[Xitami] Configuring your Web server to handle the DjVu MIME Types

Paul Reid xitami@lists.xitami.org
Tue, 01 Jan 2002 18:56:36 -0500


> DjVu is a new file format 

The format looks very useful so I installed the plug-in. 

Argh.

"Auto-install" ran around in circles. I installed manually,
verified that DjVu was showing in Plug-Ins.

Even so, it is VERY hard to find a "working" DjVu page. Most of
them, on various servers, come up as gibberish. Yes, those
extensions are set in my browser. Are ALL these webmasters
posting bigabytes of files that don't work because of server
configuration?

The djvuzone page has some hard to find links to samples. The
Franklin catalog works GREAT: this blows-away PDF. 

But most sites just make my browser want to download. So I saved
a DjVu file to my machine, then forced NetScape to look at the
file. Interestingly, now it opens the viewer, but the document is
blank.

I dunno. I see rave reviews and lots of stuff posted in this
format, but it mostly don't work for me. 

 -PRR