Comic Seer (Desktop) is a

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sequential

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application for Microsoft Windows and

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used for viewing and reading

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files containing image formats, such as JPEG, PNG, and

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. Comic Seer is focused on the management of large

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libraries, while still being a full featured comic book viewer and reader.

Features

Comic Seer's foundation is built upon CBR, CBZ, and image file viewing. This is expanded upon by an array of features supporting this, including: * Single and dual image viewing, with automatic double-width image detection * Zooming of images from 1-4X * Browsing of images in a

as thumbnails * Full-screen viewing * Bookmarking capability * Magnification of image areas * Image rotation with memory * Library organization and searching, and efficient handling of large libraries * Comic meta-data viewing * View multiple

files at one time

History and status

Comic Seer is an open-source application that was originally released in June 2012 with initial version 0.8-beta. It is currently used more than 1000 people daily. The latest version is 2.51-3.Comic Seer Official Site
/ref> It is built on the LGPL licensed framework, Qt, for cross-platform development.

Windows App

In 2014 Comic Seer for Windows RT, 8.1, and 10 desktops and tablets was released for purchase in the

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Its features include: * Reads CBR, CBZ, CB7 comic file archives and image files * Supports all interface devices: mouse, keyboard, pen, touch * Page memory * Page rotation * 1 & 2 page viewing (with auto-detect of wide pages) * 1x-4x zoom * Library browsing and visualization * Library filtering * Build your own CBZ files * View and edit embedded comic information * Bookmarking * Comic Vine integration for finding comic information * User selectable backgrounds * Read progress indicators and filtering * Primary and secondary live tiles * Color correction

Operating systems

* Microsoft Windows: XP, Vista, 7, 8, 2003, 2008, 2012 *

: tested on

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12.04+

References

External links

* Image viewers 2012 software 2013 software 2014 software Linux image viewers Proprietary freeware for Linux Windows graphics-related software Graphics software that uses Qt {{comics-stub