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Fanfix-jexer

Fanfix-jexer is a program that offer you a text interface (via the Jexer library) around the comics/stories/mangas library Fanfix.

You can also use the graphical version, Fanfix-swing.

Synopsis

fanfix-jexer
fanfix-jexer [...] (Fanfix options)

Description

(If you are interested in the recent changes, please check the Changelog – note that starting from version x.x.x, the changelog is checked at startup.)

Main GUI

A screenshots gallery can be found here.

It will convert from a (supported) URL to an .epub file for stories or a .cbz file for comics (a few other output types are also available, like Plain Text, LaTeX, HTML…).

To help organize your stories, it can also work as a local library so you can:

Import a story from its URL (or just from a file)
Export a story to a file (in any of the supported output types)
Display a story from the local library natively or by calling a native program to handle it

Supported websites

Currently, the following websites are supported:

http://FimFiction.net/: fan fictions devoted to the My Little Pony show
http://Fanfiction.net/: fan fictions of many, many different universes, from TV shows to novels to games
http://mangahub.io/: a well filled repository of mangas (English)
https://e621.net/: a Furry website supporting comics, including MLP
https://sofurry.com/: same thing, but story-oriented
https://e-hentai.org/: done upon request (so, feel free to ask for more websites!)
http://mangas-lecture-en-ligne.fr/: a website offering a lot of mangas (in French)

Support file types

We support a few file types for local story conversion (both as input and as output):

epub: .epub files created by this program (we do not support “all” .epub files, at least for now)
text: local stories encoded in plain text format, with a few specific rules:
- the title must be on the first line
- the author (preceded by nothing, by or ©) must be on the second line, possibly with the publication date in parenthesis (i.e., By Unknown (3rd October 1998))
- chapters must be declared with Chapter x or Chapter x: NAME OF THE CHAPTER, where x is the chapter number
- a description of the story must be given as chapter number 0
- a cover image may be present with the same filename as the story, but a .png, .jpeg or .jpg extension
info_text: contains the same information as the text format, but with a companion .info file to store some metadata (the .info file is supposed to be created by Fanfix or compatible with it)
cbz: .cbz (collection of images) files, preferably created with Fanfix (but any .cbz file is supported, though without most of Fanfix metadata, obviously)
html: HTML files that you can open with any browser; note that it will create a directory structure with index.html as the main file – we only support importing HTML files created by Fanfix

Supported platforms

Any platform with at lest Java 1.6 on it should be ok.

It has been tested on Linux (Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu), MacOS X and Windows for now, but feel free to inform us if you try it on another system.

If you have any problems to compile it with a supported Java version (1.6+), please contact us.

Note for Windows : we also offer a launcher in EXE format that checks if Java is available before starting the program, and helps you install it if not.

Options

You can start the program without parameters:

java -jar fanfix-jexer.jar
fanfix-jexer (if you used make install)

You can also use the options supported by Fanfix.

Environment

Some environment variables are recognized by the program:

LANG=en: force the language to English
CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/.fanfix: use the given directory as a config directory (and copy the default configuration if needed)
NOUTF=1: try to fallback to non-unicode values when possible (can have an impact on the resulting files, not only on user messages)
DEBUG=1: force the DEBUG=true option of the configuration file (to show more information on errors)

Compilation

./configure.sh && make

You can also import the java sources into, say, Eclipse, and create a runnable JAR file from there.

Dependant libraries (included)

Required:

src/be/nikiroo/jexer: the jexer library with some custom changes, included as a subtree
libs/unbescape-sources.jar: a nice library to escape/unescape a lot of text formats; used here for HTML
libs/jsoup-sources.jar: a library to parse HTML
libs/JSON-java-20190722-sources.jar: a library to parse JSON

Optional:

pandoc: to generate the man pages from the README files (to use it, pandoc must be available as program in the PATH)

Submodules:

src/be/nikiroo/utils: some shared utility functions from https://github.com/nikiroo/nikiroo-utils.git – branch subtree
src/be/nikiroo/fanfix: the fanfix library upon which all the program is based from https://github.com/nikiroo/fanfix.git – branch subtree

Nothing else but Java 1.6+.

Note that calling make libs will export the libraries into the src/ directory.

Author

Fanfix was written by Niki Roo niki@nikiroo.be