CDisplay is a

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comic book archive A comic book archive or comic book reader file (also called sequential image file) is a type of archive file for the purpose of sequential viewing of images, commonly for comic books. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay sequential image vie ...

viewer and sequential

image viewer An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth, ...

utility for Microsoft Windows used to view images one at a time in the style of a

comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...

. It popularized the

file format. CDisplay was written to easily view JPEG, PNG and static GIF 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

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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

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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 file A comic book archive or comic book reader file (also called sequential image file) is a type of archive file for the purpose of sequential viewing of images, commonly for comic books. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay sequential image vie ...

s, archives of individual page images with the extension ''.cbr'', ''.cbz'', ''.cbt'', or ''.cba''; they are simply renamed RAR, ZIP,

TAR Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. "a dark brown or black bi ...

, or

ACE An ace is a playing card, die or domino with a single pip. In the standard French deck, an ace has a single suit symbol (a heart, diamond, spade, or club) located in the middle of the card, sometimes large and decorated, especially in the c ...

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 Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems. The second operating system in the 9x line, it is the successor to Windows 95, and was released to ...

onwards. The source code was not made available, and the program ceased to be maintained when the author died in 2003.

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External links

CDisplay
semi-official website Image viewers Windows-only freeware 2003 software

Features

Files

Development

See also

References

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