File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.5
Notes: ------------------------------------------------ Comical - The Comic Book Archive reader for *nix ------------------------------------------------ Finally - native CBR and CBZ support on your favorite Unix! Read your favorite scanned comic books and graphic novels with Comical's absurdly easy GUI and in-your-face double page display! Nifty Features: Single-Page or Double-Page display modes. Several zoom modes - 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, Fit, Fit-to-Width, and Fit-to-Height. Crisp image scaling with algorithms adapted from FreeImage 3. Autodetects double pages scanned together and displays it accordingly. Full-Screen mode (not on MacOS X). Displays JPG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF images. Supports RAR(.cbr) and ZIP(.cbz) comic book archives Rationale: I wrote Comical because I felt somehow dirty using CDisplay through Wine, and I really wanted to share the fun of CBRs with a Mac-using friend of mine. The demand for both a Linux and a Mac OS X version of CDisplay on the Mutant Liberation Front Forums also spurred me on. Requirements: It should be possible to build Comical on any platform which supports wxWidgets >=2.4 with zlib support and a recent ISO/C98 compliant C++ compiler, like gcc 3.x. Thanks: Cross-platform magic and GUI Widgets provided by: wxWidgets (http://www.wxwindows.org) Image resizing provided by: FreeImage (http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/). JPEG support provided by: Independent JPEG Group (http://www.ijg.org/) TIFF support provided by: Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2004-2005 James Athey This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. In addition, as a special exception, the author gives permission to link the code of his release of Comical with Rarlabs' "unrar" library (or with modified versions of it that use the same license as the "unrar" library), and distribute the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than "unrar". If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
Changes: 0.5 - bzip2 support has been dropped until someone actually needs it Now using non-GPL unrar code for cbr's Added exception to GPL to use unrar Now using zlib and wxZipInputStream for cbz's 6 selectable scaling algorithms Moved page navigation features to "Go" menu Functions renamed for consistency (Zoom, Mode, and Filter) View settings, window dimensions, and current working directory are now saved Read-ahead caching and multithreading for responsiveness Added ability to rotate pages Added page navigation button bar to the bottom of the window 0.4 - Added support for bzip2 archives, with extension .bz2 or .cbb Added more sensical keyboard shortcuts New icon, courtesy of gotterdamm Added Fit to Width and Fit to Height zoom modes Added Single Page mode New configure script generated by KDevelop Now using wxLog instead of stderr for logging and errors Added Go To Page function 0.3 - You can specify a comic book from the commandline now Starts with open dialog when started without arguments Added single page slide PNG, GIF, and TIFF pages now supported, but untested Lots of functions and variables renamed from *jpeg* to *image* Added image resizing from FreeImage 3. Looks SO much better. Put ComicalCanvas canvas class into its own source file 0.2 - Pages are now sorted Fixed stupid bug in ScaleJpeg when page was wider than canvas 0.1 - Initial Release
