What's New in Version 4.0.8
Dearest users, quite a few changes for you this time. We've added the ability to change the background, tap-to-turn pages, resume reading from where you left off and a very important crash fix. Details are below, even if you don't go through every change please read the note at the bottom regarding Comic Zeal Sync.
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It would mean the world to us if you would update your reviews to reflect the improvements in this new version.
- Now remembers if you quit while reading a comic and displays it on start-up.
- Can now tap the edges of the screen to change page. The tap area is a little narrow so that you can easily reach past it with your thumb for scrolling. The BEST way to change page is to simply slide your thumb from the bevel into the screen and back. It's picked up as a page turn every time and it's very natural.
- Added an in-app options button that allows changing the background and toggling tap-to-turn pages. Will add the rest of the options in subsequent releases.
- When the user tries to load an image that's too large for the iPad CZ resizes it, saves it so that it won't be a problem again and shows the user a dialog explaining what happened, the dialog is only shown once. This fixes the crash on page load that some people were experiencing.
- Will now always show the series of the comic you're reading when the category pop-up is shown.
- Fixed a problem where the application would crash if the user attempted to load their comics on the first ever run of the app.
- Fixed problem with having to press category selections twice.
- Fixed crash when 'saving' a move operation where there were no categories.
- The cursor will now automatically come up when renaming or moving.
- Changed 'Other ...' prompt when selecting a series to 'New Series or Rename ...'
- Flick-scrolling now slows down more slowly ... ok, so it's like this, when you flick the page it keeps on scrolling after your finger stops touching the screen. I've changed a parameter so that it scrolls for longer.
NOTE: We've modified the Comic Zeal Sync application on our website to resize comics to iPad compatible resolutions. You can download it from the Comic Zeal 3 page.
Most of you will probably want to use the built-in import method but if your comics have a lot of pages that are larger than 2048 pixels then the slight delay in page turns can get annoying. Although the resized image is saved so it opens up quickly from then on, when you're reading through a comic where EVERY page needs to be resized it doesn't give you the experience we're aiming for.
So what you can do is run the comics with large images through Comic Zeal Sync, set to the iPad resolution, and then import the .cbi files as you would your cbz/cbr files through iTunes File Sharing.
