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Comment DjVu Does What PDF Can't (Score 1) 154

Here are just a few of the things that DjVu can do that PDF cannot:

  1. Encode a 20MB color scan into a 100-200K file, and still produce a good-looking image.
  2. Encode a 300 dpi B&W scan into 17K, and still be able to read the image.
  3. Create separate image and data layers.
  4. Create a multi-page document either as a single file, or as a linked list of indivdual pages, with a file for each page.
  5. Construct a URL that will drop a user into the middle of a document (page 50 of 100, for example), without losing the context of the other pages.
  6. Provide automatic installation of the free DjVu viewer without sign-up forms that harvest my customer's email addresses
  7. Zoom and pan on the fly.
  8. Convert to other file formats such as JPEG.

For my money, DjVu is a superior file format that has been nicely tuned for the web. PDF was optimized for print pre-press, and it shows.

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