Would djvu be a good alternative for PDF in IMSLP?
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:51 pm
djvu is a document format optimized for scans and file size is a magnitude smaller than PDF.
I believe this would really help the IMSLP server workload and bandwidth (especially users without broadband)
With regards to accessibility, there are already many djvu readers for Windows and Mac, such as:
http://windjview.sourceforge.net/
If users don't have djvu installed, they can easily obtain a djvu reader, like how they download the acrobat reader.
So I really can't see why djvu is "deprecated" as described in the IMSLP site.
Finally, if we set up the server to convert all existing pdf files to djvu files, perhaps we can shrink our current 50GB repository to 10GB. This would be beneficial especially after the massive uploads from ripping the CDSM series
I believe this would really help the IMSLP server workload and bandwidth (especially users without broadband)
With regards to accessibility, there are already many djvu readers for Windows and Mac, such as:
http://windjview.sourceforge.net/
If users don't have djvu installed, they can easily obtain a djvu reader, like how they download the acrobat reader.
So I really can't see why djvu is "deprecated" as described in the IMSLP site.
Finally, if we set up the server to convert all existing pdf files to djvu files, perhaps we can shrink our current 50GB repository to 10GB. This would be beneficial especially after the massive uploads from ripping the CDSM series