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From: David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>
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Subject: Re: AT&T DjVu for FreeBSD
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 Patrick Gardella wrote:
 > AT&T recently announced a new compression method for images on the
 > net.  It can compress a high resolution image file 4-5X smaller
 > than gif or jpeg.
 >
 > Now what concerns us: I wrote to them asking them to make a FreeBSD
 > port of this (since they had Irix, Linux, and Solaris).  In about
 > five hours, they had a FreeBSD port of it!  I was quite impressed,
 > to say the least (See message below).
 >
 > However, they don't plan to support it "very actively", probably
 > due to the suspected low requests for it.
 >
 > If this is something you can use, visit them and voice your
 > support.  http://djvu.research.att.com/home_mstr.htm
 >
 > They do not have a compressor app for FreeBSD yet, but I would
 > suppose that this could be done as well fairly quickly.
 >
 > On a side note, the Linux version does not work on FreeBSD.  It
 > will "run", but not display the files.  I did not test the Linux
 > plug-in with the Linux Netscape however.
 >

On another side note, I was *very* impressed that this plugin worked
so easily with navigator on FreeBSD!  Are there any other FreeBSD
plugins available that are worth checking out?

Thanks for the pointer.

-david.

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