Xkcd+alt-text in a pdf?

I would love to see some kind of tool, a script that download every xkcd comic and the alt text and put them in a pdf file. It would be great to print and put on the can for everyone to read.
Anybody of you guys that knows of a script that does this? Or are willing to create one?

whacath wrote:But "putting more then one comic on one page" doesnt seem to work with xkcd comics
It works, but since most images are too large, reportlab places only one image per page. Use --scale option to decrease sizes of images.
moljac024 wrote:Wouldn't it better if the alt-text was below the image, not above it?
Done.
Updated the script.
1) Added --margin-{left,right,top,bottom} options to specify margins (in inches) when using reportlab
2) Added an ability to output comics to a HTML-file
3) Added --title-font-size and --alt-font-size options (guess what they do )
4) --scale option renamed into --image-scale
Output to HTML currently doesn't support image scaling to remove the dependence on python-imaging when using this mode.
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Last edited by Atragor (2010-03-02 18:34:47)

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