I have many comics in jpg format (or cbr/cbz formats)

I wish to convert them in PDF format so I can easely read them on Ipad

The softs I tried till now, make the conversion in opposite order (page one becomes last page .....)So I have to rearrange all the pages on PC for each book before downloading on Ipad

I can alternatively download individually each jpg in GoodReader on Ipad but I have to re assemble them in a book,

Both these method are loooong processes (I have more than 1000 comic books).

I have the paper version of them too (partly in Thailand) but it is not convenient to read in plane or taxi....(some books are more than 50 years old)

Any advice would be welcome

It might help if you would tell us how the JPG files are named. First page ... Last Page.

And in what order they are stored. When right clicking in the folder with Windows Explorer choose sort by>name. It should show the order they are stored rather than a sorted order.

I forgot to ask... What operating system are you using where the jpg files are stored?

Edited May 24, 201115 yr by BB1950

I am on Win XP SP3

some files are front.jpg;01.jpg;etc

or Front.jpg;00.jpg;01.jpg;etc

or comic title_00.jpg;comic title_01.jpg;(for double page)comic title_02-03.jpg;etc

some are comic title-00.jpg;etc

or 00-cover.JPG;01.JPG;......

I found some answers.

Why convert to PDF when it is so much easier and faster to archive the JPG files? Plus you would wouldn't degrade the image quality by converting them to PDF.

CloudReaders is a free book/comic viewer, fully optimized for iPad (and now supports iPhone/iPod touch too!). It supports PDF, CBZ, ZIP, CBR and RAR formats.

If the JPG files are sequentially numbered or sequential alpha-numeric order (i.e. 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003.jpg, etc... ), you can easily archive them into a zip or rar archive format and the pages will be in stored and viewed in order. Unfortunately if the pages are not sequentially numbered (i.e. someone scanned the pages out of order or non-sequential alpha-numeric order), you will have to manually rename them to put them in the correct order. To my knowledge, there is no software capable of doing that.

In your examples:

front.jpg; 01.jpg; etc - you could rename front.jpg to 00.jpg, 00-front.jpg, or 00.front.jpg to get it in the front, otherwise it would be at the back.

But the rest should be stored in the proper order in the archive file.

You can always review the result in the archive listing.

See this link:

Make Your Own CBZ and CBR Digital Comic Books

BTW,

A CBR file is a RAR archive file. You can convert between the two by renaming the file extension.

A CBZ file is a ZIP archive file. You can convert between the two by renaming the file extension.

If you want a PDF format there are plenty of CBR/CBZ to PDF converters (They will maintain page order).

There are also plenty of CBR/CBZ viewers for the PC. If the viewer has a print option, you could also print it to a virtual PDF printer.

Just Google for them.

Because the page is stored in the archive by page order. The output will be in page order. However converting them to PDF files may cause quality of image to decrease (depending on the conversion method).

Thanks a lot BB1950.I will try the paths you give me :jap:

CloudReaders is nearly exactly what I needed

Very simple to use and very quick to download files to the Ipad

I convert the jpg to ZIP with Power Archiver Professional (batch conversion) and it groups the files of the same folder in the same archive,It even can add subfolders to separate the archives automaticaly.

Only minus point of Cloudreaders comparing to GoodReaders:It seems it cannot have a hierarchy (all the Batman books in a Batman folder for example).Will have to scroll down in the app to find books like in a bookshelf

Thanks again BB1950

CloudReaders is nearly exactly what I needed

Very simple to use and very quick to download files to the Ipad

I convert the jpg to ZIP with Power Archiver Professional (batch conversion) and it groups the files of the same folder in the same archive,It even can add subfolders to separate the archives automaticaly.

Only minus point of Cloudreaders comparing to GoodReaders:It seems it cannot have a hierarchy (all the Batman books in a Batman folder for example).Will have to scroll down in the app to find books like in a bookshelf

Thanks again BB1950

Why don't you offer some feedback to the author of CloudReaders? I seem to recall reading that the author was responsive to feedback and accepting suggestions to improve the application.

Good idea;will do it

I always put all images in a word file, then use nemopdf to convert it to pdf format.