[maemo-developers] GSOC Project: eBook Reader

[From: Ajai Khattri]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Oliver Haag wrote:

> Okular should be a pretty good base, it supports many formats and is Qt-based 
> (Hope there aren't too many KDE-dependencies...). I'll take a closer look at 
> the source the next days.
> 
> There's another eBook-Software in the repos called FBReader, maybe that is 
> already known but wanted to write it here anyway in case it wasn't seen. I've 
> tried it out and it doesn't seem to be touch-friendly but it looks like it 
> supports more eBook-only-formats, maybe these could be ported (When the other 
> things are running fine :D).

You've been reading my mind haven't you? :-)

It has to be said, Evince is pretty good for PDF (but I dont know if that 
build includes DJVU support?). The other two major formats that I would 
love to see supported are CHM and ePub.

For CHM, have a look at ChmSee (thought it uses GTK+). kchmviewer uses Qt 
but might have too many dependencies on KDE libs.

I was hoping to look at some of these packages myself but Ive not had much 
spare time.



-- 
Aj.