-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0805111606101.29096@nimrodel.valinor> The Sunday 2008-05-11 at 11:02 +0100, John wrote: [ reposting; the list filter devnulled it. ]
As an aside djvu is in many ways a much better format. Take up seems to be a bit slow. Largely because acrobat is more or less supplied with every machine on the planet.
They are different things. PDF is very good for computer generated text, because it uses fonts. DjVu, on the other hand, is very good, perhaps perfect, for scanned material. I think its biggest problem is that creating .djvu files is too complex and slow. There is no support by any major GUI program: The Gimp can not even read them! Nor can you can not include a photo in openoffice. It is almost impossible to get the perfect command line combination to produce the best output file. The best approximation I know is trial and error... To convert a .png file I use this or similar: pngtopnm PNGFILE > PNMFILE c44 -dpi DOTSPERINCH -slice "23+19+17+13+9+7+5+3+2+1" PNMFILE and different incantation's depending on the quality desired. Of course, nothing advanced like monochrome image separation. If the developers want this format to take, they must provide support for it in graphics programs like gimp, and make them usable in other programs like openoffice, etc. Having to use their own isolated utilities to display them, and the very awkward command line c44 to create them, is absurd and obsolete. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJv3MtTMYHG2NR9URAuVCAJ9lAo/YWtvcaSBrNCIo6Y63ujhxagCeOs8a 5s4Y25ZUMaGM4o/fB7rVovA= =PLec -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org