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==Djvu to PDF==
How do you change Djvu files to PDF? I watched files you put in and some are good but some are illegible so I wanted to ask.--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 10:12, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:[https://www.onlineconverter.com/djvu-to-pdf www.onlineconverter.com]--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 10:16, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
::I broke djvu to jpg and then combined into pdf.  The quality was better than the online converter but the files were larger and the process was quite long.--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 10:53, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:::So... do you want to do it instead? --[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 11:01, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
::::I just wanted to say that if the file is very unreadable then you can always use this method.--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 11:06, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:::::I see... I'll give it a try then...--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 11:11, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
::::::So what about now?... [https://retrocdn.net/File:GryKomputerowe_PL_21.pdf Does it look good to you?]...--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 11:28, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:::::::This one looks good and [https://retrocdn.net/images/f/f3/GryKomputerowe_PL_25.pdf this one does not]--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 12:20, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:::::::: I've done as you said... which tool have you used ?...--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 12:31, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
::::::::: Edit: issue #25 outputs pages with a low resolution of 419x594  ...--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 12:43, 7 May 2020 (EDT)

"it's a big faff"

I got some results:

#Avoid the online converters - they're not fit for purpose.
#Hunt down the DjVuLibre library
#Use the ddjvu command line tool to output each page as a TIFF file (http://djvu.sourceforge.net/doc/man/ddjvu.html) (the PDF conversion leads to stupid file sizes - ignore that)
#Convert pages to JPEG
#[[File:JPEGtoPDF.7z]]


<pre>
rem Look at me I'm a batch script.

@echo off
rem del *.jpg /Q

rem Extract each page as TIFF files
for /L %%A in (1,1,36) do (
  ddjvu -format=tiff -page=%%A test.djvu test%%A.tif
)

rem Get Imagemagick to convert from TIFF to JPEG.
magick mogrify -format jpg -quality 75 *.tif

rem Delete all the remaining TIFF files
del *.tif /Q
</pre>

e.g.
[[:File:GryKomputerowe PL 06.pdf]]

I'm sure it can be made more intelligent. -[[User:Black Squirrel|Black Squirrel]] ([[User talk:Black Squirrel|talk]]) 13:02, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:Here are some better quality Top Secret scans. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Bajtek%22 --[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 13:07, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:: Sorry... but to me is like reading Chinese... I'm not the guy for this job... I'm not an expert in this stuff... I was "just looking for some scanned Mega Drive Manuals" (remember?... no offense)... but you can count on me to upload large files ;) ... --[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 13:15, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
::: That's why I put everything in jpg :)--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 13:25, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
::::But I think is much better to have the whole magazine... I mean... they are old, rare and cool... I will replace those fucked up "Top Secret" pdfs for the good ones at archive.org--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 13:33, 7 May 2020 (EDT)
:::::I have a request. Could you load this file because I wanted to replace one jpg with this https://archive.org/details/secretservicemagazine-1995-11/page/n3/mode/2up --[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 05:22, 8 May 2020 (EDT)
::::::Sorry for the late reply... sure, no problem...--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 09:12, 8 May 2020 (EDT)
:::::::Done ;) ...--[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 09:32, 8 May 2020 (EDT)
::::::::Thanks :)--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 12:47, 8 May 2020 (EDT)
:::::::::Hello it is me again. I have a request once again. Can you please upload this file again https://retrocdn.net/File:Hacker_06_HR_Europatrade_advert.png because for some reason it doesn't display correctly (I don't know if it's the site's fault or mine)? And I would also ask you to insert this file https://archive.org/details/Re0193OCR/page/n36/mode/1up because there is one article about Master System. Thanks.--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 07:14, 23 January 2021 (EST)
::::::::::Interesting story about Erik Mahnkopf and Malte Nickau. I've never heard of them and Champion Train '93.--[[User:Lukdriver14|Lukdriver14]] ([[User talk:Lukdriver14|talk]]) 08:58, 23 January 2021 (EST)
:::::::::::Done... I don't know why that happens with some files ... I've uploaded some files that ended like that too... sorry... Yep :) ... it's a cool story... I thought  that they were just some random guys (and they were... kind of...) ... it's good to know that they succeeded in life :) --[[User:Asagoth|Asagoth]] ([[User talk:Asagoth|talk]]) 09:11, 23 January 2021 (EST)