From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69396 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt support for DjVu backend Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:27:55 +0200 Message-ID: <4E025E5B.2080509@wxs.nl> References: <1308771886.3578.13.camel@kip-laptop> <4E0247C4.4000608@wxs.nl> <1308774725.3578.14.camel@kip-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1308778130 6741 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2011 21:28:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:28:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Kip Warner Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jun 22 23:28:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QZUyb-0002Iv-9u for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C42FCAE15; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id CswGGNX6nzy3; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E837CAE0C; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D7ACAE0C for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id epp7xIu+z0Jz for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AABA7CAE0A for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p5MLSRQe026621 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:28 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 5173-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:28:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: <1308774725.3578.14.camel@kip-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eEX9ssHs - 5734e7becb1e - 20110622 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:69396 Archived-At: On 22-6-2011 10:32, Kip Warner wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:51 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >> it's mostly an image format (efficient storage of scanned documents) and >> in that sense it's an alternative (jbig2 is another candidate) >> >> Hans > > That's what I was thinking too at first, that's it's mostly for scanned > documents. But since it is trying to be a replacement for PDF and it has > most of the same features, I think it's more than just that now. - the starting point is scanned images - there can be an ocr layer but still the image is the core - pdf is more: colorspaces, vector graphics, annotations, etc So, a djvu document would be less sophisticated. It might not matter for many cases, and one could probably make a backend to produce something reasonable but it's not worth the trouble I fear. As mentioned, it's probably easier to convert the pdf into a djvu with a postprocessor. 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