Menu
File menu provies basic operations for loading comic books:
- Open directory - open directory containg images
- Open archive - open archived images
- Recently opened - list of ten recently opened archives / directories (most
recently opened on the top)
- Info - displays information about currenly opened comic book. This includes
contents of file_id.diz *.nfo files (if any) as well as memory usage info
- Close - closes currently opened comic book
- Quit - quits QComicBook
View submenu provides some basic settings for page view.
You can select one of the following scaling modes:
- Original size - no scaling is done and original image size is preserved
- Fit width - image is scaled to fit window width
- Fit height - image is scaled to fit window height
- Whole page - image is scaled to fit window
- Best fit - depending on image dimensions, QComicBook chooses the best method
to scale image
The page can be rotated with 90 degree step, with these options:
- Rotate right - rotates image clockwise
- Rotate left - rotates image counter clockwise
- No rotation - resets rotation, restores original image
- Preserve rotation - makes rotation "permanent" for viewing next pages
Other options in this menu:
depending on you settings, menubar may be hidden in fullscreen mode, so to back to
windowed mode you need to press F11 or ESC key
- Two pages - display two pages, side by side, just like when reading normal book
- Japanese mode - scrolls to top-right corner on page change; in two pages mode additionaly swaps pages.
- Thumbnails - toggles thumbnails window
Settings in this menu are saved when quitting QComicBook (except for "fullscreen" option).
Bookmarks menu allows you to bookmark pages in comic books.
These bookmarks are however somewhat different than, for example, in any
webbrowser and are more similiar to real bookmarks. Each bookmark keeps
bookmarked page number (as well as file name), so you can easily start with
your comic book from the point, where you last stopped reading.
Two options are available in this menu:
- Set bookmark for this comicbook - creates bookmark for current
comic book; existing bookmark for this comic book is deleted
- Remove bookmark for this comicbook - removes existing bookmark
for current comic book; to remove other bookmarks, use Manage bookmarks option.
- Manage bookmarks - opens bookmark manager, where bookmarks can be
easily removed.
Below these options you can see the list of currently saved bookmarks. Just
click on one of them to go to bookmarked comic book and page.
- Scrollbars - toggles displaying of scrollbars for large pages; please note that scrollbars will be shown
only if necessary
- Toolbar - toggles displaying of toolbar
- Statusbar - toggles displaying of statusbar
- Fullscreen - toggles beetween fullscreen and windowed mode; please note, that
- Configure QComicBook - allows you to fine-tune some options
QComicBook offers some tunable options, available via Settings
menu option. These options include:
- Background color - the color of the empty area around displayed image
- Hide menubar in fullscreen mode - menubar may be hidded in fullscreen mode if desired; together with
toolbar hiding option, it may give you the whole screen for displaying page contents.
- Hide statusbar in fullscreen mode - statusbar may be hidden in fullscreen mode, giving you even more space
- Small mouse cursor - toggles small (4x4 pixels) mouse cursor for QComicBook window
- Scaling method - the algorithm used for image scaling; either Smooth or
Fast. Smooth scaling provides best quality, but is slower; it is recommened method
unless you have really slow machine.
- Info text font - font used for Info dialog.
- Cache size - the number of pages kept in memory. Value of 0 disables caching; 1 has no effect
on performance; 2 or more may improve your experience. Keep in mind, that caching may consume a lot
of memory - for example, an 1280x1984 image may take as much as 9Mb of memory!
- Preload next page - enables page preloading in the background. This setting takes effect only for
cache size of 3 and greater. It is recommended to enable this option, as it may really improve overall
experience.
- Use disk cache for thumbnails - thumbnails are saved to disk, which speeds up things when loading them
later. Set this option on if you tend to open comic books more then once.
- Number of days to keep thumbnails - defines, for how long to keep thumbnails on disk; old thumbnails are
deleted when exiting QComicBook. Value of 0 disables purging.
- Help browser - allows to choose between simple built-in browser (the default) or any other external web browser.
- Forward and backward two pages in two-pages mode
- Open info dialog after opening comic book - when enabled, info dialog is opened after opening comic
book. You may still open this dialog manually with File/Info menu option.
- Confirm exit
Note: changing cache size takes effect on new comic book.