Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 08:13:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: AT&T DjVu for FreeBSD Message-ID: <XFMail.980806081313.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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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. Patrick Gardella -----FW: <199808052109.RAA17363@tide.research.att.com>----- Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 17:09:00 -0400 From: The DjVu Team <cybrary@research.att.com> To: patrick@cre8tivegroup.com Subject: Re: Tech Support Request Cc: cybrary@research.att.com I just installed a wild FreeBSD port (dubbed QuickPort). we did not test it very thoroughly and will not maintain this port very actively, but it creates momentum for the next major release... --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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