breathing O2 is popular and very overused, why don't you stop doing it? Use CO2 instead.

>>154771502
Never been a tool for the desktop EBJ viewer, only for the browser viewer even though it's OMD.

>>154771835
Nice false dichotomy.

>>154771800
>Wild Words is literally comic sans 2.0.
How so? So far you've only said it's over used.
Is Helvetica also comic sans 2.0?

>>154771742
he got shown as totally clueless right here >>154769633
best to just ignore everything he's said

>>154771901
https://www.google.com/search?&q=co2+tanks+in+my+area

>>154771838
Yes, but the web viewer uses that emscripten shit which is hard to reverse (no tools) and the logic changes constantly

>>154770875
That's only the beginning, you know.

>>154737812
If a translator ever come up a TL for >>154737812
, post it in Scanlation thread. I will deal with everything else.

>>154772050
can't seem to get it stable though.
I can't really concentrate and mostly it changes to another situation or I wake up.

>>154772109
>btfo
Stop shitposting. And they aren't the same.

>>154772047
Yup, but deDRMing for files of the desktop is more harder than the web viewer ones.

>>154771952
>>154772017
>So far you've only said it's over used.
That's what makes it comic sans 2.0.
You moron. comic sans 2.0's stigma comes from the fact it was so wildly over used. And Helvetica is not a scanlation font.

>>154772323
>comic sans 2.0's stigma comes from the fact it was so wildly over used
No, it comes from being ugly and over used because it's microsoft default "cartoon" font.
WW looks fine.

>>154772323
>You moron.
You're replying to 2 different anons. Kill yourself, hipster. Living is too mainstream.

>>154772353
>>154772400
No I'm not. Just one.

And a literal two word google search of "comic sans" will tell you its history and the problem was how it was very over used.

Wild Words is also an all caps font that looks like shit.

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>>154772451

>>154772451
>No I'm not. Just one.
You're literally retarded.

>>154772484
>>154772497
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Sans
>The typeface's widespread use, often in situations for which it was not intended, has been criticized.[2]
Nice random reaction image and phone posting.

>>154772543
I hope someday I'll encounter a manga where I have a chance to use Comic sans appropriately. Just thinking about it makes me feel naughty.

>>154772451
It's at least two.
>>154772543
Nobody is using wild words in situations it's not intended to be used.
Call me when people are writing resumes and condolence letters in ww.

>>154772600
Just shut up already, god damn you're fucking stupid. To the point where you can't even read.
That line denote two things. That it was wide spread AND that it was misused. Both of these things are criticized. It's also explained even further in the cited site wikipidea uses for that line. You are literally talking out of your ass just because you don't want to admit you're wrong.

seriously just stop responding to him everyone has seen he doesn't know what he's talking about

>>154772715
I know, right. Look at how that guy can't even read sources that are given to him. Wikipidea link straight up proves him wrong, is given sited sources as well, and he just ignores it.

>>154772680
I read the article but I don't think you did.
The original criticism was about misuse of the font not simply over use.
Look http://bancomicsans.com/manifesto/, which is what bbc article is about.
Learn to read.

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>>154772850
>not even linking the actual article
>linking some virus ridden page
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-11582548
And the actual article says you're wrong as well, by the way.

It's funny how you're put so much effort into trying to defend your use of some /co/ tier garbage over used font.

>thread about scanlation devolving into hurr durr i hate Comic sans
You are a bunch of morons.

>>154752054
On the other hand,amazon kindle is a ok alternative but thought luck for those who need 1600 ver of pages
It would be better to just learn chinese and ask your way to get raws..

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>>154773056
The bbc article is just a puff piece survey on the topic, the criticism of comic sans they discuss started with bancomicsans.com.
They don't even say what you claim they say in the bbc article.
>using google botnet

>>154773223
It's actually hurr durr I hate Wild Words, and it has always been this way.

>>154773266
People who use Wild Words are always retarded. Always. To the point where it is not possible to reason with them.

>doesn't know what chromium is

>>154773360
Either way, all of you are immature as fuck to argue which font is better.

>>154773507
But, anon, my opinion is better than that other anon's. I have to let him know his tastes are shit.

>>154773403
Safe browsing regularly contacts google servers and they've already used it for NSA and lied about it.

>>154773507
>all
there's just the idiot and the idiot that keeps responding to him

>>154773544
Using all caps fonts is factually a bad thing to do as it makes things less clear and effects readability.

>>154773585
>can't type
>calls others idiots

>>154773591
Lower readability is good since it slows reader down and sets pacing from panel to panel letting the eye appreciate the art.

>>154773585
So, let's be clear. Is it someone who claimed that a certain font, "Comics sans", is overused by everyone? If it's the case, he is stupid because Wild Words is used by the majority of scanlation groups and not the opposite.

>>154773703
I honestly want to say you're being sarcastic. But with the state of these threads I can't tell.

>>154773745
You should work on your reading skills.
The whole point out the matter is that comic sans WAS vastly overused.

>>154773805
In inappropriate contexts.

>>154773834
Again, work on your reading skills.

>>154772196
Day concentration and night concentration supplement each other. Meditate.
Speaking of supplementation: Try galantamine+choline mix.

>>154773805
>>154773862
People have used for years WW and not Comics Sans. And the real complaint about Comics Sans in the world is not the overuse, it's the misuse.

>>154773943
Why are you replying to the same post multiple times?
And you're clearly a full blown retard. Because comic sans is over two decades old. It's fall from use was not just "years" ago. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>>154774042
Work on your reading skills.

>>154774151
Okay, I worked on them. They were already flawless, but I did it just for you.

うんｋ

>>154771282
Now you're totally alone?

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>>154745491
>>15473342
chapter 5 script is here

>>154779242
>>154771557
well that's awkward, hope this works

>>154779242
At least center your text and make it fit the bubbles.

>>154763520
Remove that backwards "c" between the ~ and the exclamation mark.

>>154780636
That's a tsu anon.

>>154780861
っ is not つ

>>154764974
>Gomennasai

Doing god's work

>>154780280
>>154780352
it's just supposed to be a script

>>154780636
Thanks, didn't even notice it.

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Which setting is best for greyscale and/or color pngs?

>>154782134
I use adaptive because one anon from here told me to do so.

>>154781594
Then give the files and script to someone who knows what they're doing.

>>154782134
Greyscale is fine for greyscale images. Depending on how much you care about quality vs image size, you can just leave greyscale things at 256 colors to be lossless. Don't reduce the number of colors too low if there's gradients, because it'll cause banding.

Wild Words (caps) is objectively the best font

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If Witchcraft Works anon is around, I ripped the latest good! Afternoon and can upload the chapter if you don't already have it.

>>154766183
That name looks like it has a small ェ, so Naejena.

Do you think redraw is necessary for scanlation?

>>154785721
It depends. Sometimes you can't hide text away with the translated text so you need to redraw.

Firefox keeps crashing with the updated EBJ now when ripping, so it would seem that flipping through the new canvas and downloading causes memory leaks.

>>154753263
Script is gone

>>154785721

yes.

>>154786213
The old EBJhooker script crashed my Firefox every 20-40 pages. Is the updated script worse or about the same?

>>154786813

Same pretty much, crashes after about 100 pages. The other script that was posted never crashed, so maybe it's this type of script specifically that's causing it. Script anons should compare the scripts and see where the memory leak is.

>>154786922
That's not as bad as I thought. I can live with my browser crashing once in a while as long as I have something - anything - that gets me my raws.

If a working script gets posted in this thread again, would it be possible to use a pastebin that doesn't expire within a few minutes? Stalking the thread 24/7 is impossible for some of us.

I'm writing a quick Photoshop action to split the pages (canvas size -> 50% width, anchor left or right). Should I use Save As png or Save As Web with one of these settings >>154782134? The pages will be in RGB after, so I'll have to greyscale them afterward anyway. Just not sure whether to use Adaptive, perceptual, etc.

>>154787458
Save for web. Grayscale.

>>154787491

As for color pages?

I use DeathRattle as my default dialogue font

>>154787799
>not wingdings

Get on my level, pleb

>>154787799
As long as it's not Mouth Breather

>>154779242
>>154781594
>it's just a script
>but it's typeset
I don't understand.

If you run Photostop's trim transparent pixels, you'll notice that EBJ added a dumb graphic on the side (a book spine shadow). Also, the amount of whitespace is not consistent, even among books with the same resolution. You'll probably have to write a new action for every book you rip to get rid of the whitespace on the side. If you try to use an all-in-one crop script, you'll probably crop too much on a different book.

>>154787784
I've never worked with color pages before if it's the images before editing, just go with PNG, if it's the final product then I guess you could try JPG at maximum quality.

>>154788362
It's pretty easy to deal with that. You just need to crop away all semi-transparent pixels in addition to transparent and you'll be left with only the page.

>>154789102

Oh, they're semi-transparent? That makes things easier.

EBJhooker is making FF crash because it's using toDataURL and then opening that in a new tab, which seems to cause some pretty hardcore memory allocation problems with Firefox and at some point it just runs out of control.
Convert it to use toBlob and save to disk with
https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js/

This should solve the crashes and performance issues. It's what I used for EBJripper, way easier.

>>154787799
I use Edo SZ. It just looks so cool.

>>154773745
comic sans is a bad font with bad kerning and an especially ugly letter e, which is a problem because it's the most common letter in english. its overuse is only an accessory problem; helvetica is forced meme as fuck but looks good so no one really minds that it's everywhere, while comic sans is both bad and overused so it's "you should know better".

>>154787152
The reason for the short expiring pastebins is that EBJ stalks these threads too.

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I use a font that only stupid people can't see.
Looks pretty good, doesn't it?

>>154789664
>Adult Nanoha/Fate
Looks like shit.

>>154789694
You consider first year high schoolers adults?

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Anyone know any good slightly distorted fonts? I'm having a hard time trying to find one that's comic.

>>154789791
I use Nicotine Stains set to 80% height.

>>154789346

I see toBlob in your script, but I have no idea how to merge that into EBJHooker. Thanks for the explanation though.

Can you update EBJRipper and post that? I'm using a macro to simulate mouseclicks.

>>154789346
If I knew any javascript I would have written something myself already.

>>154789791
Dreamwish, autumn whispers, CCDreamland, CCGrimlyFiendish, CCRigorMortis, CCSoothslayer, Komika Boo

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>>154789827
It looks alright, but I'm still open to suggestions.

>>154790174
Trying these now as well. Thanks anon.

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>>154790174
Good shit. Thanks a bunch mate.

>>154790702
Why is helvetica asking for advice here?

>>154790702
Looks terrible, you butchered the original font

>>154790702
Just for information, why are there 2 empty layers? And why is the page a layer rather than the background?

>>154787784
Save for web, PNG-24.

>>154791072
Fuck, meant for >>154790198

>>154791072
Pretty sure he's like full blown retarded or something. He doesn't have a back up of the original page, and he's cleaning the white space on a second layer place over the layer with the text removed.

>>154790993
They shill themselves a lot on /a/, so no surprise.

>>154790993
Just recruited into the group.

>>154791072
Picked the raw page just to find a good font for it and fuck around on. I'm not working this chapter.

>>154791069
I'm new to typesetting. What did I do wrong?

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>>154789858
http://pastebin.com/b4BXGzEp
Maybe the other anon will see it and integrate it in his fix, if he ever finishes it. I've got way more important stuff to do right now and I'm buying everything off rakuten these days, so I probably won't bother with making my own script work again.
Expires in an hour by the way.

>>154791615

I wonder if Rakuten will put their 450 coupons up again. If they just had comparable resolution to EBJ I'd prefer them.

>>154791746
Most stuff is exactly the same you know. All the Kadokawa mags are 1.6k and pixel to pixel identical to EBJ, ichijinsha stuff is ~2k for tanks and 1.6k for mags, but the rakuten ones tend to look less horrible somehow. Jump stuff is 1.2k and looks horrible everywhere so it doesn't matter much.
Older, as in pre-2015, Kado stuff is 1.2k though, I think EBJ has a few series that look better then.

>>154791851

Kodansha is 1024px.

>>154791615
Thank you a thousand times, anon. You just saved my project that has been stalled ever since the changes happened.

>>154791615

Thanks. Is this just the memory leak fix, or should I shelve the macro?

Hey, if that anon who ripped the one page of Gash from EBJ months back still has it and is on, can you post it here?

Also, can that same anon post the fixed EBJ ripper script?

>>154793823
Literally expire 2 minutes after you made your post, nigga.

>>154753263
>Sorry to the people I said I'd email yesterday, I ended up being busy all day.

Can email me the script today? The address is [email protected], if you forgot, though you can just post the gash image directly in thread.

>>154793914
I know, I just saw.

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A couple years ago there was an namefag that dumped translations and raws of yuuyami tokkoutai here, would anyone happen to know if the raws are still floating around? I was thinking about asking them if I could use their translation because the group originally working on it died a while ago, and he had up to volume five or so. All the old links are gone.

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>>154744650
>>154748217
>>154748918

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>people who make their scans jpgs

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I challenged myself to translate a volume in a day and chose Lupin.
But now I have to spend 3-4x as long typesetting.

What's a good font recommendation for this messy, handwritten style on this page?

>>154794790

You should see what Otakumole does to their raws. Place is a shit show now, even their translations are dropping in quality.

>>154793823
http://pastebin.com/pwHALcm1

>>154793823

1 sec.

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>>154793823

https://u.nya.is/mcdrsp.zip

>>154794790
I use tiff personally. But I know for a fact that something scanned with no compression has no jpg artifacts, so it doesn't matter either way. And you can just then later save it as a png for a smaller file size.

>>154795444
thanks anon

Is sokuyomi anon still a thing?

>>154789346
What website is EBJ? I tried googling it and got nothing relevant.

>>154795951
http://www.ebookjapan.jp/ebj/

>>154794859
Try janitor.

>>154735541
I already offered help on the typesetting to Habanero, but he didn't even replied.

>>154796727

Was that via email? I haven't gotten anything yet.

>>154796762
>I haven't gotten anything yet.
yeah, you seem to say that a lot more than the average idiot will believe
try toning it down and just ignoring them next time

>>154797021

I usually reply if I see a message. I'm also on IRC, so anyone can just message me on there if I'm not AFK.

>>154797095
What IRC?

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>>154797265

It's been up there since day one.

>>154729971
Nothing because I'm a lazy fuck.
I have like 6 doujin halfway translated/edited and some translated chapters of a manga that I don't want to commit to so I'm still wondering if I should release them or just wait for someone else to pick it up (Last release 1021d ago).

>>154794859
Aji Hand
Another
James Tan Dinawanao
Janitor

>>154791615

Filename function changed, not exactly a big deal but I just have to make sure that I don't have any pages that will get overwritten in the folder. Thanks though.

>>154796762
I tried to contact via the comments, sorry. I'll send an email.

>>154797310
So what is habanero, exactly? Is it a proper group or is it just people coming, picking something and working on that?

>>154797402

I hope you don't mean Batoto comments. Who checks those?

>>154797394
You can get the name of the book from document.title and append the page number to it to get distinct filenames. The default behavior if you have your browser set to automatically download images should be to just add a (1) though, it shouldn't overwrite anything without asking.

>>154797644
>should be to just add a (1) though, it shouldn't overwrite anything without asking.
I can confirm that it does exactly that.

せえ

this thread is dead?

>>154802845
It was a decent thread (the annoying tripfag wasn't here), if you have anything to discuss feel free to do it, but there's no need to keep it alive just because.

>>154762813
>I just wrote it without reading it properly
What in the actual fuck jesus christ

>>154803198
>It was a decent thread
minus the anti-wild words autist

>>154805849
You're the only autist here. Hell, you're too stupid to even type correctly. And you act like being against Wild Words is something that's actually bad or only one person does.

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Font suggestions?
I've using Komika Axis for it, but I feel there should be a better fit out there.

>>154807678
CCWW Bold.

>>154807678
Comic sans.

>>154807678
Times New Roman

>>154807713
you always say "Comic sans".

>>154807678
wild words just to upset the anti-wild words autist

>>154807678
the regular text font in bold italic

do you even comic books?

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Looking for a cleaner to help out on Gal Gohan while our usual guy is away for a month. Get in touch via our wordpress: https://raptorscans.wordpress.com/contact-us/

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>>154729971
Anyone care to pick up this?

https://myanimelist.net/manga/86062/Dragon_Quest__Souten_no_Soura

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The recently released Dragon Ball digests. Doing them at print resolution so I can have them printed and bound as hardcovers.

It's going to take a lot of coffee.

How do I get into scanlating exactly? I want to help with cleaning and redrawing so some manga I've been waiting for to read can get released faster but I don't know a thing.

>>154810280
Read some guides

>>154810306
I read a few but most of them are outdated.

>>154810280
1. Get photoshop.
2. Get raws.
3. Clean raws (cleaning method depending on raws in question).
4. Redraw using content aware fill, stamp, brush, etc.
6. ?????
7. Profit!

>>154810280

Some links I had on a .txt

This one is very good:

https://mangahelpers.com/forum/threads/advanced-redrawing-methodes.2993177/

This one is more about cleaning, but there's useful stuff for redrawing too:

http://www.ruinevil.com/rawr/editguide/1.html

If you're interested in typesetting and cleaning, check these guides too:


http://prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/anonblacks-typesetting-guide/
http://prettyanonymo.us/index.php/scanlation-resources/

http://coe.utah.edu/~christom/ (Cleaning)
http://forums.sensescans.com/index.php?topic=2814.0 (Cleaning)

>>154733606
Bakuon Rettou is fucking amazing, thank you for your hard work

Do you read the other Bakuon by any chance?

>>154810280
Before you start, even before you start reading guides on cleaning. Learn the basics of Photoshop first. This might seem like a waste of time. It isn't. Having an understanding of how Photoshop and image editing in general works will increase the quality of your work significantly. It's also worth learning some basic colour management.

For example
Do you know how to set up Photoshop to achieve the best performance on your computer?
Do you know what a scratch disk is?
Do you know the hotkeys for the most used tools?
Do you know the difference between fill and opacity?
Do you know the difference between raster output and vector output?
A quick tutorial will explain all of this

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Why aren't you translating the next big shounen?

>>154811457
I'm not the quoted anon. I have read a few tutorials already and I'm already working with typesetting for a few months, but I never found something about setting Photoshop to achieve the best performance. It would be great if you could share a tutorial with this information in it.

>>154811166
The guy said that the last thing he wants to do is scanlate. At least Delinquent Scans is kinda active in this project.

>>154810566
>content aware
Unironically kill yourself.

>>154812511
Fuck off and suck my dick you imbecile cripple.