Hi all, I have been working on getting Epub support into Read, and here is the first screenshot: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/screenshot_read_epub.png
It is not based on Evince, but on webkit (I had tried to implement a backend for Evince, but lack of well defined pagination in many (most??) Epub files, along with the relative difficulty of rendering HTML for evince (with things like text selection/search support) forced me to choose the alternative path). I'm trying to make the epub view widget follow the evince api as closely as possible, so that it can be dropped into Read with minimal effort/changes. There is no public code yet - but there will be one soon (probably during next week). In a somewhat related note, I have been also looking at the draft Open Publication Distribution System specs[1], which allows ebook distributors to distribute e-books via a Atom XML based catalog format. I think it makes sense to support this in Read, as well as in the school server, so that we can easily distribute e-books. For example, if we have a large e-book collection for a particular deployment, it may not make sense to put all of them in individual computers - instead allowing the user to browse/search the catalog and download the books as and when required would probably be a better option. Thanks, Sayamindu [1] http://code.google.com/p/openpub/wiki/OPDS -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel