Comic book archive
| Filename extension | .cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cba, .cb7 (containers) |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | application/x-cbr |
| Type of format | Multimedia, archive file |
| Container for | Images |
| Standard(s) | None |
A comic book archive or comic book reader file is a type of archive file for the purpose of sequential viewing of images, especially comic books. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay image viewer; since then, many viewers for different platforms have been created.
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Design [edit]
Comic book archive files mainly consist of a series of image files, typically PNG (lossless compression) or JPEG (lossy compression) files, stored as a single archive file. Occasionally GIF, BMP, and TIFF files are seen. Folders may be used to group images.
The file name extension indicates the archive type used:
Comic book archive files are not a distinct file format; only the file name extension differs from a standard file of the given archive type.
The file names inside an archive are usually numbered in ascending order according to the original page number. Including the use of preceding zeros for all positions (example: using 001 rather than 1) to force the proper display of images by viewers across all operating systems. Otherwise files can be displayed out of order (example: 1, 10-19, 100-199, 2, 20-29, 3, etc) due to differences in how file name characters are handled by each operating system.
Comic book archive viewers typically offer various dedicated functions to read the content, like one page forward/backwards, go to first/last page, zoom or print. Some applications support additional tag information in the form of embedded XML files in the archive or use of the ZIP comment to store additional information.[3][4] These files can include additional information like artists, story information, table of contents or even a separate text layer for comic book translations.
Adoption [edit]
FreeBSD [edit]
- Calibre, can view and convert to different format
- Comix is a full featured comic book viewer and organizer
- MComix, a Comix fork
- Evince document viewer, includes support for the format
- Okular can view many formats, including PDF and CBR, and is included in the KDE Software Compilation.
- Comical, a sequential image viewer
- cbrPager, a small and simple viewer for cbr, cb7 and cbz files
- CBView, a viewer/converter for CBR/CBZ comic book archives
Linux [edit]
- YACReader
- Calibre, can view and convert to different format.
- Comix is a full featured comic book viewer and organizer
- Evince document viewer, includes support for the format
- MComix is a fork of Comix. [5]
- Okular can view many formats, including PDF and CBR, and is included in the KDE Software Compilation.
- QComicBook is a comic book viewer that uses the Qt toolkit. [6]
- ACBF Viewer can view CBZ format as well as its own ACBF format embedded in CBZ archive.[7]
- Comic Seer is a comic book archive viewer and organizer.
Mac [edit]
- YACReader
- Calibre, can view and convert to different format.
- ComicBookLover, an iTunes like comic reader for reading and organizing a comic library.
- Comic Zeal, the first comic reader on the app store more than three years ago.
- Simple Comic, an open source comic viewer with many features including archive reading support
Windows [edit]
- YACReader
- Calibre, can view and convert to different format.
- CDisplay was the first application to support the CBR format.
- Evince document viewer, includes support for the format
- STDU Viewer
- Sumatra
- ComicRack
- Comic Seer is a comic book archive viewer and organizer.
- CoView
- Comic Utility Belt can export pages and covers from CBR, CBZ and PDF
- Yasai is an open source viewer that supports the format.
- GonVisor Similar to CDisplay but adding some other features.
Android [edit]
- Perfect Viewer,[8] Most popular image/comic viewer. Support archive file format: CBZ/ZIP,CBR/RAR,7Z/CB7(No solid mode),LZH. Support image file format: JPEG,PNG,GIF,BMP. It also supports PDF files via a separate free plugin.
- A Comic Viewer,[9] Opensource comic & manga viewer. Opens CBZ/ZIP, ACV, CBR/RAR (beta), JPEG, PNG, BMP & image folders.
- Orion Viewer,[10] Opensource pdf, djvu, xps and cbz file viewer/reader.
- Challenger Comics Viewer,[11] Free comic viewer, supports continuous vertical scrolling, can open files from local area network (Samba). Supported file formats are : JPEG, PNG, PDF, CBZ, ZIP, CBR and RAR.
iOS [edit]
- YACReader.[12]
- ComicBookLover,[13][14] supports CBR, CBZ, PDF comics, accessing comics stored on third party storage providers such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Live, and syncing with ComicBookLover for Mac.
- ComicFlow,[15] free and open source, supports CBZ, CBR and PDF.
- CloudReaders,[16] free, supports PDF, CBZ, ZIP, CBR and RAR format, and p2p file transfer between iPads/iPhones via Bluetooth.
Windows Phone 8 [edit]
- PDF Reader,[17] Free pdf, xps and cbz file viewer/reader.
See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ "CBR file extension". Retrieved 15 June 2011.
- ^ "CBZ file extension". Retrieved 15 June 2011.
- ^ "Metadata for Digital Comics".
- ^ "Advanced Comic Book Format project page".
- ^ "MComics Project Page".
- ^ "QComicBook Project Page".
- ^ "Advanced Comic Book Format project page".
- ^ "Perfect Viewer".
- ^ "A Comic Viewer".
- ^ "Orion Viewer".
- ^ "Challenger Comics Viewer".
- ^ "YACReader for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad".
- ^ "ComicBookLover iPhone".
- ^ "ComicBookLover iPad".
- ^ "ComicFlow".
- ^ "CloudReaders pdf,cbz,cbr".
- ^ "PDF Reader".
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