comicthumb(1)

📦 version 1.2.1mcomix3+git20200206, in fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu jammy

💖 comicthumb — bestie's guide to comic thumbnails 💖

okay so real talk, this is the comicthumb page from section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and it's literally the cutest little utility ever. it makes thumbnails. for comics. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

comicthumb — a thumbnailer for cbz, cbr and cbt archives. no cap, that's what it does. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

comicthumb FILE THUMBNAIL [SIZE]

three little slots, one tiny command, endless aesthetic. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea: comicthumb creates thumbnails for x-cbz, x-cbr and x-cbt files. that's the mime types, bestie, and it handles all three. 🌈

and the way it usually gets used?? it's normally registered in gconf — like, if gconf is even available, we're not assuming anything here — and once it's in there, some file managers just pick it up and use it automatically. we're talking Nautilus, we're talking Thunar, we're talking your file manager finally having taste. ✨

no manual clicking. no drama. it just shows up. main character energy fr fr. 👑

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • FILE — an archive file. specifically: ZIP, RAR, tar, tar.gz or tar.bz2. and it has to contain at least one image file — an archive with zero images in it is giving nothing and comicthumb can't work with nothing. 🫶
  • THUMBNAIL — the thumbnail that's about to be created, bestie. it gets saved as a PNG image. that's the format. PNG. locked in. 💖
  • SIZE — the maximum size of the thumbnail, in pixels. and if you don't say anything? it just defaults to 128. so it's SIZE optional, cuteness mandatory. 🌸
lowkey important: SIZE is the maximum. so don't come for me if it's not exactly that. it's a ceiling, not a promise. 💀

✨ AUTHOR ✨

the legends who made this happen, show them some love 🥹:

  • Christoph Wolk <spikespiegel@gmx.de>
  • Pontus Ekberg <herrekberg@users.sourceforge.net>

okay that's the whole page!! and for the lil' sign-off at the bottom — this manual page is filed under comicthumb(1), section 1, General Commands Manual, no version number or date attached anywhere on it, so that's genuinely all the footer metadata there is. go make some thumbnails bestie, slay, periodt 💅🎀✨

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