README
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2Comical - The Comic Book Archive reader
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5Finally - a cross-platform, open-source CBR and CBZ reader! Read your favorite
6scanned comic books and graphic novels with Comical's absurdly easy GUI and
7in-your-face double page display!
8
9Nifty Features:
10* Single-Page or Double-Page display modes.
11* Several zoom modes - Fit, Fit-to-Width, Fit-to-Height, Original, and Custom.
12* Crisp image scaling with algorithms adapted from FreeImage 3.
13* Autodetects double pages scanned together and displays it accordingly.
14* Page rotation.
15* Full-Screen mode.
16* Left-to-Right or Right-to-Left browsing.
17* Displays JPG, GIF, and PNG images.
18* Supports RAR(.cbr) and ZIP(.cbz) comic book archives
19* Supports all encrypted RAR archives as well as ZIP archives with pkzip 2.04g
20encryption.
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22What you need to compile from source:
23wxWidgets 2.6.0 or later
24gcc 3.3 or later
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26Acknowledgements:
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28Cross-platform magic and GUI Widgets provided by:
29wxWidgets (http://www.wxwindows.org)
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31Image resizing provided by:
32FreeImage (http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/).
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34JPEG support provided by:
35Independent JPEG Group (http://www.ijg.org/)
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37ZIP decompression provided by:
38Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Gilles Vollant.
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40RAR decompression provided by RARLabs. You cannot use the unrar source to
41re-create the RAR compression algorithm, which is proprietary. Distribution
42of modified Unrar source in separate form or as part of other software is
43permitted, provided that it is clearly stated in the documentation and source
44comments that the code may not be used to develop a RAR compatible archiver.
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47Copyright (c) 2003-2006 James Athey
48
49This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
50it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
51the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
52(at your option) any later version.
53
54This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
55but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
56MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
57GNU General Public License for more details.
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59You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
60along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
61Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
62
63In addition, as a special exception, the author gives permission to link the
64code of his release of Comical with Rarlabs' "unrar" library (or with modified
65versions of it that use the same license as the "unrar" library), and
66distribute the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
67in all respects for all of the code used other than "unrar". If you modify this
68file, you may extend this exception to your version of the file, but you are
69not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
70statement from your version.
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