Re: [libreoffice-users] alternative to pdf?

On 11-01-19 02:56 PM, baldwin linguas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, amine amine <ammine007@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Salam,
> >
> > i think that if there is an extension to LibO that permit djvu forms
> > edition, it'll be very pleasant to enterprises that try to stick to open
> > standards.
> >
> > LibO+djvu will be replacing the essential of the Oracle office suite and
> > the
> > adobe PDF format !
> >
> > good luck to you all!
> I've just been doing a bunch of googling.
> I can't find ANY utility for conversion of odt, LaTeX,
> .ps, .png, or other open formats to djvu that doesn't require
> a step through pdf or jpg somewhere.
You can also use TIFF as an intermediat format.

> It almost makes it seem pointless to have this open standard.
> You CAN convert scanned images to djvu without such steps.
> Oh, you CAN step through netpbm to djvu for image files.
> Apparently there are tools for converting netpbm files
> (open image files created by scanners, largely) to djvu,
> but, for some odd reason, they were not included in the
> netpbm tools available on debian...weird.


> It seems to me, that for djvu to be a viable open alternative to
> pdf, such conversion tools would be not only desirable,
> but necessary.

See this:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#Images_directly_to_DjVu

I briefly checked and in Ubuntu they're in djvulibre-bin.

Cheers,

Fabian

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