How to make Djvu files
From Djvu
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The Djvu file format gives new life to our paper books.
It's the easiest way of exchange, storage and viewing of scanned books.
See why - with figures and examples See here what is Djvu
Now I will explain, in short, how are these files produced:
We assume that we have in the beginning:
- a 2-color book with only letters, digits and formulas
- a multicolor book with illustrations - a magazine or a newspaper
- a jpeg,gif or a pdf - like files which you want to compress with djvu
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When there is a "TODO" - more will be written.
Short Version
- you scan the book - a good contrast is important - experiment with the scan wizard of your WinXP
- with djvu small you encode into Djvu - try different profiles of encoding in order to get the smallest file with a good quallity , of course
Djvu_small is the best and easiest solution for me (and you) - with quallity of encoding in mind - I tried about 10 other ...
- You are ready!
- With WinDjView you can view your Djvu. If you wish tell your browser to use WinDjview.
- Some info about your Djvu browser plugin (for IE and Mozilla just download and start it; for Opera - read below):
Go to Lizardtech and download the installation file for your OS.
A folder named "DjVu Control" will be placed under "Program Files/LizardTech" by default in Windows. Copy the file "npdjvu.dll" from this folder to Opera's "Program/Plugins" folder and restart Opera.
[TODO_test_mozilla_IE]
If you have questions: 
Long and thorough Version
Here come all the details. TODO
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