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

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The first I heard of djvu was a couple of days ago when I read a rant 
about the New Yorker using a DRM-enabled version of it for their 
magazine-on-DVD collection.

At any rate, one of the main issues I see is the installed base of PDF 
users.  History is rife with examples of a superior technology losing 
out to a less-proficient but more-popular one. 

We use Acrobat at work in dealing with plans and other construction 
documents.  I'm going to look into the use of djvu, as it seems to be 
good at dealing with line drawings and text.  I hope though, that the 
tools involved are able to do things like rearrange pages, create one 
big djvu document from multiple smaller ones, etc.  I use these features 
of Acrobat all the time and really can't live without them.  The only 
other hold-up I see is trying to explain to subcontractors where to go 
get the plug-in/etc. to read these files.  I have a hard enough time 
avoiding these issues with PDF and that's with 95% of them already 
having it installed.

-N

Jonathan King wrote:

> So questions come up periodically about getting hardcopy stuff onto
> the web.  Here's another idea:
>
> http://www.djvuzone.org/
>
> As far as I understand it, this suggests that one can possibly look
> forward to having a lot of stuff on-line in a readable (if not
> searchable) format more easily than one might think.  I'm amused.  (I
> became aware of this when a book that gone into the PD pointed out
> that you could download it in djvu format at 6 MB, or the scanned PDF
> at 32 MB...
>
> jking
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