http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:04:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/acbf-an-openfree-digital-com.html http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/acbf-an-openfree-digital-com.html#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:21:45 +0000 Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/?p=154211
Robo Pastierovic has created Advanced Comic Book Format (ACBF), a free/open format for online comic books. ACBF has a lot of cool features: support for creator metadata; per-panel/page definitions; multiple text-layers for multiple languages; text formatting and style data; auto-indexing and more. The format is CC-BY-SA, and can be found on Launchpad, along with GPL'ed viewers for GNU/Linux and Windows. There's screenshots, too. Robo was kind enough to convert the comic adaptation of my story Craphound, which appeared in my CC-licensed graphic novel Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Tales of Here and Now -- he also translated the comic into Slovak and included the translation in a separate layer.]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/04/12/acbf-an-openfree-digital-com.html/feed 8