Re: Packard Library

Posted by HH56 On 2009/5/7 12:29:36

Been around 3-4 yrs I believe. I hadn't spent much time there and from the thread on AACA, others were in same boat because it needed an unknown (to most) plugin to view their literature offerings.

I shy away from anything not standard but finally broke down and put it on after checking it out a bit & finding the djvu file was apparently legit. They do have some original older literature -- things not available here and the quality is good---in some cases very good.

The reasoning for the format as advertised is better quality for a smaller file size but looking at identical pieces from there and here, am not sure that is a totally valid argument. The pdfs here in comparable scan size are as good but are so much more widely supported--in large part native on the Mac and multiple viewing programs available on Windows. The djvu host plugin is not nearly as friendly on a Mac as either Preview or Reader--can't speak for the Windows version.