On Thu 25 Aug 2016 at 12:01:39 +0200, Siard wrote: > 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."
Everybody using Jessie knows mupdf is a pdf viewer only, so I did a double-take on this. But being aware of the good quality of your information I checked unstable. Sure enough it has incorporated epub viewing. Thanks for this excellent addition to a thread which is already very informative and useful.
