Comic Book Archive file
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Comic Book Archive file or ComicBook Reader File is a ZIP or RAR file of images with the file extension renamed to .cbz and cbr respectively for the purpose of viewing the images in sequence with an image viewer and simplifying file maintenance. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay image viewer. CBZ/R files typically contain PNG or JPEG files. Occasionally GIF, BMP, and TIFF are seen, but the PNG format is a better replacement for each of them for different reasons. Their contents can be extracted by any utility that can read ZIP and RAR files. CBZ/R files can easily be created by storing (not compressing) any group of images with file archivers on .zip or .rar file formats, and later changing the extension to .cbr for .rar files and to .cbz for .zip files. The first comic produced specifically for this format was Saturn Knight, released in August 2006 by Jim Shelley and Pierre Villeneuve.
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[edit] Free Downloadable Examples of .CBZ and .CBR files
- Flashback Universe Free comics made for CBR format
[edit] Viewers/Readers of .CBZ and .CBR files
- GonVisor Windows
- Picwalker Windows
- FFView Mac OS X
- CBView gtk2-perl software for Linux
- CDisplay Comic Reader, Homepage of CDisplay
- cdisplay Unofficial CDisplay updates
- cdisplay Shell script for Linux
- CDisplayEx Open source CDisplay clone for Windows
- Comical Mac OS X and Windows viewer, can be compiled for Linux
- ComicBookLover Mac OS X viewer, collector, organizer
- Comic Rack Windows viewer, collector, organizer
- Comic-Scans Thumbnail Browser, allows creation and viewing covers of comic books
- ComicViewer Java/Gnome for Linux
- Comix Python GTK based viewer (intended for Unix like environments)
- Evince, A GNOME document viewer
- Jimic Java/AWT platform independent CBZ viewer (JDK 1.1)
- Jomic Java/Swing platform independent viewer
- Okular Qt/Linux (still under development)
- QComicBook Qt/Linux
- ScansReader Linux/Unix Open source (C+X11)
