#2448 NORM First D: Xbook needs djvu-libre support

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#2448: Xbook needs djvu-libre support
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  Reporter:  sj           |       Owner:  tomeu                 
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  distro       |     Version:                        
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                        
  Verified:  0            |  
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Changes (by jg):

  * milestone:  Untriaged => First Deployment, V1.0

Old description:

> Evince supports djvu, among other formats; this was removed from xbook,
> presumably to keep it small, but it would be very useful. among other
> things, it will let people access much smaller scan-sets of printed
> texts.
>
> A brief email thread follows.  Luke Hutchison is at Google this summer
> working on books, and trying to help out with accessing and reading feeds
> of books and metadata; some collections are primarily in djvu.
>
> SJ
>
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:49 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 03:36 -0700, Luke Hutchison wrote:
> > > PS anyone know why xbook doesn't support djvu-libre, when evince
> does?
> > >  A lot of public domain scanned books are available in deja vu
> format.
> >
> > Evince needs to be compiled with dejavu support. I think it's only
> that.
> >

New description:

 Evince supports djvu, among other formats; this was removed from xbook,
 presumably to keep it small, but it would be very useful. among other
 things, it will let people access much smaller scan-sets of printed texts.

 A brief email thread follows.  Luke Hutchison is at Google this summer
 working on books, and trying to help out with accessing and reading feeds
 of books and metadata; some collections are primarily in djvu.

 Related to bug #2839


 On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 12:49 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
 > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 03:36 -0700, Luke Hutchison wrote:
 > > PS anyone know why xbook doesn't support djvu-libre, when evince does?
 > >  A lot of public domain scanned books are available in deja vu format.
 >
 > Evince needs to be compiled with dejavu support. I think it's only that.
 >

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