ACBF Viewer

ACBF Viewer is an open source, simple viewer for Advanced Comic Book Format (ACBF) files.

ACBF Viewer is written in Python. The ACBF format is used in the distribution of digital comic books. Find out more about it by clicking its home page below.

System requirements

• Python

What is new in this release:

• added support for letter, audio and thought text-area types
• other minor fixes

What is new in version 1.0:

• Added support for keywords and references from ACBF specs
• Added possibility to create quickly accessible custom library filters
• Added progress bar when file is being loaded
• Progress bar showing position in the comic book works on frame level as well
• Several minor fixes

What is new in version 0.99:

• added support for ACV comics (special thanks to Tomasz Stachewicz and Daniel Janus to make this happen)
• frames can be defined on coverpage as well (will be in 1.1 format specs)
• added fade in effect when viewing comic pages (it's turned off by default because it's pretty slow, can be turned on in preferences)
• added scrolling effect for viewing on "fit width" zoom level
• in metadata dialog tech info tab has been added (shows filename, path, file size and number of pages)
• some other minor fixes

What is new in version 0.98:

• added support for webcomics (image URLs in ACBF files)
• improved library filter dialog (added button to clear the filter, hitting enter key will close it and aply the filter)
• added option to setup default library sort order in preferences
• added support for reading metadata from ComicInfo.xml
• license changed to GNU/GPL version 3 only
• some other minor fixes (history cleanup, new instance of ACBF Viewer running will not interfere with temp directories of another one ...)

What is new in version 0.97:

• added compact view for Comic Book Library (can be set in preferences)
• added "hidden" option to set ACBF Viewer's temporary directory (check ACBF Wiki for more details: http://acbf.wikia.com/wiki/ACBF_Viewer)
• added autorotate option (automatically rotates image to best fit available window area)
• stretch image option works for fit width zoom level also
• improved remove book and rate book dialogs
• preferences does not reset anymore when you install/use newer version
• some minor fixes (library sort order, zooming, scrolling, list of publish dates in filter dialog ...)

What is new in version 0.96:

• comic books in library can be rated (1 to 5 stars)
• comicbook library was extended with publisher and publish date as well
• added open/rate/remove comic book buttons for books in library
• added setting for default language layer (will automatically open a comic book with selected language layer if available)
• couple of fixes (backslash in path, sort order of fonts ...)

What is new in version 0.95:

• added image enhancement options (brightness, contrast, sharpness and saturation)
• added setup for default font used inside tag
• added setup for progress bar (width and color)
• some fixes (pagecount in library after new book is loaded, escape characters in metadata ...)

What is new in version 0.91:

• support for , , and tags
• texts inside text-area are now centered by default (left alignment can be done with using tag for now, text-alignnment attribute on text-area element is planned for next version of specifications)
• performance improvements to text-layer drawing algorithm
• fixes for library sorting and navigation
• fixed image stretch
• tag was included to Craphound sample comic book, newest version of viewer is required for viewing it correctly

Requirements:

• Python