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Twokinds available in CBZ, PDF and ZIP format

#1 Post by Thebestofrobin »

Hello everybody,

First of, I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place.

As most of you I'm a fan of Twokinds.
I like to re-read the comic a few times a year.
I prefer to do that in PDF format so I don't have to wait for the website to load and there are no loading times between pages.
Also I don't have to rely on an internet connection and you can use the keyboard to go to the next / previous page.

I'm a programmer by proffesion so I can make some handy stuff for myself to use.
In this case I made a script that downloads all the pages to my local PC.
Then I made a script that generates PDF's useing the downloaded pages.

There is 1 massive PDF with every page in it in order.
There are also chapter PDF's, so if you only want a specific chapter you can download that.
I've also made a distinction for special "chapters", like the 10th Anniversary chapter and the latest april fools pages (I like them :) ).
The latest chapter PDF and the massive PDF should be updated within 24 hours of a new page posted online.
I have to manually start the script as there are no fixed release days.

I have no idea if you guys/girls find this usefull but I just wanted to share them with the community because they are already generated so why not share them.
You can find the page here http://www.robinvandevoorde.nl/twokinds/.
I'm not very good with making a webpage look pretty and nice so it's not a very fancy page.

If there are any comments, tips or other PDF's you might want to see let me know via this post or PM and I'll see what I can do.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day :)

Update: 09 May 2014

* added: Chapter downloads without filler pages for the chapters that do have filler pages
* added: PDF of the complete comic without filler pages
* added: PDF with all the pages of the comic in the old size
* added: PDF with all the pages of the comic in the current size
* added: PDF with all the filler pages
* added: Update date of a file
* changed: PDF April fool 2014 to April fools with every april fools page in it.

Update: 21 May 2014

* added: ZIP archive of every page from the webcomic
* added: CBZ archive of every page from the webcomic

Update: 31 May 2014

* added: every PDF available is also available in CBZ and ZIP format
* added: separate column for the CBZ/ZIP file size
* changed: In stead of clicking on the name of the PDF there are now 3 separate download links for the 3 available formats
* changed: The website is now 1100 pixels wide to accomedate the new column mentioned above
* changed: The name of this topic to include the new formats.

Update: 02 June 2014

* fixed: Chapter 5 had 2 pages from Chapter 6 part 1
* fixed: The first page of Chapter 6 part 1 was missing.
* fixed: Download links for Chapter 3 didn't work correctly on mobile devices.
Thanks to TraLi for letting me know and testing the link fix.
Thanks to Ardal for testing the link fix.

Update: 21 June 2014

* added: Group B CBZ, PDF and ZIP.
It was inspired by Tom with his link to the group B archive.
I've made 2 changes.
1: Added the Chapter titel page of Chapter 16 because it has Raine in it and it looks nice :)
2: Up to date with the newest pages or group B

Update: 09 Augustus 2014

* changed: The PDF's now use JPEG images instead of the PNG images witch makes them smaller in size.
After some testing I found out there is no visual difference between JPEG in the PDF at 91% and PNG in the PDF at 91%.
So all chapters have been regenerated and are smaller in size because of the JPEG's.

Update: 10 Augustus 2014

* Fixed: When downloading a file with Firefox the filename was only Twokinds and not the complete filename.
Thanks to MuonNeutrino for letting me know.
My apologies to Firefox users, I should have tested it for all the major browsers.

Update: 26 January 2015

*Added: On requests section (bottom of the page)
*Added: Twokinds - Chapter 17 - Stranded and 10th Anniversary Chapter - without filler page - Bellhead edition to On requests section.
*Added: Twokinds - Chapter 17 - Stranded and 10th Anniversary Chapter - without filler page - Bellhead edition - 110 to On requests section.

Update: 02 February 2015

* Changed: 100 DPI to 110 DPI to calculate the dimensions of the pages in the PDF (for better image quality of a page).
* Changed: 91% default zoom to 100% default zoom in the PDF (for better image quality of a page).
* Regenerated: Every PDF using the new settings.

Update: 20 February 2015

* Added: Twokinds - Chapter 18 - Coming home

Update: 07 July 2015

* Fixed: I missed a chrismas filler page in chapter 15. All files with chapter 15 that have no fillers have been corrected.

Update: 09 July 2015

* Added: Twokinds - Filler pages including old ones.

Update: 28 July 2015

* Added: Twokinds - Chapter 18 - Coming home - without filler page

Update: 18 August 2015

* Fixed: Page 873 was missing from every file that should have contained it.

Update: 19 November 2016

* Added: Twokinds - Chapter 19 - Reunions

Update: 25 December 2016

* Added: Twokinds - Chapter 19 - Reunions - without filler page

Update: 16 february 2017

* Updated: all the files that included the old size old pages have been updated with the new size old pages
* Updated: the website is now 1200 pixels in width to accommodate the new larger file names. If there are problems with this let me know so I can work on a solution
* Updated: The file "Twokinds" now contains the old filler pages in there correct place (or very close to it)
* Added: every file that has the new size old pages also has an old size old pages download available in the "Files with the old size old comic pages" section

Update: 02 March 2017

* Fixed: 2 recent pages where missing from the files.

Update: 07 April 2018

* Added: Twokinds - Chapter 20 - Stories of the Estate

Update: 15 March 2020

* Added: Twokinds - Chapter 21 - Sacrifices of the Past

Update: 06 January 2023

* Added: Twokinds - Chapter 22 - Severance

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#2 Post by obi-wan »

very nice idea
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#3 Post by Thebestofrobin »

obi-wan wrote:very nice idea
Thank you :), I've also done it for another webcomic I like but never really shared it, because there is no forum for that webcomic (that I could find).

In case you want to know wich webcomic, it's the 2 Jay Naylor has done.
Better Days and Original Life.

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Thebestofrobin wrote:
obi-wan wrote:very nice idea
Thank you :), I've also done it for another webcomic I like but never really shared it, because there is no forum for that webcomic (that I could find).

In case you want to know wich webcomic, it's the 2 Jay Naylor has done.
Better Days and Original Life.
That's probably for the best, frankly. I like his art, but his writing is.... often less than agreeable.

Nice job with the organization and uploading, by the way. It's cool to find community members who are as diligent as this, to continually update when a comic comes out.
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Myperson54 wrote:That's probably for the best, frankly. I like his art, but his writing is.... often less than agreeable.

Nice job with the organization and uploading, by the way. It's cool to find community members who are as diligent as this, to continually update when a comic comes out.
Thank you :).
I've seen examples of people just uploading once and never updating again and I kinda hate that (although I can understand it).
That's why i agreed with myself if I ever did something like that I would stick with it until I don't like the thing I'm doing it off or I just don't have the time for it anymore.
Time shouldn't be a problem because I've made it very easy for myself to download and generate it.
Just got to press 3 links on my local server and after they are done just upload it :).

I used to put them on 4shared.com but they changed the way you can download from there so now I just use my (newly made) webspace.
Still have no real plans for the main site :P

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Thebestofrobin wrote:
obi-wan wrote:very nice idea
Thank you :), I've also done it for another webcomic I like but never really shared it, because there is no forum for that webcomic (that I could find).

In case you want to know wich webcomic, it's the 2 Jay Naylor has done.
Better Days and Original Life.
This is great work. Thank you.
I wonder if you'd share (or note me) the link for Better Days... I'm a fan of that as well.

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#7 Post by Thebestofrobin »

Ponjos wrote:This is great work. Thank you.
I wonder if you'd share (or note me) the link for Better Days... I'm a fan of that as well.
Thank you :).
At the moment of writing this the Original life PDF is still uploading (50% done, should take 5 mins).
I'll probably make a website for it like the Twokind one tomorrow because it's 11 PM here and almost time to go to bed because I have to work tomorrow.

Here is the link http://www.robinvandevoorde.nl/jaynaylor/, when the webpage is up just follow the same link :).

Edit: 24 April 2014
The website page for Jay Naylor is up.

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It's beautiful! Thank you so much. I'm away from wireless a whole lot, so this is great for me. :grin:
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Stormlight wrote:It's beautiful! Thank you so much. I'm away from wireless a whole lot, so this is great for me. :grin:
Thank you for the compliment :).
I'm glad you found it usefull :D.

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I am liking this a lot, since my own archive was lost to a harddrive crash...
You should ask a mod if you could have this thread put into a sticky, so it stays at the top.
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Bellhead wrote:I am liking this a lot, since my own archive was lost to a harddrive crash...
You should ask a mod if you could have this thread put into a sticky, so it stays at the top.
I completely agree. Is there any chance we could "sticky" this post?
I don't know the requirements for such a thing but I think this might count as a worthy, continuing endeavor.

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Bellhead wrote:I am liking this a lot, since my own archive was lost to a harddrive crash...
You should ask a mod if you could have this thread put into a sticky, so it stays at the top.
Thank you for the heads up about harddrive crashes.
I need to back up my code :P.
In case of a harddrive crash I can just download all the images again and start generating :D.

About the sticky, I'll probably ask for it when I think I'm satisfied with all the available downloads.
I'm thinking of adding some more.
Like 1 for the old size comics and 1 for the new size comics.
And maybe chapter PDF's without filler pages just for those who don't want them.
I'll probably work on that in the upcoming weekend.

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Bellhead wrote: You should ask a mod if you could have this thread put into a sticky, so it stays at the top.
Seconded (If that makes any difference :) )
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#14 Post by Thebestofrobin »

I've updated my code and generated some new PDF's and changed 1 PDF.
Also I've added a date for every file when it was last updated (I ran a complete update today).
Here is a list of the updates, this can also be viewed in the first post of this topic.

* added: Chapter downloads without filler pages for the chapters that do have filler pages
* added: PDF of the complete comic without filler pages
* added: PDF with all the pages of the comic in the old size
* added: PDF with all the pages of the comic in the current size
* added: PDF with all the filler pages
* added: Update date of a file
* changed: PDF April fool 2014 to April fools with every april fools page in it.

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#15 Post by trantor »

Really great piece of work Robin. Love it :D

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