On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Anupam Jain <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> DjVu (http://djvu.sourceforge.net/), both the format and the viewer,
> are under GNU GPL. And from what I've seen so far, it has a VERY high
> quality to size ratio.. Seems like the open source community would be
> better off investigating alternative formats like these rather than
> playing catchup with Adobe.
>
> -- Anupam


That's great Anupam...

But PDF is a widely used format for document publishing. If we bring another
format into the public domain we will also be requiring a huge awareness
campaign for this.

I understand playing catch up might be hard..but at the same time giving too
many options to the end-user and finally ending up with a dozzen of
different formats won't also do any good. Let's not forget, all that an
end-user wants is her/his document to be published in a readable format. So,
let's not confuse them any further then they already are...

Just an opinion...
-- 
Smruti
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