Bug 236454

Summary: Some e-pub files are rendered empty
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Jonas Thorell <jthorell>
Component: EPub backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: elylevy
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Jonas Thorell 2010-05-05 18:20:19 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

I have some e-pub files that Okular refuses to read. Or rather: it opens them but the file is rendered as just one empty page and according to the page-counter there is only one page.

However, other programs supporting e-pub can read the same files just fine (tried with Calibre, Sigil and a extension for Firefox - the latter one being http://www.epubread.com/en/). I'd very much prefer to being able to read them using Okular though...but I have no idea of what could be wrong. Bug in the backend? E-pub files that are malformed?

Unfortunately, most of the files I have that displays this behavior I'm not at liberty to distribute. The one in the following URL acts that way though: http://www.webscription.net/p-16-the-apocalypse-troll.aspx

Well, it does for me anyway. Can someone check if they can reproduce the problem with that file?
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2010-05-05 20:35:44 UTC 
Ely, can you have a look?
Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2010-05-22 23:05:01 UTC 
The trunk version of ebook-tools loads the file, but then the document is still subject to the issues with relative URLs; so this bug would be:
a) UPSTREAM for the "empty page" issue
b) DUPLICATE of #198764 for the relative URLs issue
given a) is solved, I'm marking this bug duplicate of #198764, so you (Jonas) can follow it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198764 ***