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Comic Book Archive file or ComicBook Reader File is a ZIP, RAR, or more rarely TAR file of images with the file extension renamed to .cbz ,.cbr and .cbt 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/T 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 various reasons. Their contents can be extracted by any utility that can read ZIP, RAR and TAR 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. CBT files derive from tar, tar.bz2 and tar.gz and are rarely used.The first comic produced specifically for this format was Saturn Knight, released in August 2006 by Jim Shelley and Pierre Villeneuve. A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to show its format. ...
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support: text in character sets other than US-ASCII; non-text attachments; multi-part message bodies; and header information in non-ASCII character sets. ...
A file archiver combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage. ...
The ZIP file format is a popular data compression and archival format. ...
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In computing, tar (derived from tape archive) is both file format (in the form of a type of archive bitstream) and the name of the program used to handle such files. ...
A filename extension or filename suffix is an extra set of (usually) alphanumeric characters that is appended to the end of a filename to allow computer users (as well as various pieces of software on the computer system) to quickly determine the type of data stored in the file. ...
CDisplay is a free sequential image viewing utility used in viewing images one at a time, or two at a time just like comic pages. ...
PNG may stand for: Persona non grata, literally meaning an unwelcome person, is a term used in diplomacy with a specialised and legally defined meaning. ...
JPG redirects here. ...
An example of a GIF image. ...
.BMP or . ...
“TIFF†redirects here. ...
Jim Shelley performing with his band, Book of Kills, sometime in 2003. ...
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Free Downloadable Examples of .CBZ and .CBR files
Viewers/Readers
Cross Platform - Comical Mac OS X and Windows comic book viewer. Can be compiled for Linux. [1]
- ComicViewer java-gnome software for Linux
- Jomic Java comic book viewer, converter
Windows - CDisplay Comic Reader, Homepage of CDisplay (Windows, no longer in development)
- CDisplayEx Open source CDisplay clone for Windows
- ComicRack Windows comic book viewer, collector, organizer, built on .NET
- GonVisor Windows comic book Viewer with new features
- Picwalker Windows comic book Viewer
Mac - ComicBookLover Mac OS X comic book viewer, collector, organizer
- FFView Mac OS X comic book viewer
- SimpleComic Mac OS X Comicbook (.cbr/ .cbz/ .pdf) reader; open-source (MIT license) from Dancing Tortoise Software.
Linux - cbrPager a simple comic book pager for Linux based on GTK+
- CBView gtk2-perl software for Linux
- cdisplay Shell script for Linux
- Comix Python gtk comic book viewer (intended for Unix like environments)
- Evince Gnome document viewer with optional support for comic book archive files
- QComicBook Qt comic book viewer
- ScansReader Linux/Unix Open source (C+X11) comic book viewer
- Okular Linux/Unix document viewer
- ComicMaster Linux comic book viewer, collector, organizer. Needs Qt 4.2. Might compile on Mac OS X.
Okular will be the document viewer for KDE 4. ...
Other - PSPComic comic book (.cbr/.cbz) reader for homebrew enabled Sony PSPs
- ComicBookDS comicbook (.cbr/.cbz) reader for homebrew enabled Nintendo DS.
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