- About this Repo -

This is a copy of the MComix 1.2.1 Code available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/mcomix/.
It was modified so the Comicrack metadata will be recognized, and used. It is unfortunately 
impossible to alter the metadata this way, you may use comictagger https://code.google.com/archive/p/comictagger/downloads.
When scanning, certain metadata tags (not all available because there are too many, 
create an issue if there is one missing you need). 
The search function of the library now also searches these additional fields, so you may search for characters, tags, etc.
Also, when you have bookmarks for your comics (for example different chapters, but also marks like Table of Contents), 
they will be automatically shown as a bookmark when opening the book. 
Lastly the additional metadata is shown in the details box in the library view.

There is no performance difference, no additional dependencies and it takes about 5 KB more than the original installation.

All of this has two trade-offs:
1. This significantly modifies the database. You have to delete it (in linux: rm ~/.local/share/mcomix/library.db).
2. The current loading of the bookmarks destroys all manual bookmarks taken. It is not possible to store new ones, 
they get destroyed once a new book is loaded
This process is not impossible to fix, but rather difficult. Please open an issue if you are interested in restoring the feature.



- MComix README -

=== About =====================================================================

  MComix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically
  designed to handle comic books (both Western comics and manga) and supports a
  variety of container formats (including CBR, CBZ, CB7, CBT, LHA and PDF).
  MComix is a fork of Comix. It is written in Python and uses GTK+ through the
  PyGTK bindings.

=== Installation ==============================================================


  Run "python2 setup.py install" as root. This will install MComix in the
  site-packages folder of Python. An executable "mcomix" will be placed in
  /usr/bin.

  In order to install MComix in another base directory, use the --prefix option.
  The option --user explicitly installs MComix in the user's home directory,
  which does not need root access.

  Example:

      # python2 setup.py --prefix /usr install

  As an example of how to install MComix from the downloaded tar.gz file, run
  as the root user (via su or sudo):

      # tar -xzf mcomix-x.y.tar.gz
      # cd mcomix-x.y
      # python2 setup.py install

  If you don't want to install MComix in some system directory, you can just
  execute the file mcomixstarter.py in the unpacked MComix directory to
  run the program. You could also create a symlink somewhere in your PATH
  pointing to this file.

  Note:

  The above example will not install icons, desktop integration, the
  man page, or other optional files normally placed into /usr/share. To do so,
  setup.py must be called with a additonal options:

      # python2 setup.py install --single-version-externally-managed \
	                            --prefix /usr --root / --record mcomix-files.txt

  This sort of installation is only recommended for advanced users, as no
  simple uninstall procedure exists of yet. All files belonging to MComix will
  be written into mcomix-files.txt, and must be removed manually when MComix
  is to be uninstalled.

=== Dependencies ==============================================================

  MComix needs Python 2.5, Setuptools 0.6, PyGTK 2.12 and Pillow (Python
  Imaging Library Fork) 2.2.1 or newer to function.

  To use the library you need pysqlite (which is usually included in the
  standard library for Python 2.5 and later).

  You also need either the "unrar" or the "rar" program installed if you wish
  to read RAR (.cbr) archives.

  Alternatively, MComix can use libunrar from Rarlab. Place libunrar.so (or
  unrar.dll on Win32) either in the system's standard library path (/usr/lib
  or C:\Windows\system32), or directly in MComix' root directory when run
  without having first installed MComix.

  To read 7Zip archives, you need to have the "7z" program installed. Likewise,
  "lha" is needed to open LHA/LZA archives. Note that "7z" can be used as
  substitute for both "unrar" and "lha", but extraction of Unicode filenames
  on Windows will be broken in that case.

  To read PDF files, MComix can use the tools provided by MuPDF, namely
  mutool and mudraw.

=== Credits ===================================================================

  Thanks to everyone who have contributed translations, suggestions, bug
  reports, fixes and donations!

  Icons with a filename starting with "gimp" are taken from The GIMP, and
  icons with a filename starting with "tango" are taken from the Tango Desktop
  Project. Most other icons are made by Victor Castillejo, creator of the
  GNOME-Colors icon theme.

=== Contact ===================================================================

  Lead Developer: Louis Casillas <[email protected]>
  https://sourceforge.net/p/mcomix/wiki/

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