![]() After you are finished and have disconnected your iPad from the computer, start Comic Zeal on the iPad and the new comics will be processed. Once it has copied here, it will immediately sync to your iPad and Comic Zeal program. From here, click to select Comic Zeal and then drag and drop the “CBR” file you created earlier into this box. Here you will see a list of each app loaded on your device that can load documents onto your iPad. ![]() Then, click on the “app” tab and scroll to the bottom of the screen. With iTunes open (the application that Apple uses to sync your iPad with your Mac or PC), click on your device (i.e., “Bill’s iPad”) in the left column. Once you have downloaded the Comic Zeal app to your iPad, sync the device with your computer. ![]() You can identify a universal version of any app in the App Store as they have the small “+” symbol in the price box that you click to download the app. ![]() The universal version will work on both the iPad and the iPhone and costs $7.99. Once in the App Store, search for Comic Zeal. If you have an iPad (or an iPhone) you obtain Comic Zeal from the App Store on your device. So, just what is Comic Zeal, how do you get it and how do you you get your comics into it? By doing this, all issues of Pep Comics will be in a box with the title, “pep”. For example, the CBR folders I have for each Pep Comics issue looks like this, “pep 001”, “pep 002”, etc. If you want Comic Zeal to sort all issues of the same title in their own “comic box”, the name of the folder for each issue must be the same for each comic you create using this method. I then have a comic book file that can be loaded into Comic Zeal. Third, I place all of the pages of the comic into one folder, compress the folder into a “zip” file and change the extension from “zip” to “cbr”. The cover of the comic is generally page 001 with the back cover having the last page number. For instance, Pep Comics #22 would generally look like this: “pep22_01.jpg”, “pep22_02.jpg”, “pep22_03.jpg”, etc., where the title of the comic is followed by the issue and the page number. Second, I make sure that each file (page) in the comic has a name that will cause the pages to display in the proper order. Any good scanner and photo editing program will be able to produce this for you. This results in a JPEG file of around 200 kb. I generally have used an image size of about 900 x 1275 pixels at 150 pixels per inch (6 x 8.5 inches) per page. There’s no magic here you want to scan the comic book page in a resolution that is not too large, but that will look good on the iPad’s 9.7 inch display. I use a Mac Book Pro, but any OS X or Windows based computer will work.įirst, I obtain a JPEG image of each page of the comic book I want on my iPad. If you have basic computer skills you should be able to do this without much trouble. Before I talk more about Comic Zeal, let me describe how I manage to create a file that Comic Zeal will be able to read and display. Of course, the iPad does not have a native comic book reader, but I have found that Comic Zeal for the iPad is perfect for this task. Likewise, if you dare, you can scan your original Golden Age books into a format that can be read on your iPad. I found however, that a number of old comics in the public domain have been scanned and are available for download (i.e., ). Unfortunately, unlike modern comics that are almost all digitized during their creation, Golden Age material is generally not available in that format. I should point out that I have used my new iPad for a variety of work related endeavors (In fact, it was a work related use that finally sold me on the device), but I have been blown away by the comic reading utility that my iPad provides along with the Comic Zeal App.īeing a fan of Golden Age Comics, I wanted to build a library of this great old material on my iPad. After several trips to the Apple Store to “play” with the iPad, I decided to purchase one for my very own in a 32GB WIFI-only flavor. Being a fan of comics, I was immediately intrigued by this new reader, having already discovered that I could not easily read comics on my Amazon Kindle. It is a revolutionary device that will likely become the electronic book reader of choice for millions of people who prefer to carry their portable libraries stored away in bits and bytes. Apple’s iPad has received a lot of media attention lately.
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