ACBR Comic Book Reader

Devlog

• Version 3.7.0 Now Available
  October 26, 2024 by binarynonsense

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  Added a menu entry in the 'View > Layout > Show' section to show / hide the loading indicator. Added the possibility of applying some simple image operations to the pages (brightness and saturation) d... Continue reading
• Version 3.6.0 Now Available
  July 14, 2024 by binarynonsense

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  Added EPUB metadata support to the file properties window. Added an EPUB metadata editor. Added a PDF metadata editor. Added an option in the history tool to set the maximum number of recent files to... Continue reading
• Version 3.5.0 Now Available
  June 21, 2024 by binarynonsense

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  Updated some of the core libraries to newer versions. Added mouse click+drag as an input option to scroll a page. Added touch screen input support: drag to scroll a page, pinch-zoom to zoom in and out... Continue reading
• Version 3.4.0 Now Available
  March 26, 2024 by binarynonsense

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  Changelog: Updated some of the core libraries to newer versions. Added support for converting and extracting CBR files bigger than 2GB. Added support for converting, extracting and creating CBZ files... Continue reading
• Version 3.3.0 Now Available
  September 16, 2023 by binarynonsense

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  Changelog Added a quick menu that can be opened from the reader by pressing the gamepad's start button or F1 in the keyboard. Added a file browser that can be opened from the quick menu and works with... Continue reading
• Version 3.2.0 Now Available
  August 27, 2023 by binarynonsense

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  Changelog: Added an option in the preferences to enable using a third-party command-line application ( rar from WinRAR) to create and modify cbr files. Added the ability to search for and import comic... Continue reading
• Version 3.1.0 Now Available
  August 17, 2023 by binarynonsense

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  Changelog: Added a ComicInfo.xml viewer/editor that can be opened from the properties window if the file format allows it. ComicInfo.xml files inside cbr, cbz and cb7 comic books can be viewed and Com... Continue reading
• Version 3.0.0 Now Available
  August 07, 2023 by binarynonsense

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  Changelog: Redesigned the user interface and refactored the internal structure and code. Fixed cb7 files containing more than images not opening or failing at some point. Added a File>Properties entry... Continue reading

  
• Version 2.4.5 Now Available
  July 15, 2023 by binarynonsense

  Changelog: Added support for ComicInfo.xml files in the comic books converter. If the original contains a ComicBook.xml file and the output format allows it, the file is now preserved and even updated... Continue reading
• Version 2.4.0 Now Available
  September 02, 2022 by binarynonsense

  This update adds an integrated audio player to listen to music while reading and two new tools, one of them to search for audiobooks from Librivox and open them with the player. Changelog: Added an in... Continue reading

  
• Version 2.3.0 Now Available
  August 28, 2022 by binarynonsense

  This update adds support for epub ebooks and two new tools to search and view books from Project Gutenberg and webcomics from xkcd: Added support for .epub ebooks (there are now two modes to open .epu... Continue reading
• Version 2.2.0 Now Available
  August 19, 2022 by binarynonsense

  This update adds a couple new tools and some small improvements: Added a new tool to search through some of the online books in the "Internet Archive" website's collection, and open them in the system... Continue reading
• Version 2.1.0 Now Available
  August 11, 2022 by binarynonsense

  This update adds support for more formats, some new tools... Added support for cb7 files. Added support for opening image files and image folders in the reader. Added support for the avif image format... Continue reading
• Version 2.0.0 Now Available
  June 27, 2022 by binarynonsense

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  This is a major release that improves the old tools and adds a number of new ones to convert/resize images, extract pages, extract text (OCR)... fixes some bugs and updates the code to use the latest... Continue reading
• Version 1.2.6 Now Available
  May 01, 2022 by binarynonsense

  This update includes some new features and fixes: Added support for themes and a menu option (File>Preferences>Color Themes) to choose between 3 different ones (the original and dark and light new one... Continue reading
• Version 1.2.5 Now Available
  April 29, 2022 by binarynonsense

  This update includes some new features and small fixes: Added support for files containing WebP images. Added a new tool (File > Create...) to create a cbz, pdf or epub file from a list of image files... Continue reading
• Version 1.2.4 Now Available
  August 19, 2020 by binarynonsense

  Minor update to add some small fixes and improvements. When a file is opened it's added to the history right away (it was added only after closing it). Increased the length limit for the file name in... Continue reading
• Version 1.2.3 Now Available
  June 29, 2020 by binarynonsense

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  Minor update to add some small fixes and improvements. Changelog: Added a small text at the bottom of the view area showing the page number in full-screen mode, or when the toolbar is disabled (and th... Continue reading
• Version 1.2.2 Now Available
  June 27, 2020 by binarynonsense

  Another minor update to add some small fixes and improvements. Changelog: Added a sub-menu in the preferences menu to set the 'mouse click hotspots' layout (or to disable them). By default if the left... Continue reading
• Version 1.2.1 Now Available
  June 25, 2020 by binarynonsense

  Small update to add some details to improve yesterday's big one. Changelog; Added "Open Recent" menu item. Added the infrastructure to allow loading user made localization files. FIX: The list of file... Continue reading
• Version 1.2.0 Now Available
  June 24, 2020 by binarynonsense

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  With this update, ACBR is now not only a reader but a converter of comic book files too. Changelog: Added tools to: Convert/Resize files from cbr, cbz, pdf or epub to cbz, pdf or epub. Export the curr... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.1.1 Now Available
  June 05, 2020 by binarynonsense

  The language of the UI can now be changed from the menu bar (settings>languages). Languages available in this version: English Spanish... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.1.0 Now Available
  June 04, 2020 by binarynonsense#cbr, #cbz, #epub, #comic reader, #pdf, #update

  Added .epub (images only) to the compatible files. Pages can now be rotated. Page submenu (go to first, go to last and go to...) added to the main and context menus. You can now drag and drop a file i... Continue reading

  
• First Public Version Now Available
  June 02, 2020 by binarynonsense#update

  Version 1.0.0 of ACBR Comic Book Reader is now available to download. ACBR is a comic book reader for Windows and GNU/Linux capable of viewing cbz, cbr and pdf files... Continue reading