Jomic

Licence: Freeware
Version 0.9.25 | Release Date: 2007-03-18 | Download
  • Application
    o Fixed warning "Cannot obtain unrar version" for unrar 3.6. Unlike earlier versions, this one has an exit code of 7 when calling without any arguments in order to view the usage text.
    o Moved cache and settings to platform conformant folders under Windows. This only works in case Jomic is launched using jomic.bat because it requires access to environment variables. There is no non-depreacted way to do this in Java unfortunately. So far, the cache was in TEMP\jomic.* and the settings in USERPROFILE\jomic.properties, so you might want to remove them to release disk space.
    o Moved cache and settings to ~/.jomic/* under Unix. So far, the cache was in /tmp/jomic.* and the settings in ~/jomic.properties, so you might want to remove them to release disk space.
    o Changed log under Windows to be stored in TEMP\jomic-%USERNAME%.log instead of being printed in the console.
    o Changed default Unix installer group from "Jomic" to "Graphics" because this is where Kubuntu puts other comic viewers.
    o Removed jomic.bat from installations other than Windows.
    o Added JAI package to installer. While this makes it a lot easier to get Jomic working (no thanks to Sun's incomprehensible download page and confusing installer), this only includes the non-native parts of JAI. This implies that some things run slower than if you would have used Sun's installer matching your platform. (In practice there is not much of a difference except when loading TIFF images. There is a lot of bit-shifting involved in decoding a TIFF which is one of the few areas where Java is lacking compared to C/C++.)
    o Added mouse navigation to full screen mode [Patch 1667595, contributed by fursten].
    o Added check box to "Open comic" dialog to adjust file extension in case it is wrong or does not describe a comic archive. For example, hugo.zip will be renamed to hugo.cbz, and a ZIP archive improperly names hugo.cbr will be renamed to hugo.cbz [Feature request 1214663].
    o Added anti-aliasing to busy/broken substitute images.
    o Updated IzPack to version 3.90. Although there were never any complains, this among other things fixes a possible installer crash with Java 5.0. It also adds a couple of improvements to the desktop shortcuts and localization.
    * Documentation
    o Improved section on Web Start. In particluar there's now mention of offline capabilities, command line start and a screenshot of the Web Start application manager/cache viewer.
    * Development
    o Changed DocBook integration to use archives for docbook-xml and docbook-xsl instead of the actual source trees as part of the repository. This is useful because:
    + Speed: "svn status" is much faster now because a huge amount of files is not part of the repository anymore.
    + Size: the repository got a little smaller.
    + Easier update: in case of new releases, only the archives and the build.xml have to be adjusted. Before this implied messing with the source tree.
    + Subversion Id's in docbook files maintain their proper value.

In order for this to work, you have to call ant setup once. This extractes the related archives and makes the required files available to build the documentation.

Version 0.9.21 | Release Date: not specified | Download
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