Description

CuteMangaView is a cross platform manga (Japanese comics, for those uninitiated), comic, and image viewing application written in C++ with Qt libraries. It aims to make the manga viewing experience as easy as possible while providing advanced features such as large thumbnails, archive support, and integrated manga translation. CuteMangaView is currently under active development as many of these features are yet to be realised. See the project page for more information.

Current Features

The features listed here are included in the latest stable (the term "stable" is relative in this context) release of CuteMangaView, downloadable here.

• Bookmarks:
  Stores a bookmark in each manga, allowing one to quickly return to the last page viewed.
  
• Thumbnails:
  Caches thumbnails of the pages in order to facilitate quick and easy navigation. Currently supports thumbnail sizes of 128x128 or 256x256.
  
• Fullscreen mode:
  View manga in fullscreen mode to maximize screen utilization.
  
• Many image formats:
  Supports all of the image formats that Qt supports, including .png, .jpg, .gif, and more.
  
• Cross platform:
  Uses Qt which allows it to support Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X simutaniously.
  

Prospective Features

The features listed here are either under development or planned for future releases of CuteMangaView.

• Zooming:
  The ability to zoom in or out as far as one desires, including options to fit to page, fit to page height, or fit to page width. Quality of the image interpolation might vary depending on the platform.
  
• Two page mode:
  View two pages side by side at the same time, emulating manga in book form.
  
• Continuous mode:
  Have all the pages within the same view navigatable with a huge vertical scroll bar. This is similar to how many PDF viewers work.
  
• OpenGL acceleration:
  Hardware acceleration of the view using OpenGL. This drastically improves the performance of things like scrolling and scaling, but once again the quality and performance depends on the platform.
  
• Archive support:
  Support for manga stored in archive file formats such as .rar, .cbr, .zip, .cbz, and possibly more.
  
• GUI translations:
  Translations of the GUI to languages other than English, most likely Japanese first. (contact me if you're fluent in another language and interested in translating)
  
• Integrated translation interface:
  An interface that allows manga to be translated to other languages from within the viewer, rather than from a seperate image editor such as Photoshop. The translation editor will use Qt's vector facilities for drawing and will have an export function for generating new raster images.
  

How to get

The latest stable packages can be downloaded from here while the development version can be downloaded by following the Subversion instructions here.

How to build/install

Please follow the instructions included with the packages/source code.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions from users of CuteMangaView. (none so far)

License

CuteMangaView is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

CuteMangaView is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Contact

Comments and general discussion should be posted on the forums, bug reports and feature requests should go on the tracker, and if you need to contact me directly, feel free to email me at auntieNeo@gmail.com.