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WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)

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Mr_Rose:

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--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 09 Jul 2020, 08:08 ---PDF is a proprietary standard that became popular then became an actual standard but is still largely run by the originating company for their own apps and is thus grossly inefficient and occasionally prone to breaking existing readers when new features are added. But it remains popular because only five people use XPS and no one knows DjVu even exists.

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I was interested in the DjVu format you mentioned, and was then rapidly disappointed to learn that it has basically died a while ago already :(

AH well, sticking to PDFs it is for now....My only problem with it really is the near-monopolistic position of Adobe when it comes to editing them

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Yeah, I’ve encountered it exactly once in a whole career in IT. It’s a cool technology but that’s pretty much all. Even Microsoft putting an XPS virtual printer into every copy of Windows hasn’t gotten it much recognition so anything more obscure than ‘already part of the majority of consumer pcs’ won’t get a look in.

pwhodges:
I have also only encountered DjVu once - and that was not even as part of my life-long IT career!

Is it cold in here?:
Hannerdad doesn't strike me as the sort to be politically effective. He can hire people for that of course.

cesium133:
I find it interesting that Hannerdad's company may benefit financially from his proposal: if the government passed universal AI maintenance coverage, they would need to build up capability quickly, which would mean relying on private sector companies that already have the necessary experience, such as Hannerdad's company.

BenRG:
@cesium133,

Although, in fairness to Dr John, that's the sort of thing Beatrice would have thought of, not him.

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