Re: [evince] epub format

["jose aliste gmail com" <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hi, it's a pity. yes. The reality being we don't have any developer interested in spending the time to do the support until yest. There are two possibilities in case someone would want to work on it: 

1) there is a new thing called Gnome Books (done by a SoC intern), based on Gnome-Documents that can reads epubs. eventually this could be converted into a new Widget to read Epubs, and eventually could be integrated with evince, but this is not trivial amount of work, as most of gnome books is done in _javascript_ I believe. 

 

2) Mate desktop has Atril, which started as a fork of Evince 2.32. In a SoC project for Mate, epub support was added to Atril (i believe this is still not merged into master repository of atril). Since the libview, libdocument and backend parts of atril are mostly the same as in Evince, these patches could be eventually reworked so they can be added to evince (the main difference is that atril supports gtk2 and gtk3, so someone would need to remove all the gtk-version checks from the patches before submitting them for inclusion in evince).

Greetings

José

 

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:07 AM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 gmail com> wrote:

at bottom :-

On 9/14/14, King White <whitebbking gmail com> wrote:
> Starting to look like a good replacement for several viewers I use. Just
> need epub support too. Has it been thought about to include?

Hi all,
AFAIK this is one of the most often requested feature on various IRC
rooms/channels, forums and elsewhere. The pity is it's not there
either on the Evince roadmap, nor this query has been addressed one
way or the other in the FAQ of the project page. I hate okular and
would have liked to have evince handle .epubs but as it doesn't am
left to handle .epubs with okular.
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