Re: Comic Book Format support

[Paul Coates <Paul Coates ncl ac uk>]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 18:58 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Paul Coates <Paul Coates ncl ac uk> writes:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > It's been suggested I bring this up on the mailing list for discussion,
> > so here goes. I have added a patch to bugzilla [1] to add support for
> > CBR and CBZ files to evince. These are formats used by Comical [2] and
> > other comic book readers to store comic books but can be used to store
> > other image based documents. CBR is basically a rar file containing
> > image files and CBZ is the same but using zip. I've made a screenshot
> > [3] showing the patch in use.
> > 
> > Is this sort of thing wanted in evince?
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Sorry for the delay in replying.  I've had a few busy days here and
> didn't get a chance to get around to this email.  A couple of comments
> on this issue:
> 
> 1) I think that putting a CBR reader in evince is Okay.  It's a little
>    bit iffy, but is basically a close enough fit that I'm okay with it.
> 
> 2) The patch itself needs some work.  In particular, the tmp-file
>    handling is wrong, we need more robust error checking, etc.  I will
>    try to comment on that in the bug.

I want to code this the right way, so any feedback would be great.

> 3) Over time, we've been modifying EvDocument.h to accommodate the needs
>    of evince.  I don't expect this to be a big burden, but do you think
>    you'll be able to keep it in sync?  Basically, every backend needs a
>    'maintainer' of some kind, for if/when things change.

No problem.

Paul

> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
> 

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Paul Coates
Computing Officer, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne