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Dicur3x

Hello! I new here. I see - sumatra can read many files. But i wonder why it can’t read fb2. It’s very popular (maybe most popular) ebooks files. Maybe you will please add it?

kjk

Sumatra does support fb2 (Supported document formats)

If you have a file that doesn’t open please submit a bug report (How to submit bug reports) and provide the file that doesn’t work.

Dicur3x

Wow, i did not found this… Ty for page. I will try. I used sumatra pdf long time ago and it had read only pdf (or i lose sight of eye)

drkobrin

Not sure this is a right place to ask about fb2.zip. There is no problem with fb2, indeed. But some time ago pre-releases of SumatraPDF stopped to open fb2.zip files, while I remember that earlier releases opened fb2.zip directly. Now I need to unzip a fb2.zip file first, and only then open the obtained fb2 with SumatraPDF. May it be something wrong with my settings?

GitHubRulesOK

possibly not
see https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/2147

there were some differences in fb2 naming so see if rename to .fb2z helps

since many .open doc formats are .zip with different extensions MuPDF/SumatraPDF sees them as image archive folders like .ora or .cbz thus fb2.zip may open if there is an included image.

As a seperate issue some .fb2 that were opened in the past by SumatraPDF are now rejected by the MuPDF engine so its worth checking against older version for some plain.xml.fb2

GitHubRulesOK

@Dicur3x @drkobrin

There has been an improvement in detecting FB2[.zip] in Pre-release 3.4.14200 onwards so try out a newer version https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease

drkobrin

Nice, thank you very much! No problem with .fb2.zip now.