C.B.R. : Comic Book Reader

Project Description

Comic Book Reader aka C.B.R allow to read CBZ/ZIP and CBR/RAR books and comics with WPF Engine in the line of the well known CDisplay.

Background

Why this project? There are so many e-book readers already available… but none of them suited my requirements. They unzip pages on the disk, or hang between pages, or do not manage the library, etc…

I decided to use this project to experiment more on WPF, and its graphic capacity fit the needs and help fulfill the missing functions. It's more an experiment than anything else; the solution is clean but not perfect.

Functions

• Manage the book library, by parsing a specified folder, displaying the cover pages.
• Reading a book, placing the bookmark on a current page, and restoring it.
• Saving all for further reading.
• Being quick because of zipped content access, implement image cache management.
• PDF to ZIP conversion (due to "bug" in pdf image, search a way to "read" pdf)

Version 3.1

• New toolbar
• New protect command
• Saving is improved
• 5 star rating (not saved actually)
• ....

Commands

• From the toolbar : Open book, Full Screen, Refresh catalog, Options, Quit, About, Fit to width, Fit to height, Cache information, Page Name
• Scroll Pages : Arrows or Wheel
• Zoom : Left Ctrl + Wheel
• Move Pages : Left mouse button(in case of big zoom)
• Magnifying glass : Left Shift + Wheel (in full screen mode only)
• Read, Bookmark, Goto Bookmark, Clear Bookmark : context menu on catalog or pages

Main screen, magnifying glass

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Options dialog

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See also : http://reflectionstudio.codeplex.com/