On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 3:24 PM Alex Brollo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nevertheless consider the file structure inside archive.org, who collects > images into zip files and text into _djvu.xml files, so allowing to manage > its brilliant viewer. > Djvu format really can be used as a compact images+xml container, but it > seems an obsolete file format, as recent discontinuation of output by > archive.org suggests. Pdf is IMHO too complex and can't be considered an > open format.
Let's look at one of the files I'm going to upload. https://archive.org/details/Weird_Tales_v02n02_1923-09 was originally uploaded as a zip file of JPEG files. If I could upload it as that, or as the zip of JP2 files, I would. Right now, I'm going to convert them to DjVu and upload them, without any text information. However, there's a lot of cases where we just have PDF files, and I don't want to force some of our more technically unskilled users to have to figure out file conversion, especially where, in the case of PDF files, there's no point; Wikimedia can convert it loselessly to any number of pile of page image formats without much problem. > Pdf is IMHO too complex and can't be considered an open format. It's got an ISO standard and royalty-free patent licensing. An open format doesn't have to be a simple or good one; it just has to have an agreed-upon standard without licensing problems. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
