[jbig2-cvs] rev 302 - website

giles at ghostscript.com giles at ghostscript.com
Thu Dec 4 09:09:48 PST 2003


Author: giles
Date: 2003-12-04 08:59:14 -0800 (Thu, 04 Dec 2003)
New Revision: 302

Modified:
   website/index.html
Log:
Update website for 0.5 release.


Modified: website/index.html
===================================================================
--- website/index.html	2003-12-04 16:24:55 UTC (rev 301)
+++ website/index.html	2003-12-04 16:59:14 UTC (rev 302)
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@
 efficient, offering compression ratios on the order of 100:1.</p>
 
 <p>This is a decoder only implementation, and currently is in the alpha stage, meaning it
-doesn't completely work yet.</p>
+doesn't completely work yet. However, we are maintaining parity with available encoders, so it 
+is useful for real work.</p>
 
 <p>The specificication has been published as ISO IEC 14492 and ITU T.88. These documents
 completely describe the format and they'll be required if you want to understand the code and
@@ -41,7 +42,8 @@
 href="http://svn.ghostscript.com/">svn.ghostscript.com</a>.</p>
 
 <p>The latest release is 
-<a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28301&release_id=175272">jbig2dec 0.4</a>.</p>
+<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=28301&release_id=201710">jbig2dec
+0.5</a>.</p>
 
 <p>For testing, we have one example file from the draft spec.
 Dave Tompkins has a number of 
@@ -50,8 +52,11 @@
 
 <p>CVision offers some PDF-embedded <a
 href="http://www.cvisiontech.com/jbig2_samplelinks.html">example files</a> from their CVista
-compressor. The raw bitstreams will need to be extracted from the PDF wrapper before they can
-be fed to jbig2dec.</p>
+compressor. Likes Adobe has some <a
+href="http://www.adobe.com/products/acrcapture/agentpack/main.html#Anchor-Compression-3800">examples</a>
+available from their encoder. The raw bitstreams will need to be extracted from the PDF wrapper before they can
+be fed to jbig2dec, or you can link recent versions of Ghostscript with the jbig2dec library
+and use that to parse the pdf files directly.</p>
 
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