BDReader

BDReader is intended to be a comfortable comics reader. As a main feature, BDReader includes an auto panels detection on comics pages. It allows you to display the panels (or squares) of a comic page individually, in the reading order. It also offers a Preview page option, allowing you to preview each page before reading into details the different panels of the page.

If you like reading comics on your computer and are fed up with zooming and dezooming all time to have the right reading size, give it a try !

Screenshots are taken from L'invasion invisible by Thomas Grascoeur and Joyce Bibring available (as other good comics !) on BDZMag.

Features

• Supports PDF files, CBR, CBZ, CBT, CBZ (comics archives), RAR, ZIP, TAR, 7Z (images archives) and image folders
• Strip/continuous reading
• Individual panel(square) reading
• Auto panels detection
• Page preview (preview of the full page before showing the first panel of a page)
• Thumbnails view of the current, previous and next page (full page view while reading individual panels/strips)
• Fullscreen mode
• Export function available to take advantage of the panel detection and use any other reader to read the output (including on your smartphone)
• The most comfortable comics reading
• No more zooming/de-zooming needed
• Windows and Linux

Don't hesitate to have a look to the TODO section for future features and ask for others in the Forum.

Page mode

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Panel mode(In context)

Panel/Fullscreen

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Panel(In context)/Fullscreen/Thumbnails

Screenshots from L'invasion invisible by Thomas Grascoeur and Joyce Bibring (BDZMag).

Installation

Windows (32bits and 64bits)
- Simply download BDReader_setup.exe and double-click it
- Follow the prompts
- Open a comic file (PDF, CBR, CBZ, RAR, ...)

Linux (and others)
- For Ubuntu users a ppa (Launchpad) is available here. Versions for Trusty, Utopic and Vivid.
- You can also, build from sources: download the latest code release bdreader-x.x.tar.gz, and use the classic:
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install
to compile and install.
- Or download and install the deb package bdreader_x.x_amd64.deb.

Note that BDReader is using several third-party libraries (and thus depends on them):
-opencv >=2.3
-fltk >=1.3
-mupdf >=1.2
-libarchive >=3.0
You will thus need to have these libraries installed (most distributions have packages for them).

Versions

• v1.04
  -Border transparency when In Context
  -Pages rotation option (+90,-90,180)
  -Several bugs fixed (InContext switching, 'random' crashing, fallback to STRIP mode, global zoom preferences...)
  -Icon displayed in Windows version
  -PDF files now loaded at 300dpi

• v1.03
  -New viewing/navgation: option to show panel in context, zoom options
  -Added a maximal zoom option to avoid to large zooming
  -Menus redesign
  -Display page number on fullscreen
  -Increase number of recent documents stored
  -Minimal command line options: help and version
  -Added CHANGES and README files in package

• v1.02
  -Panel detection improved
  -Faster detection and navigation
  -Management of image folders: a folder of images (at least two) can now be open as a comic
  -Export function: any open comics can be exported as a series of images (one image per page or one image per panel): allow to use another reader while taking advantage of the panel detection, conversion from pdf to cbr...
  -Thumbnails view now displays previous and next pages (as well as current)
  -Navigation through the thumbnail view (mouse wheel: previous/next page and click on previous/next pages)
  -Strip/continuous navigation and view improved
  -Status bar clearly display reading mode
  -New (fancy !) Help window
  -Linux version: rename binary to bdreader (previously BDReader) to comply with GNU policy and creation of a man page
  -Some bug corrections

• v1.01
  -Now open images archives (RAR, ZIP, TAR CB7 and 7Z files)
  -Strip mode view optimized to the window/screen size
  -Improvement of panels detection (can be slower on some comics)
  -Thumbnails bug correction
  -A few more navigation options (Go to page, first page, last page)
  -Better preferences management (window size and position, comic current page and individual view preferences for each document)

• v0.99
  -Support for comics archives: CBR and CBZ files

• v0.98
  -Package reorganization
  -Deb packaging

• v0.97
  -Move to autotools instead of static Makefile to allow the classic: ./configure make make install

• v0.95
  -Improvement of panels detection
  -Thumbnails of the current page

• v0.9:
  -Improvement of Recent documents and folders management
  -Drag n' drop of files and "Open with" features added
  -Maximal zoom for panel view (avoid too important zooming on small panels)
  -Navigation buttons added

• v0.8:
  First release

Todo

• Improve export/save function (to CBR, CBZ and PDF)
• Manga mode
• EPUB comics
• Get and display comics metadata

FAQ

[FAQ]

Third-party libraries

[Third-party]

License

[License]

Contact

kennyyy AT users.sf.net