| Summary: | support for reading .lit files | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] okular | Reporter: | Dario Panico <dariopnc> |
| Component: | New backend wishes | Assignee: | Okular developers <okular-devel> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kranthi.t2000, samjnaa |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Simple clit based shell script to convert lit to epub | ||
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Description
Dario Panico
2008-02-20 18:55:36 UTC
Created attachment 23813 [details]
Simple clit based shell script to convert lit to epub
Since lit is propriety undocumented copyright protected file format. And that the one guy was brave enough to parse it and got into legal problem. I don't think we want/can support it natively. What we can do is to use convertlit to convert those files into epub format and then use okular's epub plugin to show them. I hacked a simple shell script that suppose to do that. It's probably still have some issues but I think with some work we might be even to use it as default. I was just going to suggest using convertlit personally. Is there any chance this might get integrated into Okular? Is there any way for me to integrate this script with Okular for personal use? *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** In regards to comment #2 from Ely, I don't know the story of the guy who was trying to open up the format before. People reverse-engineer format readers all the time. That isn't against the law. If I had to guess, the kid was threatened with the DMCA, which makes it illegal to circumvent copyright protection to pirate materials. So, it likely goes alone similar lines of libdvdcss, in which code allows you to play media (or read media) which I've seen lawyers say is perfectly legal, and has no real bearing on the DMCA. Enabling people to bypass copyright protection to make unlawful copies is another story altogether. Enough FUD was spread that people are afraid to touch it. Distros won't include libdvdcss, even though it isn't illegal. And no one has gone after distros that do include it. If people have been scared off of .lit support because of FUD, that is sad. No developments on this front? I would also like Okular to read LIT files. Unless someone steps up and codes it, there's no support planned I'm not aware of anyone working on this. (In reply to comment #1) > Created an attachment (id=23813) [details] > Simple clit based shell script to convert lit to epub Thanks! But it actually apparently requires bash to work correctly. On systems where /bin/sh points to dash (such as on Ubuntu) it does not work. So please change the hashbang line to indicate bash. *** Bug 273513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |