
I *have* used multiple search engines an to find those programs and have exhausted all possible combinations of search terms. I *have* tried to find programs that will work. I suggest that you re-read my original post. You are forcing me to go into far too much detail that you should already be aware of. rar file won't reduce their size appreciably.

cbr file are already compressed and putting them in a. Most file types used for the images in a. Regarding your last sentence, I have no idea what you're talking about. It would be a good thing if there were another freeware option out there that worked, but I've looked and can find nothing. Also, I don't really understand how to use the last, weird script thing either. I can't get either of the first two to work and neither has a help file. There are a few programs out there that are supposed to streamline the process:Īnd this weird script thing that requires payware with it: Unfortunately though, even if you batch process the images it's a tedious job if you have a lot of. jpg compression ratio of 75% works good too. I've determined that setting the height to around 1500 pixels OR the width to about 1000 pixels and maintaining the aspect ratio makes the image about the right size for viewing for most comic books. What does work though, is to extract all the. cbX files to make them appreciably smaller.

jpg files are already compressed image files, you really can't increase the compression on the. You can easily start wanting more storage space if you have a lot of very large comic book files. This increased image size usually means that the resulting. Most people who do the scanning do a really fine job, but the images they produce are are often fairly large for better detail. jpg images (.png and other image file formats are also used, but not as often), each image being a scanned page of the comic book, sometimes a combination of two pages.

rar files with their extensions changed to. cbr files (henceforth, jointly referred to as ".cbX" files.) Comic book files are merely. The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.I have some comic book files that are just too large and would really like to reduce their file size. Contributingīug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at. Use -o option if you want to specify output file manually. You can also specify author and title for metadata that will be embedded in the epub file:Ĭbr_to_epub -i input.cbr -title "Batman 1" -author "Comic Book Guy" In order to use it, make sure you have unrar installed in your system. The tool has been written for and tested on macOS, so if you want to use it on other platforms you'll need to port Input::CbrExtractor and Output::EpubCompressor classes, as they rely on shell utilities for macOS system. This may come in handy if you want to be able to read them on your iPad.
