Tutorial: FAQ
Comic Compiler vertically stitches together fragmented images and then splits them back in to "pages" based on the available breakpoints. Usually this is needed if you have digital comic book images that have been split and saved as individual panels and you want to view them as larger, connected 'pages'.
There are two ways to install and use Comic Compiler. The easiest way is usually via the ComGUI.exe as this has simpler installation instructions and also has help links directly back to this wiki. The other way is via the command line python script. For more information on how to run these, follow the installation instructions.
Breakpoints are the places in the series of images that would make good locations to split pages without cutting across text. For comics, this usually means the whitespace between panels, but depending on the artstyle of the series you may define your breakpoints differently.
Increase the Minimum Height Per Page!
This may be a problem with which Breakpoint Detection Mode you're using. Try changing the mode to 'Dynamic Search' and try again.
Make sure that your Input Files is correct, including any wildcards you may be using. If you're using ComGUI.exe make sure you're not using a 'relative path' (those will start with "./" or "../") as it's likely not pointing to the place you think it is!
It's not! Windows thinks it's a dangerous program because it is an 'exe' that can manipulate the files on your computer. It also does not "recognize" ComGUI.exe as a safe 'exe' file because I haven't paid someone to "verify" it.
To get past Windows Defender...
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If you still feel uncomfortable and don't want to use ComGUI.exe, you can still install the Command Line Version which comes with comgui-launcher.py that opens the exact same GUI. You can also create a shortcut from the comgui-launcher.py if you want to avoid using command line, just see our next FAQ question below.
Once you've followed the Python Command Line Installation Instructions you will have access to a script called comgui-launcher.py that you can trigger in order to get access to the ComGUI that's available via comgui.exe. If you don't like opening command line just to get to ComGUI, you can create a windows shortcut instead:
- Open the command terminal and run
where comgui-launcher.py. This should print out a location path on your computer that ends in 'comgui-launcher.py', copy this path for the next step!
Example:C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\Scripts\comgui-launcher.py - Right-click on desktop and select
New > Shortcut - When it asks you for the location to your file, paste the one you copied in the first step
- When it asks you to name the shortcut, call it
ComGUI - Done! Now just pin the shortcut where ever you want and open it whenever you need~
This program relies on another program called ImageMagick in order to properly read and manipulate image files. Make sure you've followed the installation instructions as they show you how to install ImageMagick. Also make sure to close and reopen ComGUI.exe or your terminal after installation in order pick up on the PATH variables that ImageMagick creates.