Subject: LizardTech Provides Open Source Access to DjVu
To: letters@lwn.net
From: Nathan_Rearick@sfo.cohnwolfe.com
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:33:05 -0800

MEDIA ADVISORY

              LizardTech Provides Open Source Access to DjVu

LizardTech, one of the world's leaders in imaging technologies, is
committed to developing DjVu to be the best technology for distributing
scanned documents over the Internet.  In an era of rapidly evolving
technology, LizardTech believes the best "standards" are those selected by
the market.

LizardTech has continued to innovate and improve DjVu, and has now
developed the DjVu Reference Library v.3.0, making available both encoding
and decoding capabilities under the terms of GNU General Public License.

DjVu is the scan-to-Web technology that converts documents into the
smallest file sizes possible  resulting in downloads up to 150 times faster
than
PDF. The results are crisp, clear documents that retain all the visual
quality of the original.  With DjVu, legacy documents, catalogs and books?
any paper-based item?can be converted into files that can be instantly
transmitted and viewed via a standard Web browser.

For additional information, visit:
http://lizardtech.com/products/djvu/referencelibrary/DjVuRefLib_3.0.html or
to speak with a LizardTech executive or receive a press kit, contact
Nathan Rearick at (415) 477-4531 or nathan_rearick@cohnwolfe.com.