Creating a cover is required

[ragtag]

It seems that in the ACBF Editor, you're required to have a cover page, and you seemingly can't define frames on the cover page.

Many short comics, especially ones that have not been in print, may not have a cover page, so start straight on the first page. Since you can't define frames on the first page, you would need to insert a dummy cover page for these kinds of comics, if you wanted to set it up so that it can be read zoomed in, frame by frame.

Or am I just doing something wrong?

[Robert Kubík (Pastierovič) (just-me)]

Hi,

as per latest specs, coverpage can have frames/text-layers ... https://acbf.wikia.com/wiki/Meta-data_Section_Definition#Coverpage

It's not supported in ACBF Editor yet. But if I'm not mistaken it is supported by the viewer.

Cheers

[ragtag (ragtag-ragtag)]

Thanks for the quick reply. It's great to hear that this is supported.

I did some quick testing, and it does indeed work in the Viewer. Krita's Comics Manager can export ACBF files that have frames defined for the cover page, which is what I used to test this.

I did find a tiny UI bug in the Viewer when using frames on the cover page though. If you navigate backwards to the first page when zoomed in, the back arrows in the UI become disabled when you reach the cover page, even though you're zoomed in to the last panel on the cover page. You can still use the arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate backwards, just not the UI buttons.

I guess you can just consider this bug report closed. :)