Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] djvu; oh my, that's interesting...

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 3/1/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> I am really surprised that this is the first I've heard of djvu.

I was, too.

> It sounds like a great format.

Yes, this was *yet another* great idea that got stranded at the old
Bell Labs, like Plan 9, VNC, S (before it became R)...the list goes
on.

> I sometimes scan journal articles to PDF,
> which makes them big image files, not OCR, so I could use something that
> would do a better job.

The real point is that it's only going to be useful for archival
material, since all of the new stuff is already PDF, and often
remarkably small PDF files.  Still, I think if the JSTOR people moved
to this (and they have reason to), we'd find that everybody would get
the plug-in, as they do and did for every other "must have" format.

jking

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