Comic book format
The comic book format (from the English comic book format ) is a file format which consists of a compressed archive file and contains images for sequential viewing - especially comics . The archive can be compressed in various file formats.
Details
An archive with the file extension .cbz (for Comic Book Zip ) consists of a regular ZIP file that contains images for viewing in alphabetical order of the image file names. If, on the other hand, the file archive was created in a different format, the extension changes accordingly:
- .cbz → ZIP
- .cbr → RAR
- .cb7 → 7z
- .cbt → TAR
- .cba → ACE
- .cbtc → TrueCrypt container
- .cvbdl → Bundle folder (Mac OS X)
This makes it possible to combine the image files in PNG or JPEG format of many individual comic pages or other image series (such as digital picture books ) in a single file, so that the entire document can be easily passed on and conveniently leafed through with an appropriate program.
If you do not have a viewer for the comic book format, you can easily unpack the archive with a packing program and display the images with a regular image viewer . The file extension may have to be replaced beforehand with the one assigned by default by the packing program.
The format is directly supported, for example, by the document viewers Evince ( Linux / Gnome ), Atril (Linux / MATE ), Okular (Linux / KDE ) and Sumatra PDF ( Windows ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Open CBR files - page at Chip Online ; Retrieved November 26, 2015
- ↑ Linux community: reading and archiving comics digitally on the Linux PC: CBZ and CBR . May 28, 2010, accessed November 26, 2015