Re: [evince] epub format

[Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>]

Is there a bug on bugzilla with this info? It seems really useful!

On 09/17/2014 11:46 AM, jose aliste gmail com wrote:
> 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).
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> Greetings
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> José
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> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:07 AM, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 gmail com
> <mailto:shirishag75 gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     at bottom :-
>
>     On 9/14/14, King White <whitebbking gmail com
>     <mailto: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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