A djvu file is the wrong file type to be extracting an image, it is a jpg, and we all are aware of the lossy issues with jpgs and playing with those as images. There are better file types to be using to base an image, and archive.org has those available, so something that allowed easy extraction better quality images would be better. Personally I still use the archive.org image viewer, expand it to the largest size, and then right click to save the image from the browser.
Pulling apart a djvu file into text and image is also destroying what is integral to a djvu file. An online cropping tool from a djvu would be interesting, and WinDjView already does that if you have the software. My issue is that I don't see the advantage of that in MV if we have extracted the work already, and it isn't hard to do it if it hasn't been extracted. Regards, Billinghurst On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, I would rather have a tool that pulls apart djvu files as they are > uploaded; keeping the text in WS and the pics in Commons > On Oct 1, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Alex Brollo wrote: > > I recently added two recommandations for improvement of MediaViewer here: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer#Recommendations_for_improvement > > These my pretty exotic requests listed into "Bugs" section (I don't know if > I posted them into the right section): > > > * While supporting multiple page djvu, to implement a tool to copy into > clipboard with a click from displayed djvu page: (1) pure text layer, (2) > lisp-like mapped text layer structure at line or word detail, (3) xml mapped > text-layer (Alex brollo) > * While supporting multiple page djvu, to implement a tool to crop and > download illustrations (as jpg or png) from image djvu layer of current page > (Alex brollo) > > The access to those two tools could enhance a lot, IMHO, full usability of > data wrapped into our beloved djvu files. Some js tool could manage mapped > djvu text with interesting results. Many from us can get the same data by a > local djvuLibre application, but getting data from MediaViewer could avoid > the use of local command-line applications and make easier access to those > interesting, so far unused data for anyone. > > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikisource-l mailing list > Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l > _______________________________________________ Wikisource-l mailing list Wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
