On Wed, 22 May 2002, Boris Gimbarzevsky wrote:
> I couldn't help noticing this paragraph:
>
> >Do you have anywhere I can FTP it to?
> >The full manual will be in the region
> >of 200MB.
>
> Rather than pdf, consider using DjVu; it's a LOT more compact (I recompressed some pages from the RT-11 Software support manual that I'd scanned a while ago with DjVu, and went from about 900 Kb/page to 30-40 Kb/page). Needless to say, I was very impressed.
>
> The DjVu viewer plugin for various browsers if free, and a program which scans images to individual files is also free from http://www.djvu.com/. I first heard about DjVu on this list, and it is one of the neatest pieces of compression software that I've seen.
I'm plesantly suprised that a plugin does exist for linux... However until
an option exists for Linux some of us won't be able/willing to use it.
That's the great thing about PDF - it works on just about any OS,
including Mac, Winderz, Linux and most Unix variants. With a little work,
you could probably get it to run on DecWindows on VMS, if someone hasn't
already ported opensource PDF tools to it.
-- Pat
Received on Wed May 22 2002 - 07:55:02 BST