12-29-2009, 12:41 PM
Hi neighbour!
IrfanView is a marvelous software (I am using it more than 10 years), and saving as PDF is a nice feature to make multipage files, but I found it strange why someone should reverse convert DjVu to PDF. Usually a scanned book is better to be in DjVu. Adobe's PDF has only advantage if the book is in text/vector/metafile format. If you compare the performance (speed and quality of the book-browsing) WinDjVu is visibly faster than Foxit PDFreader, and of course Adobe's Acrobat. And another advantage is that DjVu is very easy to work with and much faster than PDF on a PocketPC platform . I have some files that before PDF->DjVu they were impossible to be opened on a 128MB, 624Mhz PocketPC. After converting them to DjVu their display is perfect and smooth.
Of course I am considering only raster PDF files, as you are.
Maybe the only advantage of PDF(raster) over DjVu is it can be opened by somebody who has Adobe's Acrobat - and almost everybody has some type of this software.
IrfanView is a marvelous software (I am using it more than 10 years), and saving as PDF is a nice feature to make multipage files, but I found it strange why someone should reverse convert DjVu to PDF. Usually a scanned book is better to be in DjVu. Adobe's PDF has only advantage if the book is in text/vector/metafile format. If you compare the performance (speed and quality of the book-browsing) WinDjVu is visibly faster than Foxit PDFreader, and of course Adobe's Acrobat. And another advantage is that DjVu is very easy to work with and much faster than PDF on a PocketPC platform . I have some files that before PDF->DjVu they were impossible to be opened on a 128MB, 624Mhz PocketPC. After converting them to DjVu their display is perfect and smooth.
Of course I am considering only raster PDF files, as you are.
Maybe the only advantage of PDF(raster) over DjVu is it can be opened by somebody who has Adobe's Acrobat - and almost everybody has some type of this software.