XKCD2PDF

This one doesn't neccessary fall under the topic of this blog, but since it's a hacky thing I've done - I'm posting it here.

Some time ago I wanted to get all the XKCD comics stored on my iPad for offline viewing. Didn't find another solution so I cooked my own:

1. A script that gets the JSON files of each comics and rips the important info
2. Download the stuff
3. Build a HTML page describing the comics with their 'alt' part (the good stuff)
4. Open the HTML in Word, set margins to zero, save as PDF
5. ...
6. Profit!

I am really sorry about the 4th step, I know it's lame, but suprisingly, Word's "Save-as PDF" feature gave the best looking output.

And if you are lazy, you can grab the already generated PDFs here: (split in 3 chunks, the first 900 comics).

http://www.filesonic.com/file/2840295035/out.pdf
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2840295055/out2.pdf
http://www.filesonic.com/file/2840295065/out3.pdf

P.S. Here's the script: