Re: needed support of formats cbt, cba and cb7

[Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 gmail com>]

El vie, 10-07-2009 a las 04:54 +0100, Paulo Silva escribió:

Hi Paulo,

> it seems to .cbr and .cbz are very popular as comicbook formats
> but in other side, some Linux purists are more comfortable with .tar
> files, which .cbt would fit better
> 
> i can recall in a Tokamak2 development meeting, this guy
> http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/ struggled a lot when trying to help
> a presentation of this one http://blog.karlitschek.de/ which had pages
> in separated picture files, which a comicbook would help a lot, and
> Pinheiro didn't have the zip and rar compressors installed that
> time...

I open a bug for adding support for cbt files [1]. I like the idea of
this format because tar is a very common command and compression is not
very needed because the image formats usually include a decent
compression rate. 

I hope to write a patch pretty soon ;)

> anyway, i were seeing from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Archive_file the files .cbt,
> .cba and .cb7 are also usual, even knowing they are rare, but at least
> the .cbt support could be useful on Linux users...

cb7 support was added recently [1]. You need a program from the p7zip
family installed (7zr, 7za or 7z).

I'm not quite sure if support for cba files is a must have. As rar, ace
is a propietaty format, but it is very uncommon IMHO. Anyway, feel free
to open a bug if you think is a desirable feature for evince.

Thanks for your interest on evince ;)

    -- Juanjo Marín

[1]
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588266
[2]
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/evince/commit/?id=5e2d5f13c109d67fb653f6172b6d3bfc6798dfcf