# Introduction

QComicBook is a viewer for comic book archives containing jpeg/png/xpm/gif images, which aims at convenience and simplicity. Features include:

- automatic decompression of zip (cbz), rar (cbr), ace (cba), targzipped (cbg) and tarbzip2ped (cbb) archives
- full-screen mode
- two-pages viewing
- page scaling
- mouse or keyboard navigation
- bookmarks
- thumbnails
- page caching and page preloading
- ...and more

QComicBook software requirements:

- rar/unrar (one of them), unzip, unace and tar (with gzip and bzip2 support compiled-in) available somewhere in the PATH (e.g. in /usr/bin). If one of them is missing, you won't be able to open some archives
- a lot of disk space available in /tmp directory, for handling decompression of archives

QComicBook is released under terms of GNU General Public License.