QComicBook v0.3.4 (c)by Pawel Stolowski 2005-2006 released under terms of GNU General Public License v2 1. Introduction --------------- QComicBook is a viewer for comic book archives containing jpeg/png/xpm/gif images, which aims at convenience and simplicity. Features include: automatic decompression, full-screen mode, two-pages viewing, japanese mode, thumbnails view, page scaling, mouse or keyboard navigation etc. 2. Requirements --------------- QComicBook requires Qt library version >=3.3.3, Imlib2 library and pkg-config. It *may* work with earlier versions of Qt (from 3.x family), but it was not tested. You will also need unzip, rar (or unrar), unace and tar (with gzip and bzip2 support compiled in) somewhere in your path to handle archives. If one of these tools is missing you can still use QComicBook, but you won't be able to open some archives. 3. Installation --------------- To compile QComicBook, you will need Qt and Imlib2 developement packages (usually named -devel- in many distros) and pkg-config. Compilation include three steps: ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make make install 4. Known issues --------------- * rar/unrar (and unzip/unace probably too) may have problems with files/dirs in the archive, which names contain non-ascii characters (like special characters for you language). As a result they won't be decompressed and qcomicbook may show "No images found" error box. * the free (opensource) unrar doesn't currently support 3.0 rar archives. Such archives are reported as empty by QComicBook. It is recommended to use non-free rar/unrar. 5. Bugs ------- Please report any bugs to: pawel.stolowski@wp.pl. Ideas are welcome too!