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Originally Posted by RetroHacker
Stick with PDF. Lizardtech's Djvu is a total waste of time. It's a proprietary format, and not very flexible. Sure, it's a little smaller, but it's not worth the trouble. Also, it means that people like me that use only Linux are screwed. I've got a Djvu file here that I still can't print or view properly. I even tried bringing it over to someones computer that was running windows, and with the proper client, I was able to open it. It refused to print properly, however, generating lines in the printout.
Stick with PDF. The files aren't that big.
-Ian
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There's a standalone browser if the plug in doesn't work, vice versa, by the way. Just FYI. What version of Linux are you using? You obviously don't recall having to reverse engineer CP/M to get it to run on this brand or that, and sometimes models within a brand before Win 1 came out and MS demanded the end to hacking your own software copies. If you don't see the good of Windows, it did bring a common functionality and less confusion to an early PC world, and it introduced the EULA as we now know it, whereas before software was thought to be owned but now it's LICENSED and REVOCABLE. Big change.
Before you get up in arms about all that, I prefered my time at an HP 3000 compiler to DOS and almost thought to learn Cobol or Fortran. Almost.
I did not touch a PC until after 1985, but started in 1979 or 80 on TRS-80 model 1 4k no DOS (cassette) and terrible keyboard that always stuck, then a day with a Commodore then Apple II family then HP 3000 in college..