cbrPager (c) 2004 - John Coppens
This is a simple pager, written out because I did not want to dedicate the huge Java resources just to page through images.
It's released under the General Public License. The exact details are contained in the COPYING document included.
As it is, the executable is only about 100 kB, and has the following features:
- It does 'cbr' and 'cbz' files - I haven't encountered any other types of archives yet. Maybe someone will come up with cbz2?
- It decodes 'jpg' and 'jpeg' images, and should do gifs and pngs.
- When paging, it tries to be logical, going to the top of the next page and bottom of the previous page (settable).
- You can zoom in and out
- Notes
I'm not a very great reader of comic books, I just encountered one I liked and was then surprised that I could not locate a native reader for the format. It seemed a nice challenge, and some problems did arise from unsuspected corners.
So, I hope it's useful to someone.
Greetings,
John
Generating RPMs
Several people asked me to generate an RPM. My distro (Slackware) doesn't know rpms. Emmanuel Seyman seyman[at]wanadoo.fr, sent me a specfile which can be used to generate an rpm, using the command:
rpmbuild -tb cbrpager-x.y.z.tar.gz
where x.y.z is, of course, the right version. Though I offered to add an rpm to the package, according to Emmanuel, this is not as easy as it seems, as even rpms are not the same for each distribution.
Usage
It's not too difficult to use cbrPager, I guess. At least I've tried to keep it as simple as possible.
Though it can be used just as a GUI for reading cbr/cbz archives, since 0.9.8, it can also be used as a viewer for many file managers such as Midnight Commander or Rox, because it can now receive the name of the file to be opened as a command line parameter.
From that version on, it is also permitted to have a mix of image formats inside the archive (at first, cbrPager needed all of the images to be of the same type).