Re: epub files and debian?

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Dan Ritter <dsr@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.

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