DJVU or PDF file format - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2019, 08:43:05 pm
content: I have mentioned somewhere else that I love Soviet-era electronics.There is a lot of good information on the web. Some of course in PDF format, but some others in the DJVU format.Googling the term, I found the following webpage:https://windjview.sourceforge.io/Is anyone familiar with this software? Can it be trusted?

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2019, 08:52:06 pm
content: There are a few online DJVU to PDF converters that might be a convenient option (presumably you'd prefer to have them all in pdf anyway).

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 27, 2019, 09:38:15 pm
content: Thanks for the tip!!This is exactly what I needed.And didn't have to download or install anything.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2019, 03:57:57 am
content: I've never needed to look at a DjVu file, but SumatraPDF claims to support the DjVu format. SumatraPDF is a small, fast, lightweight open source viewer. It is Windows only. It does not have to be installed, you can get a portable version that you just extract into its own folder and run it from there. It doesn't need to write to the registry. To uninstall it, just delete its folder. I've used it for many years now. For me, the only real drawback is that it doesn't support interactive forms, so once a year I have to use Foxitreader to fill out my tax forms. Fortunately Foxitreader also has a portable version.https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2019, 11:23:09 am
content: Ha! I use Sumatra as my default pdf viewer, I never realized that it supported DjVu natively.Quote from: rdl on March 28, 2019, 03:57:57 amFor me, that's one of the main advantages, it has no concept of embedded scripts and you can lock it down to disable embedded links etc. A distinct positive when viewing downloaded pdfs these days.You can also set the Sumatra file menu options to open the file in another (or several) reader (I use Foxit too). You can even configure an option to open it in a second copy of sumatra, useful if you want to refer to two parts of the same document side by side.

author: HoracioDos
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 28, 2019, 11:37:12 am
content: Hi.You can use gimpDjvu plugin with djvulibre library. This allows gimp to open djvu files.

author: Canis Dirus Leidy
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2019, 12:42:36 am
content: Just in case. Here is the “official” djvulibre site with a djview viewer:http://djvu.sourceforge.net

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2019, 12:28:09 pm
content: We have too many formats today, including those for eBook readers.Kindle? has its ownKomodo? has its ownothers? has their own, but a few of them seem to prefer DJVUdunno, but it's so confusing

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2019, 12:31:14 pm
content: Code:app-text/pdf2djvuHomepage: http://jwilk.net/software/pdf2djvuDescription: A tool to create DjVu files from PDF filesthis is what I am currently using for converting PDF into DjVu

author: Nominal Animal
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 30, 2019, 09:35:19 pm
content: ghostscript and texlive also contain DJVU-to-PDF converters (dvipdf, and dvipdfm and dvipdfmx, respectively).

author: legacy
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2019, 11:07:53 am
content: Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 30, 2019, 09:35:19 pmyup, but ... I am experimenting a lot of troubles with texlive and Latex-core.The last-stable one is the 2018 version and it has troubles with perl v2.26.I recompiled it for HPPA and PPC, but ... it cost 2 weeks of stuff fixing.

author: Technobabble_
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 05, 2019, 01:54:26 pm
content: If you are still looking to convert DJVU to PDF I have been content with Calibrehttps://calibre-ebook.com/. It also organizes all your files if you read on a tablet/ereader.