What Programs Run CBR Files?
CBR stands for CDisplay RAR Archived Comic Book file. CBR files typically contain one or more images. Users create CBR files by compressing images into a single file, such as a RAR or a ZIP file, and then renaming that file with the CBR extension. Due to the simple nature of the file itself, you have several options for opening it.
Other People Are Reading
-
CDisplayEx
-
CDisplayEx opens CBR files and presents them in a slide-show format. You navigate the images in sequence, such as when you read a comic book, "turning pages" by scrolling to the end of one image to force the next image to appear. CDisplayEx functions allow you to choose what size to display the images or whether to display one or two at a time. You can also adjust colors, zoom in or view thumbnails.
Comical
-
Comical opens CBR files and displays the contained images in pairs. The software has a menu below the images that you can use to navigate the files, including moving to the next image, moving to the first or last image, or rotating images clockwise or counterclockwise. Comical allows you to decide at what size to view the images. Although Comical has fewer features than some other programs used to run CBR files, it works on the Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.
-
eComic
-
eComic opens CBR files and displays one image in the main viewing window and a list of thumbnails in a column on the right side of the interface. You can use the up and down keys to cycle through the images in sequence and the plus and minus keys to zoom in and out. Using the mouse wheel allows you to cycle through images. eComic requires you to have the .NET Framework version 4.0 installed on your computer before you install the software.
WinRAR
-
The WinRAR file archive utility allows you to create your own CBR files or extract images from them. You can access a CBR file by opening it in WinRAR and extracting its contents. The images contained in the CBR file will decompress in a folder created for them. From there, any graphics program will allow you to view the files. Other data-compression utilities work with CBR files similarly to how WinRAR does.
-
