Stymied by CBR/CBZ issue...

[InfinityComics]

I have formed a comic book company with some friends a year and a half ago. We finally completed our debut issue and despite some mistakes by the letterer people are pleased!

So far we've released it into a PDF format and a SWF (which emulates page flipping action) but most of digi-comic readers d/l issues which either CBZ or CBR. The problem is that in such formats, a few pages of the first story is somehow mixed in with the other pages.

I've checked the resolution, file size, even tried many, *many*, MANY variants of the *.JPEGS (01.jpeg, HC_issue_01_page_01, etc etc etc etc ETC ETC...) but still, the problem continues to mock me.

I've been to at least 4 comic book forums (even Comixology) but no one has a solution. Some have d/l'ed the CBZ/CBR and tried fixing it after extracting the pages but to no avail.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

[Hellmark]

Can you give us a listing of the archive's file contents? Usually this issues is strictly related to the filename structure.

Personally, I'd love a version of CBZ/CBR that is a bit more ePub like, with a Table of contents and meta info stored in it as well. Would really take care of stuff like this.

[InfinityComics]

Of course! Here is the latest attempt at a rename. Using the Windows method. And yet in a PDF and SWF, the comic comes out fine!

[InfinityComics]

but once it hits CBZ or CBR... poof. Disorder and chaos :\

[ilovejedd]

Since CBZ/CBR are just ZIP/RAR files containing a bunch of pages, sounds to me you're encountering file naming issues. Try to keep your file naming standardized (including cases as some readers are case-sensitive).

For example:

HC_issue_001_cover.jpg
HC_issue_001_p001.jpg
...
HC_issue_001_p032.jpg

HC_issue_002_cover.jpg
HC_issue_002_p001.jpg
...
HC_issue_002_p028.jpg

[InfinityComics]

First thing I did :\

Originally Posted by ilovejedd

Since CBZ/CBR are just ZIP/RAR files containing a bunch of pages, sounds to me you're encountering file naming issues. Try to keep your file naming standardized (including cases as some readers are case-sensitive).

For example:

HC_issue_001_cover.jpg
HC_issue_001_p001.jpg
...
HC_issue_001_p032.jpg

HC_issue_002_cover.jpg
HC_issue_002_p001.jpg
...
HC_issue_002_p028.jpg

[toddos]

There's your problem. If a reader sorts alphabetically rather than numerically (and many will), your page numbers will look like:

1
10
11
12
...
2
20
21
22
...
3

And so on. Pad your page numbers with 0s as needed. 01, 02, 03, etc. Or even 001, 002, 003, if you expect to have 100s of pages in the book.

[InfinityComics]

I have tried 01, 001, HC_issue01_page01, and so on and forth. There is no exaggeration on my part when I Say I've tried at least 20 variants of the renaming

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by InfinityComics

That explains why it's not in order. Get rid of the parenthesis. Some comic reader apps don't handle those well. Also, use 2- or 3-digit page numbering. Not all reading systems use natural sorting so the order in which those are displayed may be as follows (based on string comparison):

HeroChronicles_page_ (1)
HeroChronicles_page_ (10)
HeroChronicles_page_ (11)
...
HeroChronicles_page_ (19)
HeroChronicles_page_ (2)
HeroChronicles_page_ (20)
HeroChronicles_page_ (21)
...

[InfinityComics]

Like I mentioned before, "Here is the latest attempt at a rename. Using the Windows method"

Originally Posted by toddos

There's your problem. If a reader sorts alphabetically rather than numerically (and many will), your page numbers will look like:

1
10
11
12
...
2
20
21
22
...
3

And so on. Pad your page numbers with 0s as needed. 01, 02, 03, etc. Or even 001, 002, 003, if you expect to have 100s of pages in the book.

[InfinityComics]

repeated

[InfinityComics]

Here is what I mentioned before w/regards to renumbering.

Originally Posted by InfinityComics

I've checked the resolution, file size, even tried many, *many*, MANY variants of the *.JPEGS (01.jpeg, HC_issue_01_page_01, etc etc etc etc ETC ETC...) but still, the problem continues to mock me.

[Hellmark]

Would you mind if I took a crack at it?

[InfinityComics]

who wants a crack at it? I can send them the PDF, SWF and the CBZ file.

[InfinityComics]

sure thing! gimme a few moments!