DjVuLibre 3.5.22

DjVu is a web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu can advantageously replace PDF, PS, TIFF, JPEG, and GIF for distributing scanned documents, digital documents, or high-resolution pictures.

DjVu content downloads faster, displays and renders faster, looks nicer on a screen, and consume less client resources than competing formats. DjVu images display instantly and can be smoothly zoomed and panned with no lengthy re-rendering.

DjVu is used by hundreds of commercial, academic, governmental but also non-commercial web sites all around the world.

DjVuLibre includes a standalone viewer, a browser plug-in (for Mozilla, Firefox, Konqueror, Netscape, Galeon, and Opera), and command line tools (decoders, encoders, utilities). DjVuLibre works under Unix with X11.

DjVu (pronounced "déjà vu") a set of compression technologies, a file format, and a software platform for the delivery over the Web of digital documents, scanned documents, and high resolution images.

DjVu documents download and display extremely quickly, and look exactly the same on all platforms with no compatibility problems due to fonts, colors, etc.

DjVu can be seen as a superior alternative to PDF and PostScript for digital documents, to TIFF (and PDF) for scanned bitonal documents, to JPEG and JPEG2000 for photographs and pictures, and to GIF for large palettized images.

DjVu is the only Web format that is practical for distributing high-resolution scanned documents in color. No other format comes close. 
 
In an effort to promote DjVu as a Web standard, LizardTech's management was enlightened enough to release the reference implementation of DjVu under the GNU GPL in October 2000.

DjVuLibre (pronounced like the French "déjà vu libre", which means free DjVu), is an enhanced version of that code maintained by the original inventors of DjVu. It is compatible with version 3.5 of LizardTech's DjVu software suite.

DjVuLibre includes:

· A standalone DjVu viewer for Unix under X11 (based on the Qt library).
· A browser plugin that works with most Unix browsers, including: Netscape-4.x, · Netscape-6.x, Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror, and Opera.
· A full-fledged wavelet-based compressor for pictures.
· A simple compressor for bitonal (black and white) scanned pages.
· A very simple compressor for scanned color pages.
· A compressor for palettized images (a la GIF/PNG).
· A full set of utilities to manipulate and assemble DjVu images and documents.
· A set of decoders to convert DjVu to a number of other formats.
· An up-to-date version of the C++ DjVu Reference Library.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Updated to djvulibre-3.5.22 and djview-4.5.
· See the changelog in the corresponding source packages.