Comic book archive

Comic book archive file
Comic book archives may be accessed via tablets or iPhones.
Filename extension .cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cba, .cb7 (containers)
Internet media type application/vnd.comicbook+zip [.cbz only], application/vnd.comicbook-rar [.cbr only]
Type of format Multimedia, archive file
Container for Images
Standard None

A comic book archive or comic book reader file (also called sequential image file) is a type of archive file for the purpose of sequential viewing of images, commonly for comic books. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay sequential image viewer;[1] since then, many viewers for different platforms have been created.

Design

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.

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.[4] These files can include additional information like artists, story information, table of contents or even a separate text layer for comic book translations.[5]

Adoption

Windows

  • Calibre can view and convert to different formats, but does not handle .cbr or .cb7 formats.
  • CDisplay was the first application to support the CBR format.
  • CDisplayEx inspired by CDisplay with additional viewing features.
  • ComicRack is a full featured comic reader that supports cbz/zip/cbr/rar/cbt/tar/cb7/7z/pdf/djvu formats.
  • Comic Seer (Desktop) is a comic book archive viewer and organizer for the desktop.
  • Cover is an UWP app which support CBZ/ZIP, CBR/RAR, 7Z/CB7, CBT, PDF, EPUB
  • Gonvisor is a comic reader simple to use with some features to improve image quality.
  • MComix is a fork of Comix.
  • STDU Viewer
  • SumatraPDF

Mac

  • Calibre can view and convert to different formats.
  • Simple Comic, an open source comic viewer with many features including archive reading support.


iOS

  • Panels Comic Reader is a free comic viewer for iPhone and iPad that supports .cbr, .cbz and PDF files. It includes reading sync between devices and import content from many sources (Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive and many more).[6]
  • Chunky Comic Reader, an iPad only app that handles CBZs, CBRs, CBTs, EPUBs, and PDFs. It will also support any contained CBI/ComicbookLover or ComicRack information.[7]
  • ComicFlow is a free comic viewer app that supports .cbr, .cbz and pdf files.
  • Comic Landscape is a paid comic viewer app that supports .cbr, .cbz, .zip, .rar and .pdf files that specializes in displaying images in landscape mode (in addition to portrait mode)[8].
  • Comic Glass, a paid comic viewer app can read comic book archives as well as PDFs.
  • Comic Viewer, a paid app that supports, .cbr, .cbz, .rar, and .zip files.[9]
  • Comic Zeal handles CBZs, CBRs and PDFs.
  • iComics, a paid iPad and iPhone app that handles CBZs, CBRs, CBTs, EPUBs, and PDFs.
  • Manga Storm CBR, a free comic/manga viewer app for iOS that supports comic book archives, EPUBs, and PDFs. Also supports importing content directly from various cloud services and contains many useful features.[10]

Android

  • FBReader supports CBZ/CBR files on android with the comic book plugin available from the website.
  • Perfect Viewer supports CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT. [11]
  • CDisplayEx

Unix-like

  • Calibre can view and convert to different formats.
  • Comic Seer (Desktop) is a comic book archive viewer and organizer for the desktop.
  • Comix is a full featured comic book viewer and organizer.
  • Evince document viewer, includes support for the format.
  • MComix is a fork of Comix.
  • Okular can view many formats, including PDF and CBR, and is included in the KDE Software Compilation.
  • MuPDF is a cross-platform lightweight PDF, XPS, and E-book viewer.


MorphOS

  • RNOComics is a full featured comic book reader that supports CBR, CBZ, CBT, and about 100 other archiving formats.

AmigaOS 4

  • RNOComics is a full featured comic book reader that supports CBR, CBZ, CBT, and about 100 other archiving formats.

See also

References

  1. ↑ CDisplay Image Display Download.com
  2. ↑ "CBR file extension". Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "CBZ file extension". Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  4. ↑ "Metadata for Digital Comics".
  5. ↑ "Advanced Comic Book Format project page".
  6. ↑ Panels Comic Reader for iOS. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
  7. ↑ Chunky Comic Reader for iPad. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Comic Landscape - A large way to read your comics". Retrieved 15 October 2017]
  9. ↑ Comic Viewer - Denvog. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  10. ↑ Manga Storm CBR - Comic Book Reader for CBR/CBZ/PDF Files. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  11. ↑ Play Store - Perfect Viewer. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
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