GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 557639
Add support for xz compressed archives
Last modified: 2011-06-08 17:00:54 UTC
LZMA = Compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip program LZMA is a compression algorithm, based on the famous Lempel Ziv compression method. The main characteristics of the algorithm are very good compression, fast decompression, use of lot of RAM for compression and low usage of RAM for decompression. LZMA provides high compression ratio and very fast decompression, so it is very suitable for embedded applications. For example, it can be used for ROM (firmware) compression. This package provides a gzip-like interface for the lzma program. ( see also http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html ) ( file-roller support .lzma and .tar.lzma ) http://packages.debian.org/sid/file-roller
New compression tool and format is xz. http://tukaani.org/xz/ file-roller have support for xz compressed archives now http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582237 Can you add support for xz compressed archives (pdf.xz) like for pdf.gz and pdf.bz2 ?
Sorry, first of all such format should be added to mime types in shared-mime-info.
It has been added two months ago in CVS. http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/mime/shared-mime-info/ It will be in the next version. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22593
It's not about .xz mime type, but about .pdf.xz mime type. To be honest I don't really think that such format is very important. Is it widely used? The reason that .pdf.gz exists is that it's used in Debian for documentation.
Hello, the format was added last December: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/?id=6a1aad4e1e7c9857a25134dac9f5be13231101f5 and It's more used nowadays. Could you reconsider this request?
Evince 3.0 does support xz compression. I can read pdf.xz files without problem.