Re: needed support of formats cbt, cba and cb7

[Paulo Silva <nitrofurano gmail com>]

thank you! having expectations about next versions so! thanks!

On 7/10/09, Juanjo Marin <juanjomarin96 gmail com> wrote:
> 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
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