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Ironically, because of poor software support and lack of knowledge about the format, most DjVus are slowly being converted to PDFs.
by qingcharles 9mo ago
Ironically, because of poor software support and lack of knowledge about the format, most DjVus are slowly being converted to PDFs.
- anthk 9mo agoDjvu/djview it's libre software with open standards. The issue of "lack of knowledge" it's a bit bullshit.
- MrDrMcCoy 9mo agoSo, I love DjVu and think it's a superior format to PDF. _Consuming_ DjVu is easy, but when was the last time you interacted with the tools to _create_ them? I can say from direct experience that they are awful.
- anthk 9mo agoGhostScript should have shipped DjVU drivers by default long ago.
- qingcharles 9mo agoI mean "lack of knowledge" in so much as most people have never come across a DjVu file in their lives and when they get one they find that their system won't open it, so they will instead go looking for a PDF version of the same document.
- EvanAnderson 9mo agoA court in my local government has been using a document imaging system since the early 2000's. It stored documents as DjVu files until a couple of years ago when the vendor re-encoded all the documents as PDF to comply with mandates for file storage format from my state Supreme Court. It made me really sad.