New gallery, this time with the raw PDF ripped at 300 dpi. Much better quality than the old gallery.

Update 4/2/2012: Decided to go ahead and upload the 1:1 rip of this thanks to Cheese Ninja. I'll also upload and seed a torrent for it because I really do feel bad about making people go through three revisions of this gallery. Check back soon for the torrent! Thanks all!

You know, I was just about to add the "already uploaded" tag, until I saw the description...

Base +7, HabaneroJim +13

B-but I already rated 5 stars for the lowres version! how am I suppose to rate 10 stars now?

Base +8, Alexaction393 +8, Thax82 +11, ubergeek1812 +8, eleeinos +24

If you have the raw .pdf why are you bothering to reencode the images instead of extracting them directly with something like FusionPDFextractor or xpdf tools' pdfimages.exe?

Edit: That's wierd, Fusion worked fine for me for lossless extraction, except its tendency to put the first image at the end... (annoying but made up for by its other qualities) I used it for ZSS's Nanoha scanlations, since I hate trying to read manga in a .pdf viewer. It has the added benefit of ignoring copy protection, which xpdf actually does pay attention to. On the other hand if I check the box in Fusion that reads "Use Ghostscript for PDF Whole Page Conversion" it gives different results, smaller file sizes in my case.

Edit 2: It ignored the internal protections that ZSS set up when they made the .pdf file. When I tried to use xpdf it wouldn't work. XPDF is open source, but I don't have any programming skills, so I had to find a different program that would allow me to extract the images losslessly. I tried a few things until I found a program that both allowed extraction and gave me the original image files in the process. Which I only read once, and then became completely pointless when ZSS released normal .zip files of those same chapters.

Base +7, grumpymal +29

Cheese, to be frank I wasn't aware of said tools and was instead looking for a way to tell internal resolution. I tried FusionPDFextractor and while it seemed to work decently on Fchiki! and the first Tessa book, it failed to extract the second Tessa book every time I tried. It also appeared to result in rather blocky-looking images that were somehow a larger filesize than the original PDF. XPDF seems to be able to extract the second book just fine, however, and at almost the exact same filesize. Thanks for that, though now I wonder if I should actually re-upload this yet again. On the one hand I don't want to tick off the powers that be (and the users here) but on the other, a proper 1:1 release would finally end things properly and from now on I'll know the right way to extract images from a PDF. I'll give it some thought and see what people think.

EDIT: Turns out the 'blocky' stuff was actually in the original PDFs! And by 'failed to extract' I mean I would tell it to extract and then it'd churn out some random number of pages each time (17, 43, 35, 42...) but would never get all 48 pages. And like I said the filesizes of the resulting files didn't match the PDF's original size. XPDF did though so I'm happy with it. Though it makes me wonder, you say that Fusion 'ignores copy protection' but what sort of copy protection are you referring to? Internal PDF protections or third-party plugins and filetypes?

Base +8, grumpymal +29

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