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DjVu Browser Plug-in 3.5.2 Upgrade Released by
LizardTech
A review by James Rile, PlanetDjVu, February 1,
2002 On January
22, 2002, LizardTech released the 3.5.1 upgrade to the the Version 3.5
DjVu Browser Plug-in for Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME, and XP. Support
for XP is new in this upgrade. Click here for the LizardTech DjVu Browser Plug-in
Installation page. The
Version 3.5.2 update is available in English, French and German.
The Japanese version released initially on 9/5/2001 is no
longer available from the LizardTech site. As before,
you have an option to auto-install the Viewer plugin, or to download and
do a manual installation. The
InstallShield installation program for all 3 language versions has been
improved and streamlined. You are no longer required to reboot the
computer after installation. However, I found in Windows 2000 that after
upgrading from version 3.5.1 to 3.5.2, the old version of the plugn-in
continued to load until I had rebooted the computer. This did not
happen on another PC however. To verify
that the update is in effect after installing, open a DjVu file,
right-click to display the menu, and select "About DjVu". If it does
not say "Version 3.5.200", you need to reboot the PC to get the upgraded
plug-in to load. The
installation program now allows you to specify which web browsers on your
system you wish to install to, and it makes the default Windows browser
the default browser in which to launch DjVu files. For the
French and German versions, the installation program and the help file are
in these languages. However, the right-click menu and the tooltips remain
in English. Version
3.5.2 is a maintenance upgrade that fixes a number of problems, notably
the removal of end-of-line characters (little square boxes) that were
previously included in text that was copied from a page. One final
note: If you are a user of the Opera web-browser, you can install to
Netscape and then manually copy the plug-in files to the plug-ins folder
of Opera. - end of
review Readme
File for the DjVu 3.5.2 Browser Plug-in For Windows
(note that
you will not see this during installation, but will find it in the
plug-ins folder of your browser) DjVu Browser Plug-in
3.5.200
Copyright
(c) 2001 LizardTech, Inc.
All
rights reserved -------------------------------------------------------------------
README File Contents
------------------------------------------------------------------- I System Requirements
II Installation
Instructions
III Release Notes
IV Known Issues
V Reporting Problems
VI Licenses and
Trademarks -------------------------------------------------------------------
I System Requirements
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Minimum system requirements for the DjVu Web
Browser Plug-in
-Windows 98, NT, 2000, ME,
XP
-1.5 MB of available
hard-disk space for installed product
for each browser
running on the user's machine
-64 MB of RAM
-Netscape Navigator 4.x or
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
-Internet Connection for
installation
-Mouse or other pointing
device -------------------------------------------------------------------
II Install DjVu Browser Plug-in
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1. Close
all DjVu documents and applications before installing.
2. Double
click on the DjVuWebBrowserPlug-in.exe.
3. Review
the license agreement and select Yes if you agree
with its
terms.
4. Select
Finish to complete the installation.
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III Release Notes
------------------------------------------------------------------- -Feature update: Improved
caching support for Internet Explorer.
-Feature update: The
installer sets your default HTML browser to be the
default DjVu application
without prompting you for a choice.
-Feature update: Stability
improvements have been made to the ActiveX
control for DjVu.
-Feature update: Copy Image
is supported for NT and Win2000.
-Feature update: The plug-in
no longer displays error messages related to
"Stop" messages for child
threads.
-Documentation update: To
customize the default placement of the toolbar
use the <embed> or
<object> tags in the HTML text of the web page
as follows,
TOOLBAR=top/bottom.
-Documentation Update: To
set the default alignment of the DjVu file in
the viewing window type the
<embed> or <object> tags in the HTML text of the
web page using
DOC_ALIGN="one of nine options".
-Documentation update: To
set the default rotation of a DjVu file in the
viewing window type the
<embed> or <object> tag in the HTML text of the
document using ROTATE=180
degrees (90 for 90 degree, 270 for 270 degree).
The document rotates
clockwise.
-Documentation correction:
Zoom in increases from 5% to 25%, then
follows the settings from
the Select Zoom drop down menu to 300%.
Then the increases occur by
100% to a maximum of 1200%. The reverse
occurs for Zoom
Out.
-Documentation correction -
Zoom selected area only pertains to
the Zoom in
feature.
-Document
correction - The "passive" attribute, used with the <embed> or
<object> tags, has been changed
to properly reflect that it is not a binary
attribute.
To use the "passive" attribute, use "&passive" without the
"=yes/no"
qualifiers.
- Documentation correction -
The <object> tag may not good for Win98/ME
in combination with IE5.x,
as in the following example.
<object
type="image/x.djvu" data="foo.djvu" width=400 height=300>
<param name="src"
value="foo.djvu" >
</object>
A better way to
use object tag is:
<object
classid="clsid:0e8d0700-75df-11d3-8b4a-0008c7450c4a" width=400
height=300>
<param name="src"
value="foo.djvu">
However, both
examples work properly on WinNT/Win2000/XP and IE6.x -------------------------------------------------------------------
IV Known Issues
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The following known issues exist for the DjVu
Web Browser Plug-in: -Using Frames with DjVu:
When building a web page with frames, if you include
links to
pages of an indirect or bundled DjVu document in one frame and
want to
display the page of the document in the second frame, you may
see
the
plug-in reloading the new DjVu page. To avoid this behavior
use the
thumbnails feature for navigation within the DjVu document.
-Using
slow internet connections: When using a slow internet
connection,
such as a
28.8 modem, if you repeatedly click a thumbnail or a new page
before the
download is complete, Internet Explorer may appear to freeze.
This
problem is due to the messaging system in Windows not
immediately
communicating with the plug-in. The
plug-in is occupied with downloading
the DjVu
file, and does not receive the message from Internet Explorer
until
the download is complete.
-Caching
with DjVu: If you experience slow performance with the DjVu
plug-in,
increase
your cache size under Internet Explorer. -------------------------------------------------------------------
V Reporting Problems
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Report any comments,
problems, or suggestions to:
djvusupport@lizardtech.com See http://www.djvu.com/ for
more information.
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VI Licenses and Trademarks.
------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2002 LizardTech, Inc.
All rights reserved.
DjVu is a registered trademark of LizardTech,
Inc. This software is based in part on the work of the
Independent JPEG Group.
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