Comments on: Read and Epub and beyond http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/06/18/read-and-epub-and-beyond/ The weekend hacker's musings... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Sayamindu Dasgupta: Read and Epub and beyond | Full-Linux.com http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/06/18/read-and-epub-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-87010 Sayamindu Dasgupta: Read and Epub and beyond | Full-Linux.com Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:05:46 +0000 http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/?p=418#comment-87010 [...] related to your search Sayamindu Dasgupta: Read and Epub and beyond is now available in this link…: News [...] [...] related to your search Sayamindu Dasgupta: Read and Epub and beyond is now available in this link…: News [...]

]]> By: Sayamindu http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/06/18/read-and-epub-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-87009 Sayamindu Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:28:52 +0000 http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/?p=418#comment-87009 @Mike: We already have a FBReader Activity. However, it only supports a subset of CSS, which makes some books look odd. @David: I looked into the possibility of doing that. However, the lack of clear pagination and the relative difficulty of getting stock Mozilla/Webkit to render to a cairo image surface makes it difficult. Evince seems to expect documents with well defined pages. Regarding HTML rendering to an image, maybe once Mozilla headless becomes mainstream, we can revisit the problem. @Mike: We already have a FBReader Activity. However, it only supports a subset of CSS, which makes some books look odd.

@David: I looked into the possibility of doing that. However, the lack of clear pagination and the relative difficulty of getting stock Mozilla/Webkit to render to a cairo image surface makes it difficult. Evince seems to expect documents with well defined pages. Regarding HTML rendering to an image, maybe once Mozilla headless becomes mainstream, we can revisit the problem.

]]> By: David Prieto http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/06/18/read-and-epub-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-87008 David Prieto Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:12:45 +0000 http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/?p=418#comment-87008 Instead of developing an all-new epub reader for gnome, wouldn't it be a better approach to add epub support to Evince? Instead of developing an all-new epub reader for gnome, wouldn’t it be a better approach to add epub support to Evince?

]]> By: Mike http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/2009/06/18/read-and-epub-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-87007 Mike Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:30:33 +0000 http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings/?p=418#comment-87007 An alternative approach would be to write a sugar based front-end to FBReader (http://www.fbreader.org). That way you'll get fairly complete epub support along with support for a whole host of other common formats as well. An alternative approach would be to write a sugar based front-end to FBReader (http://www.fbreader.org).

That way you’ll get fairly complete epub support along with support for a whole host of other common formats as well.

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