seanpm2001 / Anime_Studio_Manga-File-Format

👁️‍🗨️️🖼️📖️ The Anime Studio *.manga file format specification. Part of the Anime Studio software project.

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Anime Studio Manga File Format

The Manga File Format is a document file format designed in the Anime Studio that allows for specialized digital viewing and rendering of Manga. It is written in Gosu and Ren'Py.

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File extension

The Manga file format uses the *.manga file format. It does not use any other file extension.

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Format

Sample empty manga file:

/Template1.manga

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title = "Template1 (Manga)"
description = "File coming soon"
body = ""
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V1: 2023, Wednesday, February 22nd at 6:26 pm PST)

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Related projects by @seanpm2001

• Anime Studio: Manga Studio - A software piece that handles *.manga files.
• Anime Studio: Avatar Studio - A software tool with functionality related to the avatar import and export functionality of this format.
• Anime Studio: Style Manager - A software tool with the functionality of drawing Anime and Manga designs.

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Features

• Ren'Py integration
• Subtitles support
• Avatar import and export functionality
• Integration with Anime Studio: Manga Studio, Avatar Studio, and Style Manager
• Support for JPG, SVG, PNG, TIF, GIF, NetP, JP2, JPE, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, WMF, and more
• Similar to the CBZ file format
• Convert to and from PDF, EPUB, ODT, CBZ, and MOBI
• UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 compatibility
• Support for many images at once
• Support for books of many pages
• 32 bit, 64 bit, and 128 bit variants, along with 256 bit and higher support

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Limitations

Note The power of your computer is a separate limitation (EG: how much RAM, CPU, and Disk space you have)

16 bit

This format does not support systems 16 bit and lower.

32 bit

• Files limited to 2 gigabytes (2,000,000,000 bytes) each
• Limit of 500,000 pages per file
• Limit of 262,144 images per file
• Limit of 2,000,000,000 characters per file

64 bit

These are extremely hard to reach limitations, a line has to be drawn somewhere.

• Files limited to 10 Exabytes (10,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) each
• Limit of 4,000,000,000 pages per file
• Limit of 250,000,000,000,000 images per file
• Limit of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 characters per file

128 bit and higher

These are extremely hard to reach limitations, a line has to be drawn somewhere.

• Files limited to 32 Exabytes (32,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) each
• Limit of 4,294,967,296 pages per file
• Limit of 281,474,976,710,656 images per file
• Limit of 32,000,000,000,000,000,000 characters per file

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File version: 1 (2023, Monday, March 13th at 5:52 pm PST)

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