Making a Comic Book Archive

Overview

Instructions on how to make a comic book archive file for viewing in a comics viewer app like Comic Zeal.

Process

Creating the archive

The thing to remember is that comic book archives are simply .zip, .tar or .rar archives renamed with a different file extension.

• .cb7 → 7z
• .cba → ACE
• .cbr → RAR
• .cbt → TAR
• .cbz → ZIP

• Select a series of PNG or JPEG image files and create a zip archive.
• Rename the archive with a .cbz file extension.

Extracting images from a PDF

• Open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat (not Acrobat Reader).
• File > Save As...
• Save as PNG or JPEG.

See also [Comic Book Archive article]