Comic Book Reader Software?

mrgreen4242 · Apr 1, 2004, 08:21 AM

I'm switching from PC to Mac, and one of the smaller apps that I use is called Comic Book Reader. It's to read digital comic archives. (I like to have digital copies of my comics for backup, as well as transportabilty purposes). The archives are simply jpegs inside of .rar files (sometimes .zip) and the reader is just an image viewer that loads images from inside a single archive sequentially, pre-caches the next 2 or so pages (for fast 'page turning'), advances to the next page with an easy, user definable button, and has a few zooming and pannign options to help see the whole page or portions of it with easy/fast commands.

Does anyone knwo of anything for the Mac that will do this?
Thanks,
Rob

warreng · Apr 1, 2004, 09:07 AM

Check out a program called Comical. You can find it on sourceforge. It is not quite as full featured as CDisplay on windows, but is only a couple of months old. The developer has done a great job so far. It was a little rough getting it set up in the early stages but I think he has a installer pkg now.

Check out http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics...splay.php?f=47
for the lowdown.

-warreng

mrgreen4242 · Apr 1, 2004, 09:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by warreng

Check out a program called Comical. You can find it on sourceforge. It is not quite as full featured as CDisplay on windows, but is only a couple of months old. The developer has done a great job so far. It was a little rough getting it set up in the early stages but I think he has a installer pkg now.

Check out http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics...splay.php?f=47
for the lowdown.

-warreng

Woowoo. Thanks a MILLION. That's what I was lookign for! It's nice to see its opensource and it will run under Linux too (I was looking for a good linux reader... how I missed this, I have no idea

)

Thanks again
Rob

cb911 · Apr 1, 2004, 04:11 PM

sweet!! and to think that i've been un-archiving everything and using Preview to view it...

this should come in very handy.

hob · Apr 1, 2004, 06:39 PM

Hey, I like to read the odd comic book here and there... where can you get the appropriate files from? Do people do internet only books? are the old faves available? I love stuff like Judge Dredd, The Matrix stuff that's floating around, Star Trek Graphic Novels and Transmetropolitan

Apr 1, 2004, 08:21 AM	#1
mrgreen4242 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Feb 2004	Comic Book Reader Software? I'm switching from PC to Mac, and one of the smaller apps that I use is called Comic Book Reader. It's to read digital comic archives. (I like to have digital copies of my comics for backup, as well as transportabilty purposes). The archives are simply jpegs inside of .rar files (sometimes .zip) and the reader is just an image viewer that loads images from inside a single archive sequentially, pre-caches the next 2 or so pages (for fast 'page turning'), advances to the next page with an easy, user definable button, and has a few zooming and pannign options to help see the whole page or portions of it with easy/fast commands. Does anyone knwo of anything for the Mac that will do this? Thanks, Rob __________________ iMac 2.4ghz Core2Duo, 2gb, 1.5TB Dell mini 9, 2gb, 32gb SSD, OS X 16gb iPod touch - 40gb AppleTV Nikon D40 w/ Sigma 18-200mm OS

Apr 1, 2004, 04:11 PM	#4
cb911 macrumors 68040 Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: BrisVegas, Australia	sweet!! and to think that i've been un-archiving everything and using Preview to view it... this should come in very handy. __________________ Thankyou Mr George Hotz for the 1.1.2 & 1.1.3 OTB iPhone unlock solution!

Apr 1, 2004, 06:39 PM	#5
hob macrumors 68000 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: London, UK	Hey, I like to read the odd comic book here and there... where can you get the appropriate files from? Do people do internet only books? are the old faves available? I love stuff like Judge Dredd, The Matrix stuff that's floating around, Star Trek Graphic Novels and Transmetropolitan __________________ see robmac.net for my work

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Apr 1, 2004, 09:07 AM	#2
warreng macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2004	Check out a program called Comical. You can find it on sourceforge. It is not quite as full featured as CDisplay on windows, but is only a couple of months old. The developer has done a great job so far. It was a little rough getting it set up in the early stages but I think he has a installer pkg now. Check out http://www.sketchyorigins.com/comics...splay.php?f=47 for the lowdown. -warreng