
  cbrPager (c) 2004- - John Coppens
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This is a simple pager, written out because I did not want to dedicate
the huge Java resources just to page through images.

It's released under the General Public License. The exact details are
contained in the COPYING document included.

As it is, the executable is only about 100 kB, and has the following
features:

	- It does 'cbr', 'cbz' and 'cb7' files - I haven't encountered
	  any other types of archives yet. Maybe someone will come up 
	  with cbz2?

	- It decodes 'jpg' and 'jpeg' images, and should do gifs
	  and pngs.

	- When paging, it tries to be logical, going to the top
	  of the next page and bottom of the previous page (settable).

	- You can zoom in and out

Notes:

Note that you may have to install 'unrar' on linux systems. This 
utility doesn't seem to be distributed normally.

I'm not a very great reader of comic books, I just encountered one I
liked and was then surprised that I could not locate a native reader 
for the format. It seemed a nice challenge, and some problems did
arise from unsuspected corners. Later I found that this format is 
quite usable to group scanned documents...

So, I hope it's useful to someone.

Greetings,
John


Generating RPMs
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  Several people asked me to generate an RPM. My distro (Slackware) doesn't
know rpms. Emmanuel Seyman seyman[at]wanadoo.fr, sent me a specfile
which can be used to generate an rpm, using the command:

	rpmbuild -tb cbrpager-x.y.z.tar.gz

where x.y.z is, of course, the right version. Though I offered to add
an rpm to the package, according to Emmanuel, this is not as easy as it
seems, as even rpms are not the same for each distribution.



Usage
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  It's not too difficult to use cbrPager, I guess. At least I've tried
to keep it as simple as possible.

  Though it can be used just as a GUI for reading cbr/cbz/cb7 archives,
since 0.9.8, it can also be used as a viewer for many file managers such as
Midnight Commander or Rox, because it can now receive the name of the file
to be opened as a command line parameter.

  From that version on, it is also permitted to have a mix of image
formats inside the archive (at first, cbrPager needed all of the images
to be of the same type).
