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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
Cc: 44504@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44504: 27.1; feature request: doc-view support for Djvu documents
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2020 18:08:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rh56tf4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50008.47489.95516.24486@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (winkler@gnu.org)

> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 09:55:04 -0600
> From: "Roland Winkler" <winkler@gnu.org>
> 
> I suggest to add a backend for Djvu documents to doc-view.  (See the
> website http://djvu.sourceforge.net/ describing the Djvu format and
> hosting the DjVuLibre library.)  While I am maintaining djvu.el in
> GNU Elpa, the purpose of this package is to edit Djvu documents.  So
> the relation between djvu.el and doc-view is similar to the relation
> between ps-mode and doc-view.  For users who only want to view Djvu
> documents, the fairly big machinery of djvu.el can be rather
> confusing.
> 
> The command line tool ddjvu from DjVuLibre converts Djvu documents
> to various bitmap formats (pbm, pgm, ppm, pnm, rle, and tiff).
> So I believe this should be sufficient for doc-view.  It is also
> possible to extract the text layer of Djvu documents.

SGTM, thanks.  Patches to this effect are welcome.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-07 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-07 15:55 bug#44504: 27.1; feature request: doc-view support for Djvu documents Roland Winkler
2020-11-07 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-07 17:28 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-08  0:52   ` Roland Winkler
2020-11-09 14:39     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-09 15:24       ` Roland Winkler
2020-11-09 15:30         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-09 15:33         ` Roland Winkler
2020-11-09 15:56           ` Rudolf Schlatte
2020-11-10 13:53           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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