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by xdavidliu 1401 days ago
djvu is really quite a marvellous format, but I'm only able to read them on Evince (the default pdf reader that comes with Debian, Fedora, and probably a bunch of other distros). For my macbook I need to download a Djvu reader, and for my ipad, I didn't even bother trying because the experience would likely be much worse than Preview / Ibooks.
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dredmorbius 1401 days ago
DJVU is supported by numerous book-reading applications, including (in my experience) FB Reader (FS/OSS), Pocketbook, and Onyx's Neoreader.

As a format for preserving full native scan views (large, but often strongly preferable for visually-significant works or preserving original typesetting / typography), DJVU is highly useful.

I do wish that it were more widely supported by both toolchains and readers. That will come in time, I suspect.

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MichaelCollins 1401 days ago
Calibre supports djvu on any platform. Deleting djvu books just because Microsoft and Apple don't see fit to support it by default would be a travesty.
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eru 1401 days ago
Apparently you can install Evince on MacOS as well. But I haven't tried it there.

Evince doesn't come by default with Archlinux (my desktop distribution of choice), but I still install it everywhere.

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nsajko 1401 days ago
> Evince doesn't come by default with Archlinux (my desktop distribution of choice)

This doesn't make sense; nothing comes "by default" on Arch, but evince is in the official repos as far as I see.

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eru 1400 days ago
A few things come by default on Arch. See the list at https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/base/ (many some of these entries like coreutils expand to more packages).

Yes, evince is in the official repos. Just like Chromium and Firefox. Or bash, but not any other shell (as far as I can tell).

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