[Sugar-devel] Support for EPUB with Read in sugar-jhbuild?

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Hi,

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:51 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm doing another FLOSS Manual on e-books and Sugar and one of the
> things I'd like to do is get some screen shots of the Read Activity
> reading an EPUB e-book.  I modified Get Internet Archive Books to
> download EPUBs and that seems to work OK, but when I try to launch
> Read on one of them it fails to start and complains of a missing
> adapter.  As I remember it, EPUB support depended on something called
> webkit, something like that, that was an alternative to gecko.  There
> was some discussion here on whether we should support both that and
> gecko.  So I have two questions:
>
> 1). How do I get Read as delivered by sugar-jhbuld to work with EPUBs?
>
> 2). Does Read support EPUBs on SoaS right now?  If not, what are our
> future plans regarding EPUB support?
>

Read should be able to render EPUB files if pywebkitgtk is installed.
Thanks,
Sayamindu


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