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Is djvu a viable alternative and if so, why isn't it used as widely as pdf?
by ernst_klim 8y ago
Is djvu a viable alternative and if so, why isn't it used as widely as pdf?
- fiddlerwoaroof 8y agoWeren’t there licensing or patent issues?
- ungzd 8y agoDJVU is raster format. It's intended for scans and archiving printed media. It's possible to use it for documents produced digitally, but I don't think it will be a good idea. PDF "core" is not that bad, but 90s "multimedia" craze turned it into badly designed graphical application runtime.
- ernst_klim 8y agoThanks for disambiguation, the raster-vector part is really a major difference. Is PS a viable alternative (even though it is a programming language itself)?
- wbl 8y agoHow do you embed fonts?
- ungzd 8y agoAFAIK, PDF is mostly a container for PS with compression and better handling of fonts (BTW, can fonts be embedded in PS? How fonts are sent to printer?). Still, both formats are too much printing-oriented. Reading documentation in PDF on computer screen is not especially pleasant, and unbearable on phones.