I recently stumbled upon the STDU Viewer (Scientific and Technical Documentation Viewer) software which is a fast viewer for Tiff, PDF and DjVU documents. I have never heard the term DjVU before and was a bit puzzled at first. The format that is pronounced déjà vu is being used to distribute high resolution scans of documents but also of digital documents and photos on the Internet.
DjVu needs only half the size than jpg images for photos of the same quality and displays photos of the same size in a higher better quality. Look at the comparison between jpg and djvu images, very interesting and a file format to look out for.
It’s one of the favorite formats for technical documentations and scientific documents. The viewer itself is a no thrills no frills viewer that can display the supported formats. It was designed with speed in mind, it opens pdf documents as fast, or even a bit faster, than Foxit Reader which is one of the fastest of its kind.
The main benefit of STDU Viewer is the support of the three mentioned formats and its speed. There is not really a reason to change from Foxit Reader to it if you only work with pdf documents on your system. If you use at least two of the formats it might be a viable alternative.
The official djvu website has a download section with additional clients for Windows, Mac and Linux plus an add-on for Microsoft Office.
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At http://djvu.org/resources/plugin/ I tried to install the djvu plugin in FF but couldn’t because I got this error message:
Not Found
The requested URL /resources/plugin/ was not found on this server.
Apache/1.3.27 Server at djvu.org Port 80
Also, whatever happened to JPG2000 which had better quality than JPEG?
I have never heard the term DjVU before and was a bit puzzled at first. The format that is pronounced déjà vu is being used to distribute high resolution scans of documents but also of digital documents and photos on the Internet.
Quite a popular format for scanned books distribution.
It was designed with speed in mind, it opens pdf documents as fast, or even a bit faster, than Foxit Reader which is one of the fastest of its kind.
But it has speed hiccups when scrolling them. So I dumped STDU and returned to Foxit, despite having some problems with it too.
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I’m really surprised that the djvu format hasn’t taken off. It has fantastic sharpness and extremely high compression rates, even color djvu files tend to be smaller than b/w pdf equivalents, and look sharper.
I’ve tried stduviewer and found it to be very slow as compared to others like WinDjView. But its plus point is that you can add bookmarks to djvu/pdf files.
Overall, okular is the best doc viewer out there. I wish it’s ported to windows.
Yeah this is painfully slow at djvu files compared to WinDjView.