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cr2xt

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crqt-ng is fast and small cross-platform XML/CSS based eBook reader. Written using the Qt framework.

Supported formats: fb2, fb3 (incomplete), epub (non-DRM), doc, docx, odt, rtf, pdb, mobi (non-DRM), txt, html, Markdown, chm, tcr.

Main functions:

  • Ability to display 2 pages at the same time
  • Displaying and Navigating Book Contents
  • Text search
  • Word hyphenation using hyphenation dictionaries
  • Most complete support for FB2 - styles, tables, footnotes at the bottom of the page
  • Extensive font rendering capabilities: use of ligatures, kerning, hinting option selection, floating punctuation, simultaneous use of several fonts, including fallback fonts
  • Detection of the main font incompatible with the language of the book
  • Reading books directly from a ZIP archive
  • TXT auto reformat, automatic encoding recognition
  • Flexible styling with CSS files
  • Background pictures, textures, or solid background
  • HiDPI support
  • Multi-tabbed interface

Authors: CrazyCoder

Compatibility: Uses the C library of the system (may need glibc 2.34 or later)

Usage

cr2xt is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!

AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.

This AppImage uses the C library of the system and may need glibc 2.34 or later. It does not run on distributions that use a different C library (such as musl on Alpine Linux) or an older glibc.

Running cr2xt on Linux without installation

Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.

Beware! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!

Download the cr2xt AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:

chmod +x ./*.AppImage

Then double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.

Sandboxing cr2xt

If you want to restrict what cr2xt can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.

Updating cr2xt

If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new cr2xt AppImage.

Integrating AppImages into the system

If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see cr2xt and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.

Note for application authors

Thanks for distributing cr2xt in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.

Pro Tips for further enhancing the cr2xt AppImage

Please consider to add update information to the cr2xt AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.

Please consider making the cr2xt AppImage self-contained, so that it does not depend on the C library of the system and runs on more distributions: ship the C library including its loader (ld-linux-*.so.*) and use it to launch the application, or link statically, and use the current, statically linked AppImage runtime.

Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/cr2xt if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.

If you would like to see a donation link for the application here, please include one in the AppStream data.

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