Convert comics to PDF

Turn a comic book archive (.cbz, .cbr, .cb7, .cbt) or an archive of images into a PDF with one page per image, from SumatraPDF or from the command line.

Available in pre-release 3.7

Open the .cbz and use File → Convert to PDF… to get one PDF with every page. At a glance:

In SumatraPDF: Convert to PDF… (CmdConvertToPDF) — all pages to one PDF.
Command line: sumatrapdf-tool convert -O compress -o book.pdf comic.cbz

This restores the pre–3.5 comic → PDF workflow (issues #4118, #5532).

Convert in SumatraPDF #

Open the comic (see Comics and manga).
Start Convert to PDF… in any of these ways:
- File → Convert to PDF…
- Right-click the document → Document → Convert to PDF…
- Ctrl + K, Convert To PDF in Command Palette
A dialog shows the source path and a suggested destination:
- Default path is the same location and base name with a .pdf extension.
- If that file already exists, the name is made unique (e.g. book.1.pdf).
- Edit the path in the text field, or use … to browse.
Click Convert to PDF. On success the new PDF is written and opened in SumatraPDF. On failure you get a short error dialog.

Press Esc or Cancel to close the dialog without converting.

What can be converted:

Source	Examples
Comic book archives	`.cbz`, `.cbr`, `.cbt`, `.cb7`, `.ora`
Archives of images	`.zip`, `.rar`, `.7z`, `.tar` that contain images

JPEG and PNG pages are embedded as-is, other image formats are losslessly re-encoded; see how images are stored in the PDF.

Convert from the command line #

Use sumatrapdf-tool.exe convert, or SumatraPDF.exe convert with the same arguments:

sumatrapdf-tool convert -O compress -o book.pdf comic.cbz

Works for .cbz, .cb7 and .cbt.
-O compress compresses the image data. Without it PNG pages are stored uncompressed and the PDF gets much bigger. JPEG pages are always embedded as-is.
Add a page range to convert only part of the comic: sumatrapdf-tool convert -O compress -o chapter1.pdf comic.cbz 1-24

More options: sumatrapdf-tool convert.

Convert in SumatraPDF #

Convert from the command line #

See also #