As a continuation to my wildly popular XKCD2PDF post, here's a script I whipped out to get me some sweet PDFs of a great comic called The Oatmeal.
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2012/01/22
2011/10/31
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:
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:
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:
- A script that gets the JSON files of each comics and rips the important info
- Download the stuff
- Build a HTML page describing the comics with their 'alt' part (the good stuff)
- Open the HTML in Word, set margins to zero, save as PDF
- ...
- 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:
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