Tuesday, December 4, 2007

HowTo: Install Digital Comic Reader

Finally, a cross-platform, open-source CBR and CBZ reader! Read your favorite scanned comic books and graphic novels with Comical's absurdly easy GUI and in-your-face double page display!

Introducing Comical - Open source digital comic book reader

What is digital comic anyway?

Digital comic is an online versions of your favorite comics from the original printed comic papers.

Nifty Features:
* Single-Page or Double-Page display modes.
* Several zoom modes - Fit, Fit-to-Width, Fit-to-Height, Original, and Custom.
* Crisp image scaling with algorithms adapted from FreeImage 3.
* Autodetects double pages scanned together and displays it accordingly.
* Page rotation.
* Full-Screen mode.
* Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left browsing.
* Displays JPG, GIF, and PNG images.
* Supports RAR(.cbr) and ZIP(.cbz) comic book archives
* Supports all encrypted RAR archives as well as ZIP archives with pkzip 2.04g
encryption.

Comical Installation

Installation process requires that livna repo is currently installed from your box. If not and you are currently using Fedora 8, click this, but if you are using Fedora 7, click here. Livna repos supports most Fedora versions.

After a successful Livna repo installation, proceed with the below yum installation

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# yum -y install comical
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If you wish to see several list of digital comics (DC) library, you can check out Marvel's DC here.

For free digital comics, grab these and this link too.

Binary Launch: Alt+F2, comical

Sample Web ScreenShots:


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