Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 01:12:48 +0800 From: Doug Lo <jwlo@ms11.hinet.net> To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AT&T DjVu for FreeBSD Message-ID: <35C9E410.F4C7D6B6@ms11.hinet.net> References: <XFMail.980806081313.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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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. > Patrick, I can run Linux version djvu with no problems on FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE. What kind of problems do you encounter? Regards, Doug. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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