Overview
General info
QComicBook is a viewer for comic book archives (.cbr, .cbz and alike) containing jpeg/png/xpm/gif/bmp images, which aims at speed, convenience and ease of use.
QComicBook was written in C++ and uses the great Qt library. It doesn't depend on KDE or any other desktop environment and works pretty well with GNOME, XFCE and others.
QComicBook was first released on Jan 7th 2005 and has been under constant development since then.
Features
Main QComicBook features are:
- automatic unpacking of archives (rar, zip, ace, 7z, tar.gz, tar.bz2 archives are supported via external utilites)
- continuous scrolling mode
- frame view mode (frame-by-frame reading, comic frame detection)
- double-pages viewing
- manga mode
- thumbnails view
- bookmarks
- full-screen mode
- page scaling (fit to window width or height, whole page)
- mouse or keyboard navigation
- image preloading in sepearate thread
- image rotation with 90 deg step, with ability to preserve rotation for consecutive pages
QComicBook has been translated into several languages.
Requirements
Compilation-time requirements are:
- GNU GCC C++ compiler (g++)
- Qt toolkit version 4.5.0 or newer, including development packages and helper tools: uic, moc and lrelease.
- cmake build system.
- GNU make.
Runtime requirements are:
- Qt library version 4.5.0 or newer.
- one or more of the following archivers: unzip, rar or unrar (non-free rar/unrar is recommended), unace, p7zip and tar (with gzip and bzip2 support) available in PATH. If one of these tools is missing you can still use QComicBook, but you won't be able to open some archives.
Reviews
QComicBook was reviewed in Stripschrift magazine (June 2006).
