ComicView

Project: ComicView (working title)
Version: n/a
Platform: Mac OS X 10.5 10.6 (32/64 bit universal)
Status: Design – Prototyping
Download: (coming soon)
Price: Free / $5 (cheap, so buy it)
License: Freeware / Commercial
Screenshots: (coming soon)

Description:
A comic book viewer specifically targeted to the MacBook user.

Features:
Native OS X application so it is FAST! No slow-poke Java here.

Supports all major image formats (if OS X understands it then you can view it)

Rotates display depending on the orientation of the MacBook or iPhone.

Reads all major compression formats, PDFs, and folders

• Reads CBR, CBZ, 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR, and Z
• Supports encrypted, password protected files†

Book browser

• Bookshelf like interface (think iBooks)
• Fast sorting and searching by information added in library mode (requires information to be added in pay version but can be used in free version)

Library features†

• Add information like author, category, rating, etc.
• Data is stored with books so can be used by others if you share your books with them
• Data can be shared with a central server so books are automatically recognized and information is updated

Displays pages intelligently

• Wide pages are shown in their entirety then when you press Next Page it zooms in and scrolls left to right (or right to left in Manga mode)
• Shows two pages at a time automatically if you’re using a wide screen but can be put in single page mode

Touch pad gestures

• Scroll up/down, left right easily
• Next page, last page
• Zoom in, zoom out

Remembers what you were doing

• If you’re in the middle of a book it opens the book there but if you were on the last page it opens from the beginning
• If you were viewing the book in single page mode but the default is two page it opens it in single page mode.

Editing features†

• Allows you to mark pages as “do not view” so if you skip ad pages if you want
• Pages can be deleted if they are deemed pointless (like scanner tags)
• Deleted and skipped pages are “fingerprinted” so they are automatically deleted or skipped in other books too

Automation features†

• Previously deleted pages are deleted in new books
• Previously skipped pages are skipped in new books
• Files and file names are standardized
• Extraneous garbage is removed from image file names and books file names
• Books, folders, and files are converted to standard, open format (cbz since RAR is propriety and not a friendly license for indie developers)

Automatic updates via the Internet
Free updates for a year (cheap subscription afterwards)†

† Commercial only feature