# Quick start guide

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## Features

YACReader is a fast and simple comic reader with the following features:

- Multiplatform, there are Windows, Linux and MacOS X versions.
- cbr, cbz, rar, zip, tar and folders support
- jpeg, gif, png, tiff and bmp image support
- comic reading using keyboard and mouse
- fast open and comic navigation
- fullscreen mode
- configurable magnifying glass for improved reading, since 0.2.0 version is avaliable in windowed mode
- fit width (also adjust to an specific width) and fit height modes.
- configurable CoverFlow like effect for "go to page" function.
- image rotation for comfortable reading even in tablet PCs
- double page reading
- Comic bookmarks

## Functions and sortcuts

General functions:

- Open comic : 'O' key
- Open folder : 'Ctrl' + 'O' key
- Open next cómic : 'Ctrl' + 'Right'
- Open previous comic : 'Ctrl' + 'Left' key
- Exit : 'Esc' key
- Go to previous page : 'Left' key
- Go to next page : 'Right' key
- Scroll up : 'Wheel mouse up' or 'Up' key
- Scroll down : 'Wheel mouse down' or 'Down' key
- Auto Scroll down : 'Space Bar'
- Auto Scroll up : 'B' key
- Rotate to the left : 'L' key
- Rotate to the rigth : 'R' key
- Open "Go to" dialog : 'G' key
- Change between fit width/height modes : 'A' key
- Double page mode : 'D' key
- Toggle Full Screen mode : 'F' key or double click
- For "Go to flow" mode aproximate mouse cursor to bottom border or press 'S' key (show/hide switch).
- Show magnifying glass (only in fullscreen mode) : 'Z' key
- Show options : 'C' key
- Show/hide tool bar : 'H' key
- Show information ("current page/number of pages - current time"): 'I' key
- Show bookmarks dialog : 'M' key
- Set bookmark: 'Ctrl' + 'M' key

"Go to flow" functions:

- Hide / show : 'S' key.
- Go to current central page on the flow : 'Return' or 'Enter'
- Next flow page : 'Right' key or left mouse click on the right area of the flow
- Previous flow page : 'Left' key or left mouse click on the left area of the flow
- Fast forward : 'Ctrl' + 'Right'
- Fast backward : 'Ctrl' + 'Left'
- Scroll flow : Wheel mouse

Magnifying glass functions:

- Show/hide : 'Z' key.
- Resize : Wheel mouse or '+'/'-' keys.
- Resize height : 'Ctrl' + Wheel mouse.
- Resize width : 'Alt' + Wheel mouse.
- Adjust zoom level : 'Shift' + Wheel mouse or 'Shift' + '+'/'-' keys.

Configuration dialog

- "My comics path" : set your favourite comic path. Open comic dialog will open that path by default.
- "Go to flow size" : move the slider to set your prefered go to flow size
- "How to show pages in GoToFlow" : since version 0.2.0, you can choose between three diferent styles:
  - Cover Flow : the classic style
  - Strip : a strip of pages flowing horizontaly
  - Overlapped Strip : a strip of pages with overlap effect
- "Page width stretch" : move the slider to set your prefered page width stretch. This takes effect in "fit to width" reading mode.

Bookmarks

- You can add three bookmarks per comic (using thumbtack icon or pressing 'Ctrl'+M). New bookmarks replace oldest bookmarks.
- YACReader saves automatically the latest page read (the current page when closing).
- To go to any bookmark (last page included), open de bookmarks dialog and click on the desired page

## Usage and considerations

The usual way to read a comic with YACReader is press 'O' to open a comic, and then use 'Space' and 'B' for autoscrolling pages, you can use 'UP', 'DOWN' or 'Mouse Wheel' too, when you reach page limit (top or bottom) next page is loaded automatically, moreover, you can go to next or previous page using 'RIGTH' and 'LEFT'.

Jumping between pages is posible using "Go To..." dialog ('G' key) or "Go To Flow" widget ('S' key). You don't have to wait until all pages are loaded to use these functions, because pages are shown as soon as they are ready.

YACReader loads all comic compresed images in memory, when it needs to show one page, only that one is rendered. Since all pages are in memory YACReader uses aproximately the same RAM as the comic size, so take care if you want to view huge comics with YACReader (comics larger than your RAM).

The "Go To flow" widget needs to render only the images which will be shown, doing it in a lazy way to reduce memory consumption, in any case, it takes a significant amount of RAM (RAM consumption depends on how many images and how larger are them). So, if you don't have enough RAM, please, reduce 'Slide' size on the 'Options' dialog.