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[pdf-devel] Re: jbig2dec now licensed GPLv2 or later
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Ralph Giles |
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[pdf-devel] Re: jbig2dec now licensed GPLv2 or later |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:36:15 -0800 |
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On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:38:58AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> Our idea is to generate JBIG2 data compressed using Huffman encoding
> instead of patented arithmetic encoding. AFAIK it is allowed by the
> JBIG2 standard.
But it also significantly harms compression efficiency. There
are alternatives that are similarly efficient, like type 3 fonts
in pdf, or mng as a raster output format.
-r