Requirements

Installation

Perform the following steps to install Jomic:

  1. Download Jomic-x.y.z.dmg, where x, y, and z indicate the version number.

  2. Extract the archive and mount the volume contained in it (unless it already happened automatically after the download).

  3. Copy the Jomic application to wherever you like, for example ~/Applications.

Start

To start Jomic from the Finder, simply double-click it in the Finder, or drop a comic on the icon.

To start Jomic in the terminal, use the open command as usual, for example: open -a ~/Applications/Jomic stuff/comics/example.cbz. If you are unfamiliar with open, type man open to learn more about it.

If you want to use all options Jomic's command line interface supports, things take some effort. The open command does not allow to pass options to the application. To work around this, the Jomic application bundle includes a little Python script to launch it from the command line using the Java ressources of the application bundle. As the script is located inside the bundle, its location depends on the place where Jomic is installed. Assuming Jomic is located in ~/Applications/Jomic.app, you can run the script using for example: python ~/Applications/Jomic.app/Contents/Resources/jomic.py --continue.

Tip

Although you can also use the installer, the single JAR or Web Start to start Jomic under Mac OS X, there is not much point to it. They do not support many convenient features such as dragging and dropping comics on the icon, or assigning icons to CBZ and CBR files. Furthermore, you have to mess with installing unrar.