Comic Book Archive file

infobox file format
name = ComicBook Reader File
extension = .cbr, .cbz, .cbt, .cba, .cb7 (containers)
mime = application/x-cbr
genre = Multimedia, archive file

Comic Book Archive file or ComicBook 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. [cite web | title=List of comic viewers |url=http://www.zcultfm.com/~comic/wiki/index.php/Comic_Viewers]

Format

The Comic Book Archive format is an often uncompressed archive which uses one of several popular compression file formats. The files may be opened using the appropriate compression program simply by changing the file extension, depending on the file format:
*.cbr →.rar
*.cbz →.zipRare:
*.cb7 →.7z
*.cbt →.tar
*.cba →.ace

Comic Book Archive files usually consist of a series of image files, typically PNG or JPEG files. Occasionally GIF, BMP, and TIFF files are seen.

Advantages of these file formats include simplified file viewing and maintenance.

Adoption

Windows

* CDisplay was the first application to support the CBR format.
* CDisplayEx, an open source clone, duplicates many features of the original CDisplay.
* Comical
* ComicRack

Mac OS X

* ComicBookLover, a comic book manager and viewer similar to iTunes.
* FFView
* Comical
* Xee
* Simple Comic
* Jomic

Linux

For users of the GNOME desktop environment, the Evince document viewer includes support for the format and users of the KDE 4 desktop environment can use Okular. Other Linux readers for the format are
* QComicBook
* Comix
* cbrPager

See also

* Comparison of image viewers

References

External links

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