Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:22:30 -0700 (PDT) From: David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AT&T DjVu for FreeBSD Message-ID: <199808062022.NAA08219@board67.cruzers.com> In-Reply-To: <35C9E410.F4C7D6B6@ms11.hinet.net> References: <XFMail.980806081313.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> <35C9E410.F4C7D6B6@ms11.hinet.net>
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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. > On another side note, I was *very* impressed that this plugin worked so easily with navigator on FreeBSD! Are there any other FreeBSD plugins available that are worth checking out? Thanks for the pointer. -david. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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