Thread: iLiad Comix
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Old 03-07-2007, 10:18 PM   #1
chamcham
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Comix

Has anyone tried getting this to work on the iLiad?
http://comix.sourceforge.net

I'm surprised that no one has tried this yet.

It's probably the best comic viewer on any platform. It's even has a built in "manga mode". One of the great features is that it has "smart scrolling". With smart scrolling turned on the page scrolls to the next portion of the page. The only button you have to hit is spacebar.

So for example. I display manga at full quality(i.e. not fit to screen) and the smart scrolling go through in the order that you'd read the manga. This allows you to see the images at full-quality(press "A" for full-quality) and not worrying about not seeing a portion of the page.

For those hard-to-read words(especially furigana for Kanji), it even has a magnifying glass(press "Z" and move your mouse around).

It's built on Python and is pretty much Linux-only.
In fact, I installed Ubuntu on my laptop JUST so that I can run this program.

Oh, and it doesn't support PDF. But if you read comics and manga, JPG/PNG/etc is good enough. Also, it can read images directly from zip files so you don't even need to uncompress them.

I'd love to hear someone test this out and put up some screenshots.
I wouldn't hesitate to get an iLiad if someone could get this to work.

Last edited by chamcham; 03-07-2007 at 10:22 PM.
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