Bug#94442: ITP djvu netscape plugin
Package: wnpp
The djvu compressed image file format is an enormous leap over JPEG
and GIF in all ways: flexibility, compression ratio, rendering speed,
incremental zooming, multipage, textual search when appropriate, etc.
See http://www.djvu.att.com/ for details.
They have released a Netscape plugin, but with a horrible license.
However, in a few weeks they will apparently be releasing a new
version of the plugin under the GPL, to accompany the core djvu
library which they've already released under the GPL.
Unless someone else wants to (PLEASE PLEASE!) I'll plan to package the
djvu Netscape plugin. Hopefully it will use the GPLed djvu core
library, which I'll put in a separate package in the usual fashion.
I haven't really looked at the compressor code, but if it is licensed
reasonably I'll package it as well. I do know that they have
postscript->djvu converters as well as bitmap->djvu. A compression
plugin for scanners like SANE would make a great deal of sense, as
would something that makes djvu files work directly with the print
system.
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