[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Rainbow magazines wanted for scanning

[Jeff Teunissen]

Arthur Flexser wrote:

> Are you sure you mean 10-25 TIMES smaller than PDF, and not 10-25 PERCENT

> smaller?  I looked at the Wikipedia article, and it cites an external

> link ("DjVu vs. PDF comparison") where DjVu came out 25% better than

> PDF.  Wikipedia itself simply says, "it gives smaller files than PDF

> for most scanned documents," which seems like a very weak statement if

> DjVu is really typically 10 to 25 TIMES better in compression.


Done properly, the results are about a tenth the size for _scanned_ document. 
For other stuff, you *might* save 25%.

Unfortunately, the software everyone seems to be using should almost be 
outlawed, it really is that bad.