v1.3: Download Functionality

New Features:

• Now you can download guides from the internet by providing a URL.
  Can download from:
  • GameFAQs text guides: use the URL that opens the guide normally, the program automatically parses the HTML response to extract text.
    Example URL: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/[console]/[game-id]/faqs/[faq-id]
  • NeoSeeker text guides: provide the direct URL to the .txt document (use the top-right view source button).
    Example URL: https://faqs.neoseeker.com/Games/[console]/[file].TXT
  • Any URL that returns a text/plain document.

v1.2: New Image Modes

New Feature:

Output manual images in different sizes for different experiences:

Modes

• Fullscreen: Native Fullscreen (960x544)
• Native Width Scrollable: Native Width with Scrolling (960x750)
• Max Height Scrollable: Max Possible Height with Scrolling (480x1500)
• Minimum Width Scrollable: Minimum Width with Scrolling (544x1420)
• Best Width Scrollable: 720px Width with Scrolling (720x1072)
• Vertical: Native Fullscreen, but rotated. Hold your Vita sideways! (544x960)

Other changes:

• Open text files in UTF-8 encoding by default. Fallback is system default (e.g. Windows = 'cp1252')
• Replace tabs in text file with spaces in image
• Add command line input arguments

v1.1 Small Adjustments

Changelog:

• Changed output directory to Manual/ for easy usage on the Vita..
• Fixed crash when output directory already exists

v1.0: Initial Release

This script converts a text file into a format suitable to use as a Vita's Bubble manual. This works by rendering the text file into a series of PNG files, naming them as 001.png, 002.png, and so on, and maximizing as much space as possible.

Usage

The script has the following dependencies:

• Python 3
• Pillow pip install Pillow

To use the script version, just pass the text file as the first argument:
python txt-to-vita-manual.py text-file-example.txt

The executable version has all dependencies included, and is used similarly with the text file as an argument:
txt-to-vita-manual.exe text-file-example.txt

It'll output the images to an output directory in the working dir.