Re: [libreoffice-design] Open standards: Lets be free a DJVU printer /reader instead of PDF ones

Hi

On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 16:17 +0200, Astron wrote: 

> Hi,
>
> as Maggie has already said, djvu is not a very common format. Also, it
> is geared towards storing images more efficiently whereas PDF can
> directly store text – which should in most cases be the better
> solution for LibreOffice documents. (Feel free to disagree here,
> though, as my knowledge isn't very thorough in this regard.)
>
> Astron.
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Miguel Mayol i Tur <mitcoes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > DJVU is an open format.
> > I love "Save as PDF" but in a long term would be better to add a Save as
> > DJVU, and tools to edit it - PDF ones once "printed" are mostly propietary
> > ones -
> >
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PDF viewers are available at no cost, including alternatives to Adobe
Reader. Often Windows software comes with a copy of Adobe Reader to read
the PDF. DJVU is not well known, I never heard of it before also. 
-- 
Jay Lozier
Jslozier@gmail.com

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