2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez <[email protected]> > On 11-01-19 02:56 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:33 PM, amine amine <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Salam, > >> > >> i think that if there is an extension to LibO that permit djvu forms > >> edition, it'll be very pleasant to enterprises that try to stick to open > >> standards. > >> > >> LibO+djvu will be replacing the essential of the Oracle office suite and > >> the > >> adobe PDF format ! > >> > >> good luck to you all! > >> > >> > >> > > I've just been doing a bunch of googling. > > I can't find ANY utility for conversion of odt, LaTeX, > > .ps, .png, or other open formats to djvu that doesn't require > > a step through pdf or jpg somewhere. > You can also use TIFF as an intermediat format. > > > It almost makes it seem pointless to have this open standard. > > You CAN convert scanned images to djvu without such steps. > > Oh, you CAN step through netpbm to djvu for image files. > > Apparently there are tools for converting netpbm files > > (open image files created by scanners, largely) to djvu, > > but, for some odd reason, they were not included in the > > netpbm tools available on debian...weird. > > > > It seems to me, that for djvu to be a viable open alternative to > > pdf, such conversion tools would be not only desirable, > > but necessary. > > See this: > http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:DjVu_files#Images_directly_to_DjVu > > I briefly checked and in Ubuntu they're in djvulibre-bin. >
Yeah, I have that stuff, imagemagick and dvjulibre. That's great for scanning a document to .pbm and converting to .djvu Sure. But, that doesn't make DjVu a completely viable option as a "portable document format" to replace .pdf, when pdf is ubiquitous and easily generated, while tools for converting documents, and other images, to .djvu are either simply not available, or require roundtripping through the proprietary pdf. I can convert just about anything to pdf almost instantaneously, now. Webpages, .odt docs, plain text, LaTeX, all sorts of image files. But in order to create a DjVu file with such materials, almost universally I HAVE to go to pdf first. As I see it, I should be able to compile a .tex file to .djvu, export plain text, or .odt to .djvu, etc., without the intermediary of a proprietary format. I discuss this more here: http://baldwinsoftware.com/blog/?p=1329 (wherein I mention discussion on this list), and also offer a script for converting plain text files to djvu (but, sadly, not without passing through pdf along the way...). ./tony -- http://www.baldwinlinguas.com http://www.baldwinsoftware.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
