Hello Jbugman,

What kind of theme do you have in mind ?

You can already theme Ubooquity with custom CSS and image.

If you mean full HTML structure theming, that is still in development but will definitely be part of one of the next releases as I will rely on it to modify the UI myself to add read/unread support on books.

Hi Frédéric,

1) I still plan to add a way to "plug" external PDF renderers to Ubooquity since I still haven't found a free Java library that is as efficient as tools like MuPDF or Poppler. But this feature is not at the top of my list yet (although it's not that far from the top), so it won't be implement very soon.

2) I don't have a complete understanding of the encoding issue you have encountered (as you can gather from the different threads about encoding on this forum), but what I'm sure of is that the encoding setting impacts the entire Java process (meaning all parts of Ubooquity), so there is no way to use it only for PDF related tasks.

The problem with encoding issues is that they are hard to reproduce on my side as they depend on your OS, your OS settings, the way you launch your JVM (the Java runtime) and the way your book files were written.

Thanks for the nice words everyone. :)

For reference, the Junrar version used in Ubooquity 2.1.2 is now this one:

https://github.com/vaemendis/junrar/commit/d9cb2e9699beda28e7209170e7d1635361d78484

(latest junrar/junrar version with my fix on top)

It's not that easy to do. Like I said, Ubooquity has been designed to work with files. What you propose is to "mount" a zip as you would mount any other filesystem.

It would entail too many modifications in my code.

By the way, all book and comics formats are already compressed (a lot of them are already zip files named differently). Storing a lot of them in a big zip file will not save much space.

Hello Probity,

I haven't been able to find much information about flibusta or inpx files (all the pages were in Russian, a language I can't read).

But in any case, Ubooquity has been designed around the concept of one file per book. So unless you can convert your library into individual (epub/PDF/...) files, using Ubooquity for your library will not be possible.

Thanks, I'll get it.

If the problem is the version of RAR (5) though, there is no solution in sight as junrar does not support it:

https://github.com/junrar/junrar/issues/23

Could you send it to me as well ?

It will be useful for testing Junrar versions.

Hi Bollings,

Yes, the project is still alive !

I know it's been a while since I released a version.

There are several reasons for that, the youngest of these being just over one year old. ;)

The main feature I want to add for now is the display of the reading status for books and comics (unread, in progress, finished). For that I have to modify the user interface a bit.

So I decided to change the way pages are rendered (using templates instead of code) and implement full pages themes (allowing the theming of the HTML structure, not just CSS and image).

It's been a bit dull and painful to do, hence the lack of release for a long time.

I don't know when the next one will be (I stopped giving estimates a long time ago), but I'd like to be done with this one to be able to go back to a more regular release period.

So yes, still working on it !