[Kavita] Read custom page order from ComicInfo.xml

[cam1170]

Idea Description

In comictagger, you can drag pages to be in a different order. This allows one to fix the order pages should be in without renaming files to be alphabetical. Kavita (as of 0.8.1.0) doesn't use this information.
See my example of fixing a poorly organized One Piece artbook to be right to left:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<ComicInfo>
  <Title>One Piece Color Walk 1</Title>
  <Writer>Eiichiro Oda</Writer>
  <Manga>No</Manga>
  <PageCount>108</PageCount>
  <Pages>
    <Page Image="0" ImageHeight="3541" ImageSize="9754038" ImageWidth="5111" Type="FrontCover" />
    <Page Image="2" ImageHeight="3628" ImageSize="923741" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="1" ImageHeight="3544" ImageSize="1008054" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="3" ImageHeight="676" ImageSize="300160" ImageWidth="1771" />
    <Page Image="4" ImageHeight="3766" ImageSize="3316426" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="6" ImageHeight="3939" ImageSize="1790638" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="5" ImageHeight="3799" ImageSize="1449215" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="8" ImageHeight="3828" ImageSize="3151248" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="7" ImageHeight="3759" ImageSize="2001253" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="10" ImageHeight="3824" ImageSize="2067465" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="9" ImageHeight="3766" ImageSize="1592192" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="11" ImageHeight="3791" ImageSize="1040344" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="12" ImageHeight="4008" ImageSize="1727551" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="13" ImageHeight="3831" ImageSize="1355014" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="14" ImageHeight="3824" ImageSize="1896281" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="15" ImageHeight="3831" ImageSize="1395375" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="16" ImageHeight="3831" ImageSize="1524744" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="18" ImageHeight="3802" ImageSize="2478195" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="17" ImageHeight="3847" ImageSize="2168353" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="19" ImageHeight="3817" ImageSize="1150208" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="20" ImageHeight="3888" ImageSize="2044746" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="22" ImageHeight="3900" ImageSize="1752997" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="21" ImageHeight="3839" ImageSize="1563040" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="24" ImageHeight="3911" ImageSize="1977402" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="23" ImageHeight="3843" ImageSize="1294893" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="26" ImageHeight="3915" ImageSize="1473624" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="25" ImageHeight="3855" ImageSize="1577009" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="27" ImageHeight="3900" ImageSize="1278021" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="28" ImageHeight="3950" ImageSize="1934979" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="29" ImageHeight="3900" ImageSize="1601574" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="30" ImageHeight="4006" ImageSize="2346861" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="31" ImageHeight="3904" ImageSize="1510746" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="32" ImageHeight="3946" ImageSize="1552766" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="34" ImageHeight="3877" ImageSize="1740438" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="33" ImageHeight="3911" ImageSize="1733466" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="36" ImageHeight="3942" ImageSize="1471517" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="35" ImageHeight="3937" ImageSize="1310565" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="37" ImageHeight="4011" ImageSize="1377791" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="38" ImageHeight="3866" ImageSize="1239678" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="39" ImageHeight="3927" ImageSize="1517437" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="40" ImageHeight="3900" ImageSize="1468877" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="41" ImageHeight="3946" ImageSize="2385454" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="42" ImageHeight="3922" ImageSize="2173029" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="44" ImageHeight="3881" ImageSize="1721965" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="43" ImageHeight="3866" ImageSize="1704110" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="45" ImageHeight="3955" ImageSize="1528209" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="46" ImageHeight="3911" ImageSize="1763860" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="47" ImageHeight="3977" ImageSize="2278871" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="48" ImageHeight="3884" ImageSize="2186320" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="49" ImageHeight="3958" ImageSize="1498339" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="50" ImageHeight="3873" ImageSize="1792902" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="51" ImageHeight="3962" ImageSize="1627219" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="52" ImageHeight="3858" ImageSize="1835545" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="53" ImageHeight="3981" ImageSize="1098679" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="54" ImageHeight="3840" ImageSize="1503502" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="55" ImageHeight="3974" ImageSize="1263764" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="56" ImageHeight="3911" ImageSize="1482532" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="57" ImageHeight="3946" ImageSize="1535632" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="58" ImageHeight="3888" ImageSize="1552238" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="59" ImageHeight="3904" ImageSize="2062848" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="60" ImageHeight="3915" ImageSize="2415321" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="62" ImageHeight="3950" ImageSize="1502990" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="61" ImageHeight="3870" ImageSize="1398111" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="63" ImageHeight="3958" ImageSize="1639107" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="64" ImageHeight="3900" ImageSize="1150891" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="65" ImageHeight="3918" ImageSize="2156413" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="66" ImageHeight="3881" ImageSize="2690021" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="68" ImageHeight="3892" ImageSize="1857380" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="67" ImageHeight="3877" ImageSize="2024707" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="69" ImageHeight="3896" ImageSize="1810943" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="70" ImageHeight="3900" ImageSize="1430116" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="71" ImageHeight="3911" ImageSize="1761752" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="72" ImageHeight="3892" ImageSize="1487869" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="73" ImageHeight="3892" ImageSize="2174481" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="74" ImageHeight="3907" ImageSize="2156870" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="76" ImageHeight="3888" ImageSize="1094745" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="75" ImageHeight="3877" ImageSize="1727250" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="77" ImageHeight="3881" ImageSize="2039962" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="78" ImageHeight="3915" ImageSize="1163082" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="79" ImageHeight="3923" ImageSize="1464065" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="80" ImageHeight="3915" ImageSize="1556649" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="82" ImageHeight="3915" ImageSize="1689178" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="81" ImageHeight="3900" ImageSize="1236149" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="83" ImageHeight="3911" ImageSize="1644856" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="84" ImageHeight="3881" ImageSize="1291535" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="85" ImageHeight="3888" ImageSize="1398675" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="86" ImageHeight="3915" ImageSize="2180286" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="87" ImageHeight="3873" ImageSize="2102126" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="88" ImageHeight="3888" ImageSize="2169324" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="90" ImageHeight="3866" ImageSize="1094912" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="89" ImageHeight="3829" ImageSize="1817975" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="92" ImageHeight="3866" ImageSize="1832265" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="91" ImageHeight="3881" ImageSize="1939827" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="93" ImageHeight="3836" ImageSize="1984242" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="94" ImageHeight="3881" ImageSize="1096191" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="95" ImageHeight="3855" ImageSize="1584734" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="96" ImageHeight="3855" ImageSize="1230588" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="97" ImageHeight="3809" ImageSize="1113106" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="98" ImageHeight="3843" ImageSize="1292448" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="99" ImageHeight="3835" ImageSize="1402171" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="100" ImageHeight="3831" ImageSize="1842314" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="101" ImageHeight="3803" ImageSize="1557377" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="102" ImageHeight="3802" ImageSize="1507852" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="103" ImageHeight="3777" ImageSize="1171815" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="104" ImageHeight="3817" ImageSize="1647351" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="105" ImageHeight="3756" ImageSize="1510935" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="106" ImageHeight="3809" ImageSize="1415319" ImageWidth="2500" />
    <Page Image="107" ImageHeight="3749" ImageSize="992101" ImageWidth="2500" />
  </Pages>
</ComicInfo>

Idea Category

Feature Enhancement

Duration of Using Kavita

A few months

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[therobbiedavis]

Interesting. I do feel this should be supported since it's available via the spec, however I don't think a single consumer app (except probably CR, which created the spec) out there supports it.

My only concern is that adding this check would also add considerable load time to the reader.

[DieselTech]

I never really looked into this before with CR because no other program used the feature, but from some testing just now it seems that the image number would just be the order of the images as they show up in the zip file.

My only concern is that adding this check would also add considerable load time to the reader.

Trying to think about that, I don't think kavita would have to change anything about how it unzips the images. We just need to change (respect) the order in which they are loaded into the reader. Could enumerate over the temp folder to get the filenames in order, then just load them according to the xml.