GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 383312
FilterMars
Last modified: 2018-07-03 09:49:23 UTC
Straight from the horses mouth: "The Mars (code name) Project is an XML-friendly implementation of PDF syntax. Already an open specification, PDF is the global standard for trusted, high fidelity electronic documentation. The Mars file format incorporates additional industry standards such as SVG, PNG, JPG, JPG2000, OpenType, Xpath and XML into ZIP-based document container. The Mars plug-ins enable recognition of the Mars file format by Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Reader 8 software." The filter is probably not ready for inclusion just yet since no one will have the mimetype and adobe may change the name from mars to something sensible before launch, but hopefully people can give it some testing before that happens I'll attach the filter along with a sample mars document. To view the mars document you'll need the windows/mac version of acrobat reader along with the mars plugin : http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/mars.html alternatively you can open it up in file-roller and view the individual pages with inkscape (although the fonts will be wrong the page is basically intact)
Created attachment 77880 [details] A Mars document
Created attachment 77881 [details] Mars Filter
Ok, heres the (mixed) news. First off, the filer seems to do a fine job, might need to tweak some spacing/newline breaks stuff before CVS, but it looks solid overall. The issue is most every tool I have detects a mars file as application/zip (since it technically is) or a application/octet-stream. Which means that it either gets indexed by our archive filter, or not at all. In short, since you can't actually open the format on linux yet, we might be jumping the gun a little. Don't doubt the filter is awesome, but until desktops ship mars as a mime type we can't do much...
Beagle is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes in early 2011. Its codebase has been archived (see bug 796735): https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/beagle/commits/master "tracker" is an available alternative. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.