[Sugar-devel] Improving Reading Experience

[Jim Simmons]

Bastien,

All books in IA should be available as both PDFs and DjVu's.  Some are
also available as B/W PDFs.  I filter on DjVu, offer all three formats
in the combo box, and show a message dialog when you try to download a
B/W PDF and there isn't one.  No doubt this could be improved, but if
you want to download a color PDF you just need to change the option in
the combo box.

Thanks,

James Simmons

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Bastien<bastienguerry at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> To open a djvu file in evince you need a plugin.  This plugin is
>> included in Fedora but not installed by default.  I would guess the
>> situation is similar in other distros.  In Fedora I would do a yum
>> search on "djvu" or "evince" to find it.
>
> I'm running sugar-jhbuild, so I'll need to try first to support .djvu in
> evince then recompile sugar-jhbuild.  Thanks for the directions.
>
>> If that doesn't work you can download a PDF instead.  All IA books
>> should be available in that format as well.
>
> Maybe a filter in GIAB would be nice, so that we can pick up .pdf files
> or .djvu files only.
>
> best,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>