lolguinness wrote:webfork (who loves Java) to post about it.
I suppose I should do something on that, given that we have several DJVU tools and no viewer. I had hoped one of the many PDF viewers out there would just add support for DJVU files.
Sumatra's developer is available to patches for his program that include DJVU support, but isn't pursuing it. PDF Xchange has discussed it but I couldn't figure out if they cared.
I think everyone's just waiting for a suite of utilities that does a whole lot of stuff to showcase DJVU and really see it shine over the Adobe format. I obviously hope that suite is portable.
Sadly, while doing research for this post, it looks like there are patents and commercial-use issues associated with this format similar to Adobe PDF. Apart from compression and security improvements, this is the primary reason to move your documents away from the PDF format. If I was an IP lawyer with a little time on my hands, I'd try to get them to license it in a more open/patent-free format.