Re: CHM support possible?

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben Lambda1 be>]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:46 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:33 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am wondering if the architecture of Evince makes it possible to add
> > CHM (the windows help files) support. These are basically compressed
> > HTML files, so the question is rather whether it would be possible to
> > view HTML based documents.
> > 
> > How hard would it be to add a HTML renderer in Evince? This seems like a
> > fun project, but I have no clue whether the Evince architecture even
> > makes it possible to do such a thing. Is Evince an all-around document
> > viewer, or one for postscript based file formats?
> 
> It should be possible, yeah. The only big difference I can think of is
> that html documents doesnt have pages. Though you could just treat it
> like a 1 page document...

However, then you lose all the benefits of the hyperlinks from within
the CHM files. Perhaps it would be easier to write a CHM to PDF convert
tool :)

> In general you need to be able to implement this interface:
> 
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evince/backend/ev-document.h?
> rev=1.14&view=markup



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