CDisplay is a
freeware comic book archive viewer and sequential
image viewer utility for
Microsoft Windows
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used to view images one at a time in the style of a
comic book. It popularized the
comic book archive file format. CDisplay was written to easily view
JPEG
JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...
,
PNG and static
GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. ...
format images sequentially. The program was designed to be less general purpose than existing image viewer programs, and more convenient for simply viewing images sequentially.
Features
* Loads JPEG, PNG, and static GIF images which are automatically ordered alphabetically and presented for viewing one at a time or two at a time.
* The images may be viewed from a folder or collected in a
.zip
ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is th ...
,
.rar
RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error correction and file spanning. It was developed in 1993 by Russian software engineer Eugene Roshal and the software is licensed by ''win.rar GmbH''. The name ''RA ...
,
.ace, or
.tar
In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed ...
archive file.
* Page through the images sequentially and scroll around pages with single key presses.
* Many automatic page sizing options including choices to display one or two pages at one time. Image resizing uses
Lanczos resampling for the best picture quality.
* No
bloat caused by non-essential general purpose image processing features.
* Users can view the pictures as full screen (with or without mouse pointer) or in a window.
Files
CDisplay supports
Comic Book Archive files, archives of individual page images with the extension ''.cbr'', ''.cbz'', ''.cbt'', or ''.cba''; they are simply renamed
RAR RAR or Rar may refer to:
* Radio acoustic ranging, a non-visual technique for determining a ship's position at sea
* "rar", the ISO 639-2 code for the Cook Islands Māori language
* RAR (file format), a proprietary compressed archive file format in ...
,
ZIP
Zip, Zips or ZIP may refer to:
Common uses
* ZIP Code, USPS postal code
* Zipper or zip, clothing fastener
Science and technology Computing
* ZIP (file format), a compressed archive file format
** zip, a command-line program from Info-ZIP
* Zi ...
,
TAR, or
ACE archive files. The standard icon for all comic file types extension is a comic balloon. The format was made popular by CDisplay but is now used by many other programs designed for reading comics.
CDisplay supports the display of JPEG, PNG, GIF,
BMP,
TXT, and also
SFV files which confirm that the file is not corrupt, either directly or contained within archive files.
* If a
.txt
A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flatfile) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists stored as data within a computer file system. In operat ...
file is within a folder or comic book archive file, it displays the comic's contents on file opening.
* If a
.sfv
Simple file verification (SFV) is a file format for storing CRC32 checksums of files to verify the integrity of files. SFV is used to verify that a file has not been corrupted, but it does not otherwise verify the file's authenticity. The fil ...
file is within a folder or comic book archive file, it verifies the SFV data to confirm that the rest of the content is not corrupted.
* Automatic colour balance and yellow reduction if desired.
Development
The program was compiled using
Borland C++ Builder 5.0
[* ] and runs on 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows platforms from
Windows 98 onwards.
The source code was not made available, and the program ceased to be maintained when the author died in 2003.
See also
*
Comparison of image viewers
References
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External links
CDisplay semi-official website
Image viewers
Windows-only freeware
2003 software