On Feb 12, 2010, at 12:06, thecolourblue wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know the issue of using Skim for reading djvu files has been brought up
> several times here (and always rejected)- I thought I would try again ;)
Why, if you know the answer?
Christiaan
>
> The justification is simple- I have lots of pdf's which I enjoy reading and
> annotating with Skim- I also have lots of djvu's which I would like to read
> with Skim also. The djvu's are mostly scanned documents, for which djvu seems
> to do a much better job at representing than pdf's (I could convert them to
> pdf's but it would take a *long* time, and increase my disk space by a factor
> of about 7). The readers for djvu's on the mac are poor, but Skim is
> excellent, and it would be great if it would display djvu's too.
>
> The technical arguments are that Skim uses apple's PDFKit to render the pdf's
> and there is no support for djvu. But the djvu libraries are freely
> available- if they could be massaged to provide a DJVUKit which would read
> and display djvu's then could such functionality be easily integrated into
> Skim? Of course, some things might not work (I dont know about notes or
> searching), but if Skim could just display my djvu's like a pdf, then I would
> be v. happy.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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