Joe Pfeiffer: > Ben Finney: > > Dan Ritter: > > > 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". > > > > Bah, you're right. This is a long-standing request (since 2008!) in > > the Gnome BTS > > <URL:https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=539347>. > > > > The sticking point appears to be that Evince fundamentally assumes > > the document naturally has pages, whereas EPub presents a continuous > > document. No-one has suggested a good resolution to that. > > This surprises me. I'd expect the sticking point to be that the > actual content in an EPUB is HTML, and evince doesn't do HTML.
MuPDF does EPUB as well as HTML, which indicates that this could be true. From the description: "MuPDF is a document viewer that can show PDF, XPS, EPUB, XHTML, CBZ, and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF."
