Comic book archive files are not a distinct file format only the file name extension differs from a standard file of the given archive type. In addition, folders may be used to group images. Occasionally GIF, BMP, and TIFF files are seen. Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a fixed-layout flat document, including the text, fonts, graphics, and other information needed to display it.Ĭomic book archive files mainly consist of image files, typically PNG (lossless compression) or JPEG (lossy compression) files, stored as a single archive file.
The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. The idea was made popular by the CDisplay sequential image viewer since then, many viewers for different platforms have been created. Application/pdf, application/x-pdf, application/x-bzpdf, application/x-gzpdfĪ comic book archive or comic book reader file (also called sequential image file) is a type of archive file for sequential viewing of images, commonly for comic books.