Garfield Comics for HR+

[hansschmucker]

OK, just a little something from a garfield fan: I've downloaded all the images freely available from Garfield com (GIF), resized(480x X), rotated and saved to JPEG (looks terrible on a desktop, but great on the small Clié screen).

Now, I'm in the process of building a homepage and I've just put up the 80 comics that have been released in 2003.
Just for testing. If you want more (Over 9.000 total), just tell me. I just want to know if it's worth the effort.

All images are (c)Paws Inc.

http://www.x-mail.net/hansschmucker/

You need WinRAR from http://www.rarsoft.com to open the files.

[orol]

of course I do!
i have garfield every single day in may email it would be nice having it on my palm :o)

[patrickl]

I'm really a big Garfield fan too. How can you be so cruel to use rar though? I cant download it on my Clie now! ClieFiles (1.1) only supports ZIP.

[hansschmucker]

Sorry, but splitting a ZIP is a major **** ** *** ***. And the server allows only for files < 500kb. I hope I can make it up to you by giving you another ~1000 comics (2000 -2002).
http://www.x-mail.net/hansschmucker/

[rhart00]

what are you using to display the comics? i suggest ComicGuru 2

[hansschmucker]

Simply Splashphoto or AcidImage. CRS JPEG viewer is not that good, since it doesn't use the full 480px width, which results in scaled-down images.
But Acid or Splash do quite a descent job via Jogdial. I don't know which compression PocketGuru uses, but it's pretty hard to beat JPEG when it comes to lossy compression: About 120MB for 10000+ pictures!

[Raybot]

I've found Plucker to be quite good for comic strips (I've got a hacked-together shell script that generates the .html files given a directory full of .jpg's and runs convert over them to size them nicely) ... pitty it only allows files that are less than 64k in size :-(


- Raybot

[NR70V-o-holic]

Thank you so much, hansschmucker

I´m a big fan of Garfieldcomics too, it´s very nice to have it
on my clie also... :)

Noh

[leo_clie]

Has anybody an idea, where the link has moved to?

[magnus]

Yeah hans,
the link does not seem to be there anymore.

Also I know you have done so much, but would you or somebody who reads this please consider doing this with Calvin and Hobbes???
Thank you

[amrcanpoet]

I'm assuming since you're all Garfield fans, there must be a handfull of you who appreciate the nuances of Get Fuzzy. Anyone doing the same for this strip?

[avega]

The link is not working anymore, I can host the files if you want, send me a PM.

[LukeBM]

I remember seeing all Garfield stripes in ComicGuru format sometime back in time. They were organized by year.

L.

[Pdasrock]

The link is bustaficated. But thank for the idea! I think I'll get some, maybe for viewing as jpegs with acid image

[leo_clie]

Would you mind to post it here the link for all, but not for me especially.

[enderenya]

If you want a great freeware alternative to view jpegs, try http://www.geocities.jp/g_isihara/archive/JpegShow_US120.zip

(You'll need to right click and save target as... or go to the website... http://www.geocities.jp/g_isihara/ )

[ncoday]

I too would like very much to find out if the pictures will return.

I could possibly host some of the pics too depending on file size and how popular they become due to bandwidth.

[gaschip]

Guys, ever heard about ComicGuru?
I have all the Garfield strips since 1978 and u dont need to resize anything and they are compressed!!!

[leo_clie]

But ComicGuru just display the whole size, no zooming, no reducing ... I was not very satsified with it.

[DuXiii]

i like garfield,but i connect to the site refered in the top post only to get an 404 error?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!