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00 CBR → PDF

CBR to PDF

The RAR-based comic format, opened here and put into a PDF.

Drop files or a folder here

or choose from your device · paste with ⌘V / Ctrl+V

.cbr .rar

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72 points is an inch. 56 is about 2 cm, which is a normal book margin.

Used to open the archive in this tab. It is never transmitted.

  • No upload The conversion runs in this tab. Your file never travels — not to us, and not to the advertising.
  • No sign-up, no email, no daily cap There is no account system to sign up to.
  • No size limit we invented Only your device's memory — about ~2 GB on a desktop browser, ~400 MB on a phone.
  • Turn your Wi-Fi off and convert anyway The conversion needs nothing but this page. Ads will not load without a connection; your file will still convert. That is the whole claim, and it takes five seconds to check.

A CBR is a RAR full of page images, and RAR is the reason it is awkward: it is proprietary, so plenty of comic readers cannot open one. This reads it here in the tab and writes a PDF with one page per image.

Why CBR is the awkward one

CBZ is a ZIP and CBR is a RAR. Everything opens a ZIP; RAR needs an unrar library with licensing restrictions, which is exactly why several open-source and iOS readers support CBZ and not CBR.

libarchive reads it here — the same library bsdtar uses — so no WinRAR is needed and nothing is uploaded. If you want a comic archive rather than a PDF, CBR to CBZ does the same reading and writes the container every reader supports.

Nothing is re-encoded, and that is the whole point

A comic archive holds one image per page. PDF stores JPEG and PNG natively, so each page goes in exactly as it was stored — no decode, no recompression, no quality slider, because there is nothing to set.

A converter that offers you a quality option for this is decoding your artwork and compressing it again for no reason. The result here is bit-for-bit the pages you started with, in a container more things open.

Page order

Pages are ordered by filename, read the way a person reads numbers rather than the way a computer sorts strings — page-2 before page-10, which plain alphabetical sorting gets backwards.

If the pages were already misordered inside the archive, they will be misordered in the PDF. Renaming files to guess at the intended order would be a worse surprise than reproducing what is there.

Why convert at all

A CBZ is better than a PDF for reading comics: readers handle it natively, page turns are instant and file sizes are smaller. Convert when something you need will only take a PDF — an e-reader, a printer, a courseware system, a submission form.

Choose "page exactly the size of each image" for reading on a screen, and a paper size if it is going to be printed on paper.

Other names for this

Also searched as “comic rar to pdf”, “cbr converter”, “comic book rar to pdf”.

Questions

Do I need WinRAR?
No. The RAR is read in this tab. Nothing is installed and nothing is uploaded.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The PDF is built in this tab and handed to you as a download. That matters here more than most places: the documents people convert to PDF are contracts, CVs, medical letters and manuscripts.
Should I convert to PDF or to CBZ?
CBZ if you are going to read it in a comic reader — smaller, faster, and supported everywhere. PDF when something will only accept a PDF.
Can I convert several files at once?
Yes. Drop as many as you like, or a whole folder. Each becomes its own PDF keeping its original name.