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MuPDF 1.2 (2013-02-27) -- MUTOOL + MUDRAW (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 06.05.2013, 18:23

> My .ZIP of
> P5
> Pascal would shrink in half (4.8 MB to 2.3 MB) if I removed the
> bloated ISO7185.PDF file. (I'm not sure what advantages the
> pages-as-scanned-images PDF version has over the included .html conversion.
> IIRC there are no graphics and barely any fonts or fancy text. In other
> words, probably useless, but oh well. Even using "ps2pdf" via gs 8.71 on
> the .ps [made with TeX/WEB/Pascal] from elsewhere is 1/10th of the size
> [400 kb vs. 4000 kb]. So meh.)

Apparently it was run through some OCR program (OmniPage Pro?) in order to have embeddable, selectable text.

> I even had trouble with DuglView not working for me.

Apparently it doesn't like running from G:\ RAM disk, but it works okay atop C:\ hard drive.

> In particular, I know image viewers try to choose the biggest, most
> color-appropriate mode for each image, but it's annoying when this
> particular desktop (monitor? low-end integrated gfx?) takes like three
> seconds to changes modes for every file. It really doesn't need to change
> mode between "pages" using the same resolution and colors.

Dugl Viewer supports this (no mode changes), though I can't remember if it's default or has to be tweaked in config file.

> My old mu_tl_dw.7z is 6.5 MB while I can compress a newer one via "7za a
> -mx9 -md=16m new mutool.exe mudraw.exe" to only 3.5 MB. Both still seem to
> need approx. 21 MB of DPMI (eg. "dpmi -m 0x5000") under DOSEMU for "7za t".
> So whatever I thought I was accomplishing, it didn't work (and just bloated
> up the main .7z).

I also later tried XZ Utils, out of curiosity, but apparently its --memlimit intentionally doesn't actually work these days (though at least verbose tells you approx. how much RAM will be needed to decompress). Meh.

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XPDF 3.03 (DJGPP) - Rugxulo, 19.05.2012, 04:24 (Announce)
- XPDF 3.03 (DJGPP) - RayeR, 19.05.2012, 15:04
  - XPDF 3.03 (DJGPP) - Rugxulo, 19.05.2012, 20:03
    - XPDF 3.03 (DJGPP) - Doug, 19.05.2012, 22:12
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        XPDF 3.03 (DJGPP) - Doug, 20.05.2012, 23:28
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        MUPDF with NXlib released - Rugxulo, 22.05.2012, 00:57
        MUPDF with NXlib released - RayeR, 22.05.2012, 15:59
        MUPDF with NXlib released - georgpotthast, 22.05.2012, 21:14
        MUPDF with NXlib released - RayeR, 23.05.2012, 00:03
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- XPDF 3.03 (DJGPP) + MUPDF - DOS386, 13.06.2012, 11:24
  - MuPDF 1.1 (2012-08-16) - DOS386, 05.11.2012, 03:43
    - MuPDF 1.2 (2013-02-27) - Rugxulo, 27.04.2013, 02:56
      - MuPDF 1.2 (2013-02-27) - Rugxulo, 28.04.2013, 10:50
        MuPDF 1.2 (2013-02-27) ||| MUTOOL - DOS386, 28.04.2013, 15:50
        MuPDF 1.2 (2013-02-27) -- MUTOOL + MUDRAW - Rugxulo, 01.05.2013, 15:16
        MuPDF 1.2 (2013-02-27) -- MUTOOL + MUDRAW - Rugxulo, 06.05.2013, 18:23
        MuPDF 1.2 (2013-02-27) -- MUTOOL + MUDRAW | scan crap - DOS386, 23.05.2013, 11:20
        XPDF 3.04 released 2014-May-28 - DOS386, 06.07.2016, 10:24
        XPDF 3.04 released 2014-May-28 (tests) - DOS386, 08.07.2016, 08:10