[Buddha-l] Conze's Memoirs

[S.A. Feite]

On Jan 20, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Katherine Masis wrote:

> What in the world is a djvu file?  I downloaded Conze's memoirs  
> (all the rage on Buddha-L right now) and when I tried to open them,  
> the program that kicked in was Irfan View, which I use for images,  
> with an error message.  Any advice?
>
> Also, why was Conze against democracy and feminism (according to  
> Wikipedia)?


DjVu is a wavelet-based document format that can produce high- 
resolution images which are so small they can be streamed over even a  
dial-up connection. It's a shame Lizardtech never promoted the  
product in the way it should have. The technology was actually years  
ahead of it's time. It's still much smaller than my current version  
of Adobe Acrobat produced files. So for scanning books, it is  
excellent and file sizes are often 20 times or smaller than  
corresponding PDF's. It could make it possible to put libraries online.