.DJVU – Open, Highly Compressed .PDF Alternative

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I’m personally pretty keen to find an alternative to the proprietary format that is PDF.

Anyone used this format, I can’t remember Harding of it before I came across this today. Beyond being not as widely spread any special drawbacks or benefits worth mentioning?

It was very popular for scanned books in 2000-2005. It has(had?) a better compression method for images, so the files were smaller. I'm not sure why, but it disappeared.

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