GL Manga Reader is an open source and free software which allows you to read manga and comics on your computer. It is designed to be easy to use. It is written in C++ and based on the OpenGL and QT librairies.

GL Manga Reader is a portable application :
- you do not have to install it
- you can use it from an USB drive on any windows computer

Recomanded configuration to use the hardware acceleration :
- A graphic card (or an APU) whith 256MB

However, it will works even if you don't have a graphic card. In this case, it will use software rendering.

Features

  • Display one page, two page or continuous display
  • Right to left and left to right page layout
  • Portrait and landscape layout
  • Remember the previous session
  • Fullscreen mode (get rid of the toolbar)
  • Many keyboard shortcuts
  • High quality zoom
  • Open files and directories (recursively) by drag and drop
  • Clever file sort
  • UTF-8 file name support (ex: japanese characters)
  • Full documentation (english)
  • GL Manga Reader is a portable application
  • Supported images types : bmp, gif, ico, jpeg, jpg, mng, pbm, pgm, png, ppm, svg, svgz, tga, tif, tiff, xbm, xpm
  • Supported archives types : zip, rar, cbz, cbr, jar
  • LRU cache (Least Recently Used)

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License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Windows

Languages

English, French

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

OpenGL, Qt

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Image Viewers, C++ Manga Readers

Registered

2012-09-06