On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 18:58 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote: > Paul Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi guys, > > > > It's been suggested I bring this up on the mailing list for discussion, > > so here goes. I have added a patch to bugzilla [1] to add support for > > CBR and CBZ files to evince. These are formats used by Comical [2] and > > other comic book readers to store comic books but can be used to store > > other image based documents. CBR is basically a rar file containing > > image files and CBZ is the same but using zip. I've made a screenshot > > [3] showing the patch in use. > > > > Is this sort of thing wanted in evince? > > Hi Paul, > > Sorry for the delay in replying. I've had a few busy days here and > didn't get a chance to get around to this email. A couple of comments > on this issue: > > 1) I think that putting a CBR reader in evince is Okay. It's a little > bit iffy, but is basically a close enough fit that I'm okay with it. > > 2) The patch itself needs some work. In particular, the tmp-file > handling is wrong, we need more robust error checking, etc. I will > try to comment on that in the bug.
I want to code this the right way, so any feedback would be great. > 3) Over time, we've been modifying EvDocument.h to accommodate the needs > of evince. I don't expect this to be a big burden, but do you think > you'll be able to keep it in sync? Basically, every backend needs a > 'maintainer' of some kind, for if/when things change. No problem. Paul > Thanks, > -Jonathan > -- Paul Coates Computing Officer, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
