On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:34:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Kushal Kumaran <kus...@locationd.net> writes: > > > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > > > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> writes: > > > > > >> However, you probably don't need to go that far. EPUB is HTML > > >> in a ZIP file. Unzip it, then deal with HTML as you wish. > > > > > > Many EPub files that I find, don't open correctly in Evince (the default > > > Gnome document viewer). Are there various formats that call themselves > > > EPub? > > > > evince cannot handle epub (application/epub+zip). > > Okay. How is that different from the format described above: “EPub is > HTML in a Zip file”? That's what I would expect as > “application/epub+zip”.
evince cannot handle epub at all. Your statement about "many epub files don't open correctly in evince" should read "no epub files are opened by evince". evince handles PDF. PS, TIFF (including FAX multipage TIFF), djvu and DVI. HTML is not among those. You can point any web browser at the interior of an unzipped epub. If you use Firefox, you can install the EPUBReader extension and that does a pretty good job on straight epub files. -dsr-
