RB to VIFF Converter

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Legacy to Visualization

Move content from dead RB ebooks into VIFF — a format built for image analysis and scientific visualization workflows.

Effortless Workflow

No software to install, no accounts required. Upload your RB file, choose VIFF, and download the result in moments.

Automatic File Cleanup

Your uploaded RB files are erased immediately after conversion. VIFF results are removed from servers within 24 hours.

How to convert RB to VIFF

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose viff or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your viff file right afterwards

About formats

RB is the native ebook format of the Rocket eBook, one of the first commercially available dedicated e-reading devices, developed by NuvoMedia and released in October 1998. Founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning — who later co-founded Tesla Motors — NuvoMedia designed the Rocket eBook as a handheld device with a reflective LCD screen, capable of storing approximately ten books in its internal memory. The RB format packages HTML-based content along with embedded images, metadata, and a table of contents into a single binary container optimized for the device's limited hardware. Content was purchased and downloaded through NuvoMedia's RocketLibrarian desktop software. A notable advantage of the format was its early support for bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookups, and adjustable font sizing — features now standard on modern e-readers but revolutionary in the late 1990s. The Rocket eBook demonstrated viable commercial demand for dedicated reading devices, paving the way for subsequent platforms from Sony, Amazon, and others. NuvoMedia was acquired by Gemstar-TV Guide International in 2000, which discontinued the device line in 2003. While RB files are largely a historical curiosity today, they can be converted to modern formats using ebook management tools, and the format remains significant as a pioneering chapter in the evolution of digital reading.
Developer: NuvoMedia
Initial release: 1998
VIFF (Visualization Image File Format) is a scientific image format developed by Khoral Research (originally at the University of New Mexico), first appearing around 1990 with the Khoros visual programming environment for image processing and data visualization. VIFF files use a 1024-byte header followed by optional color map data, and the image data itself, with the header containing detailed specifications: data storage type (bit, byte, short, integer, float, double, complex), data encoding (none, CCITT Group 3/4), color space model (none, generic, RGB, HSI, CMYK, and others), and support for multi-band (multi-channel) images with arbitrary numbers of bands. The format accommodates one-dimensional signals, two-dimensional images, three-dimensional volumes, and location data (sparse pixel coordinates), making it versatile beyond simple image storage. VIFF was designed for the Khoros/VisiQuest visual dataflow programming environment, where users constructed image processing pipelines by connecting processing nodes in a graphical canvas — an approach that influenced later systems like AVS, MATLAB Simulink, and LabVIEW. One advantage is scientific data fidelity: VIFF supports the full range of numeric types used in scientific computing (including complex numbers and double-precision floats), stores multi-band datasets natively, and carries calibration metadata — making it suitable for remote sensing, medical imaging, and spectral analysis applications where generic image formats lose information. The format's connection to the Khoros visual programming paradigm provides another notable dimension — VIFF was the standard I/O format for one of the most influential early visual programming environments for scientific image analysis. VIFF files can be read by ImageMagick and legacy Khoros/VisiQuest installations.
Developer: Khoral Research
Initial release: 1990

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert RB to VIFF?

RB is an obsolete 1998 ebook format no modern device reads. VIFF output lets you capture page imagery for Khoros visualization pipelines.

What programs open VIFF files?

Khoros/VisiQuest, ImageMagick, and scientific visualization tools support the VIFF image format natively.

Does the conversion keep page quality?

Yes — Convertio renders RB page content at full quality before encoding it into the VIFF visualization format.

How large are the output VIFF files?

VIFF is an uncompressed format, so output files may be larger than the original RB. Exact size depends on page dimensions.

Can I convert multiple RB files?

Absolutely. Upload several RB files and convert them all to VIFF in one session on Convertio for free.