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Re: epub files and debian?



Brian:
> Siard:
> > Joe Pfeiffer:
> > > 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.

I feel honoured. :-) The latest version is also in testing, which I use.
But for epub viewing I prefer ebook-viewer, provided by calibre,
because of its options to adapt the display to your liking.

$ ebook-viewer file.epub


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