[Premium-Rx] Comments on djvu compression format

[John Miles]

I agree with Chuck.  DjVu is a nice format but I have serious concerns about
its suitability for archival purposes.

Ten years from now, .PDFs will still be easily readable on any platform
running any OS.  That is much more important than anything else, including
compression efficiency or even online browsability.  I would not recommend
the use of any non-standard formats for the reference archive.

-- john KE5FX

> The point of my comment is that a lot of effort will
> be spent producing the PremRx reference material and
> it would be disappointing to have it in a format that
> might loose support.  I think Adobe is probably here
> to stay.  The compression advantage of djvu would be
> lost if you could no longer read the files.
>
> I vote NO on DJVU.
>
> Chuck Maurer
>
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