Comic Sol v2.0.0rc3

Comic Sol v2.0.0rc3

v2.0.0rc3 is a focused Comic Quality prerelease that preserves detailed composed pages during PDF export.

Fixed

• PDF page rasters are encoded at JPEG quality 95 before deterministic publication.
• Detailed, high-frequency comic artwork now remains within the existing full-content fidelity ceiling without relaxing any verification threshold.
• A deterministic high-frequency regression fixture protects the behavior.

The issue was found during a live Codex App dogfood run. The same page measured a mean absolute channel error of 3.87 with the previous encoder default and 2.24 with the RC3 setting, below the unchanged 3.1 ceiling. The completed two-page output passed final validation with no warnings.

Quality and compatibility

RC3 retains every RC2 Comic Quality guarantee: deterministic panel normalization,
typography preflight, the immutable four-grid layout, artifact-bound page QA,
full-content PDF verification, and the deterministic quality matrix. Matrix evidence
proves mechanics only and is not a substitute for visual review.

• The exact 17-tool MCP surface is unchanged.
• Quality schema and project formats are unchanged.
• Full-page verification thresholds remain 3.1 / 0.021 / 16.0.
• RC2 projects remain readable; no migration is required.

Distribution

The prerelease includes:

• Linux, macOS, and Windows x86_64 portable archives
• Python wheel and source archive
• transactional POSIX and PowerShell installers
• SHA-256 checksums
• CycloneDX SBOMs
• non-root OCI build definition

Native archives and installers remain unsigned. Verify every downloaded artifact against SHA256SUMS before use.