# Comic Page & Lettering Planner

> Plan comic panels, reading order and dialogue in an editable page. Create a comic page from a grid and one dialogue line per panel. Choose reading direction and print resolution, add optional rough figures, and download an SVG, lettering CSV and editable Flipline Comic Desk project.

Part of usefulweb.app (https://usefulweb.app/). Results are deterministic calculations from the inputs and the listed assumptions; the API returns exactly what the web page shows.

## Use it
- Human interface: https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/ (interactive tool at https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/tool)
- JSON API: POST https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/api/v1/calculate with a JSON object of inputs (schema: https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/api/v1/tool)
- OpenAPI: https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/openapi.json
- MCP (Streamable HTTP): https://fliplinecomicpage.usefulweb.app/mcp - tool `flipline_comic_page`

## Inputs
- name (text): Comic page name
- dialogue (textarea): Dialogue lines in reading order
- rows (integer): Panel rows
- columns (integer): Panel columns
- width (integer): Page width (px)
- height (integer): Page height (px)
- dpi (integer): Page resolution (DPI)
- reading (select): Panel reading direction
- figures (boolean): Include rough staging figures

## Method
- Comic pages are 400–2400 px wide, 400–4000 px high and at most 6 megapixels. A grid contains 1–12 panels and a page supports 36 balloons. Reading order follows spatial rows, left-to-right or right-to-left.
- One input line creates one speech balloon in reading order. Wrapping estimates system sans-serif widths and reduces lettering to fit, down to 12 px. Overflow is rejected for tool exports; original text remains in the editable project. Review glyph layout before printing.
- SVG dimensions use millimetres = pixels / DPI × 25.4. Lettering CSV follows reading order and guards formula-like leading characters. Optional figures are authored geometric staging, not generated illustrations.

## Limits
- Independent page-layout tool. No MediBang project import, CMYK conversion or exact font-metric guarantee.