MangaPoint 1.1.1

Fixes

• Exporting to a reader that opens only EPUB (the Kindles) now makes an EPUB. Before, a series added after the reader was chosen could still be written as an XTC file, which a Kindle cannot open.

Changes under the hood

• split the largest source files into one file per topic

Build

• update png to 0.18 and stop Dependabot opening pull requests
• update every dependency and group the Dependabot updates

MangaPoint 1.1.0

What's new

• MangaPoint now tells you when there is a new version, on every system. It checks once a day and shows what's new. It downloads and checks the update for you. Windows installs it and restarts; on macOS and Linux it hands you the file or the command to finish.
• Choose Portrait or Landscape for every export, with a Landscape mode that picks Fit for double-page spreads.
• Zoom past Fit. Cut a page into pieces or crop to the centre, and drag a handle on the page to set the zoom.
• Export as CBZ, a comic archive carrying the series, the author and the chapters, for readers and apps that open comics.
• Pick a range of chapters with the new range bar beside "Every chapter".

Export screen

• A page's source now always shows the original picture, next to every page it makes. A normal page is shown at the reader's page height.
• The pages redraw while you drag the zoom handle.
• Optional guide arrows on pages that carry on to the next one. They are small and sit near the page edge.
• The Edit controls are folded into four groups. Any number can be open, they start closed, and they stay as you leave them.
• The screen says when your reader is found over USB, and notices when it is unplugged.
• "Last export" says "edited" when you have changed settings since your last export. Only a real export clears it.

Fixes

• Clicking a zoom handle no longer jumps the zoom to 25%.
• Taking the last series out of an export brings back the sample pages.

Updating

MangaPoint 1.1.0 and later find updates on their own: Settings → About → Check for updates.
Versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 cannot, so if you are on one of them, update once by hand. It takes a
minute on every system: how to update by hand.
Your library, settings and engine are kept.

Full changes: #24 · #25 · #27 · #28

MangaPoint 1.0.1

Build

• A Windows installer (MangaPoint-…-windows-x86_64-setup.exe): it installs for the current user without asking for administrator rights, adds a Start menu entry and an entry in Apps → Installed apps, and leaves your library and settings alone when uninstalled. The program on its own is still there as …-portable.exe.
• An .rpm for Fedora, openSUSE and RHEL.
• The .deb names exactly the libraries it needs.
• A merge to main no longer builds every package twice.

MangaPoint 1.0.0

The first release.

Features

• Search many sources at once; results for the same series are grouped and the best source is chosen from its chapter list. Covers, descriptions and details come from whichever source answers first.
• Download chapters through a queue with pause, resume, retry and reordering, with a library of what you have.
• Convert pages for the reader's own screen: automatic and manual crop, double-page spreads, long strips cut into slices, contrast and dithering, with a live preview and presets.
• Export as XTC, XTCH or a fixed-layout EPUB 3 (chapters as the table of contents, reading direction, cover), to a folder, a USB drive or SD card, or over Wi-Fi.
• A catalog of 29 readers (Xteink, Amazon, Kobo, Boox, PocketBook, reMarkable) with their sizes, densities and file formats; add your own. Each reader has its own folder, export method, firmware and formats, and the Export screen only offers the formats the reader opens.
• A first-run setup (engine, sources, reader), notifications when a download or an export finishes, keyboard shortcuts, and settings that warn before unsaved changes are lost.

Performance

• Covers are served on demand from a small disk cache instead of being held in memory, and the chapter table draws only the rows in view, so long series stay light.
• Search shows its results as soon as every source has answered.
• Exports run on their own threads, and the screens no longer redraw for every downloaded page.

Build

• Continuous integration on Windows, Linux and macOS, and automatic packaging and publishing of releases.