Project Graphite

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Digital to Physical

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A private, client-side tool that turns digital comic archives into print-ready PDFs with spread alignment, booklet padding, flexible back covers and a live pre-print audit.

  • react
  • vite
  • typescript
  • webassembly
  • pdf
owner
Assem Amr Abdelfattah
source
project-graphite/digital-to-physical ↗
project page
/projects/digital-to-physical

releases · 2

v1.0.1 — Project Graphite branding

The app now carries the shared Project Graphite pencil-A mark in its browser tab and header.

changed

  • Replaced the favicon and the header brand glyph with the Project Graphite pencil-A mark66b9d7f · AmrMsCLL

v1.0.0 — First public release

Digital to Physical launches as a private, browser-only tool that turns comic archives into print-ready PDFs that bind cleanly into booklets. Spreads stay aligned across the fold, page counts are padded for folding, and a live audit checks the layout before you build.

added

  • Convert .cbz, .cbr, .zip and .rar comic archives into PDFs entirely in your browser, with RAR archives unpacked through WebAssembly and no files ever uploaded7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Live booklet preview and page grid showing trim boxes, spreads, padding pages and cover placement7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Automatic splitting of landscape double-page spreads, with left-to-right and right-to-left manga reading orders7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Spread alignment that keeps both halves of a split spread facing each other across the fold, for binding or two-up screen reading7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Booklet padding to a multiple of four or a custom multiple so the printed volume folds cleanly7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Advert and filler pool that fills padding pages with your own images, spread evenly across the volume with deterministic per-book ordering7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Back cover choices including auto-composed art, a solid colour, variant covers, a page from the archive, the front cover, an advert or your own uploaded image7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Live pre-print audit that checks the multiple-of-four page count, facing spread pairs and advert balance before you build7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Print and bind, Faithful copy and Two-up on screen presets7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Paper sizes from US comic to JIS B5 manga and custom sizes, with margins, DPI and optional carrier sheets with crop marks7db67fd · BluoCaroot
  • Whole JPEG pages are embedded byte for byte with no re-compression7db67fd · BluoCaroot