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{{Short description|Comic book archive}}
{{anchor|cdisplay3x}}{{About-distinguish2|the x86 comics viewer |the similarly named x64 comics viewer CDisplay Ex}}
{{Infobox software
| logo = Icon CDisplay by Rohan Shewale.png
| logo caption = The application icon
| name = CDisplay
| developer = David Ayton
| discontinued = yes
| latest_release_version = 1.8.1
| latest_release_date = {{Start date and age|2004|04}}
| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows]]
| genre = [[Image viewer]]
| license = [[Freeware]]
| website =
}}

'''CDisplay''' is a [[freeware]] [[comic book archive]] viewer and sequential [[image viewer]] utility for [[Microsoft Windows]] used to view images one at a time in the style of a [[comic book]]. It popularized the [[comic book archive]] file format. CDisplay was written to easily view [[JPEG]], [[Portable Network Graphics|PNG]] and static [[GIF]] format images sequentially. The program was designed to be less general purpose than existing image viewer programs, and more convenient for simply viewing images sequentially.

==Features==
* Loads JPEG, PNG, and static GIF images which are automatically ordered alphabetically and presented for viewing one at a time or two at a time.
* The images may be viewed from a folder or collected in a [[ZIP (file format)|.zip]], [[.rar]], [[ACE (compression file format)|.ace]], or [[.tar]] archive file.
* Page through the images sequentially and scroll around pages with single key presses.
* Many automatic page sizing options including choices to display one or two pages at one time. Image resizing uses [[Lanczos resampling]] for the best picture quality.
* No [[Bloatware|bloat]] caused by non-essential general purpose image processing features.
* Users can view the pictures as full screen (with or without mouse pointer) or in a window.

==Files==
CDisplay supports [[Comic Book Archive file]]s, archives of individual page images with the extension ''.cbr'', ''.cbz'', ''.cbt'', or ''.cba''; they are simply renamed [[RAR (file format)|RAR]], [[ZIP (file format)|ZIP]], [[tar (file format)|TAR]], or [[ACE (compression file format)|ACE]] archive files. The standard icon for all comic file types extension is a comic balloon. The format was made popular by CDisplay but is now used by many other programs designed for reading comics.

CDisplay supports the display of JPEG, PNG, GIF, [[BMP file format|BMP]], [[Text file|TXT]], and also [[Simple file verification|SFV]] files which confirm that the file is not corrupt, either directly or contained within archive files.

* If a [[.txt]] file is within a folder or comic book archive file, it displays the comic's contents on file opening.
* If a [[simple file verification|.sfv]] file is within a folder or comic book archive file, it verifies the SFV data to confirm that the rest of the content is not corrupted.
* Automatic colour balance and yellow reduction if desired.

== Development ==

The program was compiled using [[Borland C++ Builder]] 5.0<ref>*{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay.html |title=CDisplay - original site |accessdate=2007-10-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011003226/http://www.geocities.com/davidayton/CDisplay.html |archivedate=2007-10-11 }} </ref> and runs on 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows platforms from [[Windows 98]] onwards.

The source code was not made available, and the program ceased to be maintained when the author died in 2003.<ref name="fivebest">{{cite news |title=Five Best Desktop Comic Book Readers |url=http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2011/11/five-best-desktop-comic-book-readers/ |first=Alan |last=Henry |date=November 14, 2011 |agency=[[Lifehacker]] |accessdate=2014-01-20}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Comparison of image viewers]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Image viewers]]
[[Category:Windows-only freeware]]
[[Category:2003 software]]
[[Category:Discontinued software]]

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imported>MrOllie at 12:56, 1 November 2024