Refactoring Pepper&Carrot webcomic to be compatible with printer

All long strips are now split to individual 300dpi pages.
4 episodes affected in 30 languages per episode.
Over 500 files manually edited and fixed.
The renderfarm script is now adapted ( simplified ).
This was a massive work of hundreds of hours.

Changelog :

Episode 1 :

Problems: It was a single long strip designed for web in first age of Pepper&Carrot.

• The panels are now wider and were patched to extend to the new panel size.
• The last panel takes now a full page. A starfield was added to fill the empty space.
• Three moon corrections to fit with the cosmology of Hereva.
• No more green panel border. Panels color are white to respect a standard.

Episode 2 :

Problems: It was a single long strip designed for web in first age of Pepper&Carrot.

• Drawing a new panel on page 4 was necessary to fill the page.
• A lot of panel extension painted on the top for wider panels.
• No more foggy border, back to a solid square design. ( foggy rounded panel are for flashback or dream ).

Episode 3:

Problems: Page 2 was irregularly sized.

• Page 2 first panel was extended and recolorized.
• Page 2 : speech balloon position were modified a lot.

Episode 5:

Problems: Last panel twist (page 4 ) was a irregularly sized page.

• A new panel was added, a close-up on the house. Many details were added. It's now a 'zoom out sequence' of panel.

Git commit :

• episode 1 : 1dc565279e012d1f012c63388d938d12f9057f71
• episode 2 : 6ed2807bcad59fb12fda84117d3c661ac38e99b5
• episode 3 : 23d7f7486a4af608201032b433a66bda0132ebc4
• episode 5 : 0adee9f070acb471bbb1f18a8ff52ecd6ed7c6f5

Standard infos :

Now Pepper&Carrot pages are all 2481x3503pixels, sRGB, 300dpi.
At episode 13, it represents now 74 comic pages ( x 30 languages , 2220 pages )

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David Revoy, www.davidrevoy.com, 7 january 2016.
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