[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Why you should stick with pdf

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Wayne Harwood" <michael at musicheadproductions.org>


> I just tried the PDF compression tool you referenced and it did not make a
> single byte of difference - the .pdf files I am generating must already be
> as highly optimized as it gets!  DjVU still wins the size vs. quality
battle
> hands down.
>
> Having said that - I will most likely end up publishing in both formats,
but
> I am favoring DjVU in general at this point.  Please don't take this the
> wrong way, but I am not as worried about backwards compatibility as I am
> about supporting Windows, Unix, and OSX.  No offense to anyone, but I am
not
> going to lose sleep if you can't read these files on an Atari ST.

The advantage of PDF is that you can run the files through ABBYY and do your
own text conversion - and possibly share it with the rest of us. I'm not
aware of any OCR S/W that reads DejaVu files.

Neil





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