Chapters
Uploading pages
Which files a chapter takes, how large a page may be, reading direction, and long strips.
A comic chapter is a set of page images. On the project’s chapter list, press Choose files. The Upload chapter panel opens: drop your files on its box, or click it to pick them. Nothing is sent until you press the upload button. A novel takes text instead: see Novels.
Which files
One image is one page: PNG, JPEG or WebP. A .zip, a .cbz or a .pdf is opened for you, and every image in it, or every page of the PDF, comes in as a page. SVG is not a page format.
How large a page may be
| What | Limit | A file outside it |
|---|---|---|
| Width | 700 to 1,300 pixels | Refused. Narrower lettering is too small to read, and a wider image is more than one page. |
| Height | 15,000 pixels | A taller file is always over the area limit too, so it is scaled down or cut first. |
| File size | 25 MB | Refused. |
| Area | 10 megapixels, about 1000 × 10000 | Scaled down to fit. In a long strip project, cut into pages instead. |
Every file is checked before anything is sent. If one is refused, nothing from that drop is added, and a message names the files and says why.
Page order
The files of one drop are put in order by file name. Numbers count as numbers, so page2 comes before page10. An archive’s images are sorted by their full path, folders included. A second drop goes after the first.
The panel shows a numbered thumbnail of each page: check the order before you upload. Clear staged pages empties the list.
What it costs before you start
The upload button shows the most the chapter can cost. For 20 pages in one language, through every step on the Standard model, it reads Upload chapter · up to 200 cr: 10 credits a page, and 3 more for each further language. A project that stops at an earlier step costs less. See The four steps and Credits and plans.
The figure is a ceiling. What is charged can be lower, for example for a page with no text on it. If your balance does not cover the figure, nothing runs.
Chapter number is filled with the next number in the project. Change it to fill a gap. When the upload finishes, the panel closes and the chapter’s row shows its progress.
Reading direction
You pick it on the Process step when you create the project: Right to left (manga), Left to right (comics) or Long strip (webtoon). It cannot be changed afterwards.
It sets the order the balloons are read in: in a right to left project, balloons side by side are listed from the right in the script. A CBZ from a right to left project is also marked as right to left, for reader apps that follow the mark.
Long strips
In a Long strip project, the files you drop are read as one strip, top to bottom, and cut at the gaps between panels into pages of up to 10,000 pixels tall. A tall file is split and short files are joined, so the pages are not the files you dropped. A note under the box says how many pages were made, and each is charged as one page.
In the other projects, an oversized page is scaled down, unless that would leave it under 700 pixels wide: then it is cut the same way. To choose the cuts yourself, see How to split a long webtoon strip.
Adding pages later
Open the menu at the end of the chapter’s row and pick Add pages…, then choose image files. They go after the last page, and only they are run and charged. The item is switched off while the chapter is running.
If an upload stops partway, press the upload button again and only the missing pages are sent. If you closed the panel, the chapter’s row offers Add the missing pages.
One page cannot be replaced, and a page cannot be added in the middle of a chapter. If a page is wrong, pick Delete chapter… and upload the chapter again, as a new run.