Just trying to figure out how I can link my digital comic, so that I can read it on my computer. Most are CBR format. Thanks!
Are you looking to put a “file path link” to an actual file on your computer, as a link in CLZ Comics Web? If so: it is not possible to link to files on your hard drive with CLZ Comics Web I’m afraid.
Many similar apps allow you to add your own digital comic books. YacReader and ComicRack for example. A file path link to a local or network file would be one solution. I’m sorry to hear this is not possible with CLZ. I wonder why not - it would make it a much more useful piece of software. Do any of the other CLZ Comics apps allow this?
But aren’t YacReader and ComicRack installable software?
Like an actual program, installed on your computer? Those would of course easily be able to scan your hard disk for files, or you could add file links, to files, on your harddisk.
CLZ Comics Web, is a web-app, works in your browser on any computer in the world with an Internet connection.
Web-apps usually don’t have links to files on one specific computer (it would require a website (ours) to scan your hard disk (security problem) for files and then produce a path, which then provides a link that would be able to open a file, on your computer. However, if you then log in from any other computer, that path would not be valid anyway.
So indeed, our web-app, that works online, not installed on your computer, does not do that I’m afraid.
You can of course edit a comic, go to the Links tab, and link to an online version of your digital comic book. So say if you put it on your Google Drive or Dropbox, then create a “link” from it, then you would be able to put that link in a comic entry in CLZ Comics Web.
Hope that makes it a bit more clear!
Very interesting about linking an online version. Would this work for a network location? If the network location has an IP address, could the comic be linked this way?
I understand what you say about the difference between a web app and an app installed on the computer. There isn’t a similar version of CLZ that installs on the computer and could do this?
I’m not sure if that would work, if you are able to open the file by creating a link with an IP, I guess it might work. You could test it out of course!
Our legacy Windows software would allow you to link to a file on your computer, but we do not sell that anymore I’m afraid.
Thanks for the replies.
Wouldn’t a small change in code (allowing links to the actual digital comics) lead to a large increase in userbase (all those people that use other apps to manage digital comics)? CLZ seems better in most other aspects (metadata, organisation, presentation etc) so it would seem a no-brainer?
Links on a website to files on your computer, that is just not something that works on a website, it feels like, and probably would be, a major security thing too.
What about using Dropbox/Google Drive or the IP solution? I’d give it a try with 1 or 2 books!
Yes, true. I guess I was thinking more of a desktop app. Or even better - some kind of cloud storage solution. I will look into the IP idea. I’m also looking into ComicRack as an option.