Extension:CBxHandler

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CBxHandler
Release status: unmaintained
Implementation Media
Description A paginated viewer for Comic Book Archive files
Author(s) Maysara Abdulhaq (uwe_atalk)
MediaWiki 1.25+
PHP 5.4+
Database changes No
License GNU General Public License 3.0 or later
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The CBx extension generates previews and thumbnails for uploaded Comic Book Archive files of the types cbz and cbt, and shows a paginated preview layout in file-pages. It makes Comic Book Archives behave like PDF and multi-page TIFF files as handled by extension:PDFHandler and Extension:PagedTiffHandler respectively.

Comic Book Archive files are a de facto standard utilizing common file archive formats files, sometimes augmented with metadata, and having custom extensions of cbx where x denotes the archive format.

Pre-requisites

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This extension requires the following packages to be installed first:

Package Description Link
libfile-mimeinfo-perl
imagemagick dynamic resizing and thumbnailing of images http://www.imagemagick.org/script/install-source.php for instructions on how to install
cbx-info and cbx-extract Extract metadata from CBx archives https://github.com/arabdigitalexpression/cbx-utils linux sh binaries, also requires unrar

Installation

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  Note: The required software above must be installed first.

Usage

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  • A user can display CBx files as an image, showing a single page at a time, like so: [[File:myCbxFile.cbz|page=1|600px]]. The page and size parameters are optional; the default page is page #1. Instead of a size-parameter, you can also use the thumb-parameter, with or without captions: [[File:myCbxFile.cbz|page=1|thumb|My CBZ]].
  • Because CbxHandler extends ImageHandler, you can use all the arguments that you would for an Image -- for example: thumb, right/left, caption, border, link, etc.
If you would like to present a 2-page cbz, for example, do the following: [[File:myCbxFile.cbz|page=1]] [[File:myCbxFile.cbz|page=2]]
  • The main usage of the CBxHandler extension is without user interaction. If you upload a new cbx file, the metadata will be stored in the database, and then this file can be shown in a multipage preview layout like the djvu handler does. Without this extension, cbx will not display properly when uploaded.

Configuration

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Variables below are not specific to this extension

Debugging

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Please report bugs in the bug tracker at Github.

Notes

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This extension was developed for Wiki Gender, sponsored by Goethe-Institut Ägypten and by technical expertise from ADEF

See also

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