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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Implement DJVU reader

Reported by dmitri.v...@gmail.com, Mar 26 2017 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_11_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Get a DJVU document
2. Try to open it in Chromebook
3. Chromebook does not support DJVU file format (http://djvu.org/)

What is the expected behavior?
DJVU document opens and can be viewed.

What went wrong?
Cannot view a DJVU document.

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.110  Channel: stable
OS Version: 9000.91.0
Flash Version: 

I believe native application would be appropriate.

Comment 1 by anton.sa...@gmail.com, Mar 26 2017 

The DjVu project provides plug-ins for various platforms:

http://djvu.org/resources/

It would be nice to integrate native support for DjVu into the document viewer of  Chrome OS.

Also, PostScript documents are not supported which is really annoying.

Comment 2 by ranjitkan@chromium.org, Mar 27 2017

Labels: Needs-Milestone

Comment 3 by sureshkumari@chromium.org, Mar 28 2017

Components: Internals>Plugins
Labels: -Needs-Milestone M-59
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Considering this as Feature request and marking it as Untriaged to get more inputs from dev team.

Thanks.

Comment 4 by patricia...@chromium.org, Mar 29 2017

Components: -Internals>Plugins Internals>Plugins>PDF
Labels: -OS-Mac OS-Chrome

Comment 5 by thestig@chromium.org, Mar 29 2017

Components: -Internals>Plugins>PDF Platform>Apps>Default
Labels: -Pri-2 -M-59 Pri-3
Looks like there are already a couple viewers in the Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/djvu

re: comment 1 - Maybe check the Web Store for PostScript viewers?

re: comment 4 - This is a completely separate format and not related to the built-in PDF Viewer.

Comment 6 by anton.sa...@gmail.com, Mar 29 2017 

IMHO, third-party applications are overkill. It is more convenient to have the native document viewer to support PDF, PostScript, DVI, and DjVu, like normal GNU/Linux document viewers do, e.g. Evince. It is very annoying that every now and then Google Scholar search results cannot be opened on Chrome OS.
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