How to convert CBZ & CBR files to PDF

Author: Samer

I noticed some users looking for this, so here’s how to convert CBZ and CBR ebook files into PDF.

  1. Rename the files so that the .CBZ and .CBR extentions are changed to .ZIP and .RAR, respectively
  2. Decompress these into a folder; any of these freeware programs will do this: Extractnow, 7-Zip, TugZip, and Filzip.Print Multiple Images in XP screenshot
  3. Install a PDF virtual printer. I recommend the free PrimoPDF because it provides multiple print quality options.
  4. Open the newly created folder, select all image files, and print all of these collectively. These will print in alphabetical sort order, which is exactly the order CBZ and CBR files are displayed in CDisplay and other readers; see screenshot for how you can do this. More instructions on printing images en- masse in XP can be found here. Another way to print collectively is through your image viewing program, as most support this functionality.
  5. Navigate XP’s photo printing wizard. You probably want the Full Page Fax Print, to guarantee that nothing is cropped out of the images. Make sure to send to the virtual PrimoPDF printer.
  6. Once the PrimoPDF quality options are displayed, select the quality that you want. Unless you want a smaller PDF than the original CBZ or CBR file, the “prepress” quality setting will give you the highest quality setting, which should generate a file size roughly equivalent to the original.
  7. That’s it, you’re done.

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25 Comments so far

  1. daimond d on March 9th, 2007

    cool… simple and straight to the point

  2. mfakih on March 29th, 2007

    Thank you very much. It couldn’t guess the solution is just by a simple extension rename. It works. I tested it.

  3. Quinbus Flestrin on April 9th, 2007

    Outstanding!
    Simply Outstanding!
    Thank you.

    QF

  4. nass on April 26th, 2007

    this was very helpful.
    thank you very very very much.

  5. some guy on May 23rd, 2007

    Worked like a charm. Thanks!

  6. Anonymous on July 10th, 2007

    You idiot, just use Manga2eBook, it does all the stuff in a click -_-

  7. Sirish on September 16th, 2007

    Great. Thanks

  8. ----- on September 16th, 2007

    as anonymous said…. use manga2ebook to do all this kind of stuff….

    http://kmfstudio.com/new_manga2ebook_version.html

  9. NO 1 on September 30th, 2007

    Are you sure this cannot be done from CDisplay directly into Adobe Acrobat?

  10. spiteanymus on December 26th, 2007

    thanks you very much it help a lot…

  11. John Patrick on January 1st, 2008

    TNX! I can now extract cbz files!

  12. gr on January 10th, 2008

    where can i fin it?

  13. Christopher on January 11th, 2008

    Don’t rename all those .cbr and .cbz files, that’s a waste of time, just change the association of those extentions to winrar (or whatever extraction file you use) and then they will be automatically opened by that program.

    To do this, right click on any .cbr file and choose “Properties” at the bottom. Then click on “Change…” which is beside “Opens with:” and select YOUR program from the list.

    Repeat with any .cbz file and you’re done.

    Every time you download any of those files they will be automatically associated. No need rename all those files, or even run a batch program to rename them.

  14. Amy on February 7th, 2008

    Thanks a bunch Christopher!!! That was a life saver! So simple and quick! =^)

  15. Manoj on March 18th, 2008

    Hi,

    Best/simplest option I’ve found–Comic Rack. A very nice ecomic reader in its own right, it also neatly saves the CBR/CBZ to PDF with one click. No muss, no fuss.

    http://comicrack.cyolito.com/

    Best
    Manoj

  16. Snooping on March 21st, 2008

    Gracias hermano

  17. Gabe on April 22nd, 2008

    THX wery much.

  18. turbopidar on April 25th, 2008

    You can find the files shared on uploading sites that the other crawlers miss here megaupload files

  19. Hexagon on April 30th, 2008

    thanks alot got about 50 files to do that to :/ anyone know a batch command to convert all files ??

  20. Prav.nj on May 6th, 2008

    “”Don’t rename all those .cbr and .cbz files, that’s a waste of time”"

    I agree. Any good rar/zip etc opening and extracting software will be able to extract .cbr/.cbz.

    IZarc works the best. Download it for free at:

    http://www.izarc.org/

    Excellent piece of software. I haven’t tried the batch conversion yet though.

    Once IZarc is installed just open the .cbz/.cbr in IZarc and extract. All the pages will be extracted in JPEG format (sequentially) [Or just right click on the required file and select "extract to.." or "extract"]

    Then get yourself a free PDF printer [PDF creator would work or of course PrimoPDF!] or if you use Nitro PDF [not freeware] like me just convert the series of JPEGS to PDF. Done!

    Dont waste time changing the file extension!

  21. Oroboros on May 30th, 2008

    ugh. Why anyone would want to ruin a cbr or cbz by converting it to the bloated pdf format is beyond me. Just say no!

  22. Smart Ass on June 2nd, 2008

    Oroboros, you smart ass! They change it so they can easily use it.. Some people don’t know what to do with a cbr or cbz file..

  23. Mike.y on June 2nd, 2008

    Yeah, that’s more logical. Oroboros is a fag

  24. this didnt work on June 24th, 2008

    You suck it messed up my whole comp

  25. PDF is better on August 24th, 2008

    You can view a PDF file as a thumbnail in a folder. That makes it worth it for me.

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