Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> writes: > >> 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.
