Re: CHM support possible?

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 11:00 +0100, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> 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 :)

PDF has hyperlinks and EvDocument has some support for it (I'm not
entirely happy with, it could use work...).

With 1 page I mean in an html you dont have numbered pages, like in a
book.

Marco