Creatin' PDFs or CBR files

[Guest s1500]

Is there a tutorial on here on how to create PDFs or CBR files for that final step in magazine scannin?

[E-Day]

There will be for, CBR at least. I am currently working on some guides.

[KiwiArcader]

Creating PDF's requires 3rd party software unlike CBR's which are merely a renamed rar or zip file. I use Adobe Acrobat which is not cheap. And as I am the only one supplying PDF's and I am hosting them on my personal MU account I'm not actually sure the need is there for a guide?

I don't think anyone ever signed off officially on PDF's to be honest. I sorta railroaded them into the site.

[E-Day]

For CBRs, once you've edited and renamed your files and added the thank you page, select them all and sip them into an archive. Then change the .zip to .cbr and you're done.

[Schloss Ritter]

Technically, a .zip would be renamed to .cbz, while .rar files are renamed to .cbr

Normally, it wouldn't make a difference, but there are cases where it does.

[E-Day]

Thus far I haven't heard of any problems with mine, which are always zips renamed to cbr.

[badinsults]

  On 6/21/2010 at 10:11 PM, E-Day said:

Thus far I haven't heard of any problems with mine, which are always zips renamed to cbr.

In Linux (specifically Gnome), if you have a zip file labeled as a CBR file, Document Viewer (the default document reader) will not open it, and it does not show a proper preview icon. It is a good policy to have a proper extension. It is kind of a hassle to have to rename things.

[Areala]

  On 6/21/2010 at 10:11 PM, E-Day said:

Thus far I haven't heard of any problems with mine, which are always zips renamed to cbr.

I've had problems with Comical, my image reader, fussing when a .cbr contains a .zip instead of a .rar. A quick rename to .cbz fixes it, but it caused me no end of hassles with re-downloading large files assuming there was some corruption issue when, in fact, it was just a mis-named extension.

*huggles*

Areala

[Bablefish]

One of the easiest way to create a PDF is with Open Office

http://www.openoffice.org/

Then there is Easy PDF, which several manual sites reccomend

http://www.pdfdesk.com/

Question: All you need to do is change the file extension to create a cbr file?

[Areala]

  On 7/10/2010 at 10:08 PM, Bablefish said:

Question: All you need to do is change the file extension to create a cbr file?

Correct. Once you've created a ZIP or RAR archive, simply edit the file name and change the extension to .cbz (for a ZIP file) or .crb (for a RAR file), and you have a Comic Book Reader format file!

*huggles*

Areala

[Bablefish]

Thanks for the info and your right I found a bit more at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_reader