DjVu Solo is a tool for generating djvu format files with the ability to import information directly from the scanner. The application can work as a full-format viewer. Provides full-screen viewing with the function of changing the background color, brightness and contrast of displayed pages. Includes side menu for fast transition by page, supports zooming and adding notes on top of the material being viewed.

The program is able to generate new documents by importing bitmaps from a local folder or input device. Contains a sorting tool, applies uniform settings for data compression. Allows you to control the resolution, number of colors and intensity parameters in manual or automatic mode.

The utility includes tools for printing documents, supports adding bookmarks and exporting individual pages in jpg format.

Download for free the full Russian version of DjVu Solo from the official site without registration and SMS.

System requirements

• Supported OS: Windows XP, 10, 8.1, 7, Vista, 8
• Bit depth: 64 bit, x86, 32 bit

With Russian-language interface (required additional installation cracker, link below). It has not been updated since 2000, so it only works stably on Windows 7 and XP.

The interface is classic - on top is a panel with buttons, below on the left is a panel with page thumbnails, and on the right is a viewing area. Files are opened in the program not in tabs, but each in its own window, which looks strange. Page navigation is carried out by arrows on the toolbar. Supports fast "rewind" for 10 pages forward and backward, and an instant jump to the first or last page.

Features of DjVu Solo

• viewing books in original size or scale;
• choice between color and black-and-white display of content;
• turning pages with hot keys on the keyboard (CTRL + N, CTRL + R);
• showing page thumbnails;
• page display mode in slide show format;
• printing a document on a printer and to a file;
• streamlining open windows with books in cascade and mosaic;
• displaying information about the number of the open page and the set scale on the bottom panel.

DjVu Solo has a built-in DjVu editing tool. Supports inserting pages from one book to another, merging books and splitting, changing the background color, inserting hyperlinks and setting the scale at which the book will open by default;

Also, the program can scan real paper books and create new DjVu files from them. To do this, a scanner or MFP must be connected to the computer, of course.

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How to install DjVu Solo in Russian

Download the program and run the installer. In each window, click the "Next" button. Then, after installation, and extract it. Run crack as administrator. DjVu Solo itself should not be running. In the folder selection window, click the "Browse" button and on the "C" drive, find and select the directory Program Files (x86)\LizardTech\DjVu Solo 3.1. If you have 32-bit Windows installed, do not change the default folder in this window, but immediately click "Next". In the next window, agree with everything and click the "Install" button.

The program can be downloaded from our website

The developer of DjVu Solo is the same LizardTech. The program is available in two versions - free version and paid (commercial). The paid version of DjVu Solo, compared to the free version, has a number of advantages.

The program itself is not very complicated and it will not be difficult to understand it. Viewing djvu is possible only on one page, on the right DjVu Solo builds a tape of page previews, however, many can do it too.
When viewing documents, you can choose different viewing modes - color, black and white, highlight background or foreground. Indeed, in some cases, the use of different modes can improve the quality of the displayed djvu document:

Also, DjVu Solo is rich in a number of other features. You can add various notes on top of the text, highlight them with color, add a comment, bookmark, etc. There are also document display brightness settings and similar settings for printing, which can be very useful as some djvu books and documents can be scanned in very poor quality.

Creating a djvu file in DjVu Solo

To create djvu files, we either need to have prepared images of scanned pages, or you can scan pages in the DjVu Solo program itself.
In order to scan a document in DjVu Solo you need to:

• Select a scanner, by this point the scanner should already be connected to the computer and all drivers should be installed.
  To do this, select the menu item File - Select Source, and a window will open in which all scanners installed in the system will be listed. We select the required one.
• Click the icon with the image of the scanner, located on the toolbar of the program. Once the scan is complete, the page will appear in the list.

Along with scanning, DjVu Solo allows you to add new pages from already scanned documents. Images can be in many common graphic formats, so DjVu Solo understands jpg, gif, png, tif and some others.
To add pages to the program (each page is now presented in the form separate file) select the menu item File - open (open), select the file we need to create djvu and click open. In doing so, it will create new document. Addendum additional pages should be done differently: right-click on the preview of the already added page and select "Insert page(s) after" from the menu. After that, a dialog box for selecting files will open, and it will be possible to select several files at once.

After the pages are added, and no matter how it was done, either by scanning or opening existing images, you can start generating a djvu file.

A free program for creating and reading DjVu files. You can download the program at http://www.lizardtech.com.

The DjVu format appeared a long time ago, but has gained popularity recently. The format was created by AT&T and sold to LizardTech, who created several programs to work with this format. DjVu Solo was the first trial program to create DjVu files, after which LizardTech created commercial program Document Express, the professional sixth version of which was released not so long ago. DjVu Solo 3.1 program this moment does not develop further. Many associate the slow spread DjVu format with the fact that the Document Express Pro 6 program is now asking for simply unthinkable money. At the same time, the DjVu Solo 3.1 program allows you to create files in the DjVu format, although it does not understand Russian texts, that is, it does not recognize text and does not separate it into a separate layer, treating it as image elements. But it doesn't really matter.

So, what is the DjVu format and what is it for.

Imagine the following example: you have a rare technical book and you want to digitize it, in other words, scan it. There are no problems with scanning. But further difficulties may arise. What are scanned files? These are the most common images, usually in JPG format. What is any technical book: text, pictures, formulas. We will not talk about tables, since they are closest to the text. ABBYY Fine Reader 10.0, ABBYY Scan To Office 2.0, CuneiForm 12 Master and many others are designed for text recognition. These programs can also recognize drawings and import them into a text document. And here there are several "buts". Firstly, the text is recognized, but it is usually imported into a text document in the form not of the font with which it is typed in the document, but of the one selected for import. If there are many fonts in the book, they may lose their original settings. Secondly, many characters are still recognized with large errors or not recognized at all. This mainly applies to the Greek script, upper and subscripts etc. But we warned at the very beginning that we were going to digitize a technical book, that is, a book usually stuffed with various formulas. And, thirdly, with the decorative design of the book, most likely, you will also have to say goodbye to text recognition. All this will have to be restored in text document already after manual recognition, that is, for a long time. To do this, you need to have exactly the same fonts on your PC, waste your time and, as a result, still not get the design style that was in the book.

That is, we have seen that the recognition of a complex technical document is likely to lead to a dead end. No matter how powerful recognition programs are now, they still have limitations.

So, we are back to the original scanned files, which are stored as images. Another way is to create a book from these images. But images take up a huge amount of disk space. Store a book of 800 pages, 2 pages in one file - 400 files. If each file is approximately 200 KB, then the total size will be approximately 80 MB.

The DjVu format just allows you to bypass all the shortcomings of both text recognition and creating a book from images. This format occupies an intermediate position between text recognition and image storage. Scanned pages are stored as images, but take up about 10 times less space than the most economical graphic formats. For example: we scanned a book spread (2 pages). In JPG format, the file size was approximately 200 KB. When this image was converted to DjVu format, the volume became more than 10 times smaller: from 16 to 21 KB. At the same time, the quality of the pages did not deteriorate. The pages will look the way they did on the scanned page, i.e. with shadows on the fold. In addition, the DjVu Solo 3.1 program allows you to compose a book by page. That is, the book becomes a single whole and there is no need to remember which pages are stored in which file.

Note: by the way, about the shadows on the spread of the pages. Recent studies have shown that it is easier for a person to read e-books simulating a real book.

DjVu Solo 3.1 splits the image into three layers: foreground, background and black and white mask. The mask saves the text first. This is done as follows: characters of the same font are sorted, and only one each character is remembered, and in place of all other of the same characters, the addresses of their location on the book page are remembered. Thus, much less memory is needed than to save the entire text. If several fonts are used in the text, then memorization is performed for each font separately. Illustrations and paper texture are preserved on the background. Therefore, those characters that are not recognized as characters are remembered in the background. The volume of a multi-page book is many times less than the sum of the volumes of individual pages if they were stored on separate pages. This effect is achieved by storing only one collection of symbols per font.

All layers are on top of each other and visually when viewing the page of the book it is impossible to distinguish them from each other.

Well, if we convinced you that this format is vital for you, and with it you will become a great specialist, then go ahead, to knowledge.

Getting the first page of a book

After starting the program, the working window of the program opens (Fig. 156).

Rice. 156. Working window of the program DjVu Solo 3.1

The working window opens empty, since the page images still need to be received. You can get source images not necessarily with this program, but scan them in any program that allows you to scan. If the scan was performed previously, then you must click on the button open(Open) () and select the start graphic file. DjVu Solo 3.1 understands several popular graphic formats: JPG , GIF , TIFF , BMP , PICT , PNM .

If you want to scan source pages from DjVu Solo 3.1, then click on the button Scan(Scan) (). After that it starts standard program for scanning, that is, there is no built-in driver for the scanner in DjVu Solo 3.1. After scanning is completed, the image is loaded into the working window of the DjVu Solo 3.1 program. I draw your attention to the fact that an image is being loaded that has yet to be converted to DjVu format.

Note: if you have several scanners connected to your PC, then run the command file → select source(File → Select Source) and select one of the scanners.

To convert the received (or opened) image to DjVu format, you need to execute the command file → Encode As DjVu(File → Convert to DjVu). Save the resulting file.

Getting the next pages of a book

To scan the next image, press the button again. Scan(Scan) (). Each scanned image is placed in separate window. Therefore, after each scan, you need to convert the resulting images to DjVu format, save and close the window with such an image after saving. As soon as you try to save the resulting image, the program will offer to convert this image to DjVu format when saving. That is, you should have an open book with pages converted to DjVu. To continue the book, execute one of the commands in the menu section Edit(Edit):

• Append Page(s)- insert pages at the end of the book. It does not matter which page is selected in the window. preview;
• Insert Page(s) Before- insert pages before the selected page in the preview panel;
• Insert Page(s) After- insert pages after the selected page in the preview panel.

Note: the preview panel is located on the left side of the working window. Pages are presented as icons. To disable or reclosing preview panel run the command Thumbnails→ Show Thumbnails(Icons → Show icons). The panel with pages is visible if in the command Show Thumbnails checked. To change the borders between the preview pane and open page, place the mouse on the separating panels vertical line so that a double-headed arrow appears. Click on the mouse and, without releasing it, drag left or right.

After executing any of these commands, a window opens. Open, in which you need to select one or more files in DjVu format and click on the button Open. After including individual pages in a book source files DjVu are no longer needed and can be removed. If several pages are connected to the book at once, then the source files for them are selected using the Ctrl key: select the first file, then press the Ctrl key and, without releasing it, click on all the opened files one by one. Release the Ctrl key.

If some pages were included in the set by mistake, then they can be removed from the book. Select such pages in the page list and right-click on them. From the context menu that appears, run the command Delete Page(s).

Book page navigation

To move through the pages of the book, you can use the toolbar buttons or menu section commands. Navigate(Navigation). The menu section provides the entire list of navigation commands (key combinations are indicated in brackets) (button on the toolbar):

Book page views

To view pages by layers on the toolbar and in the menu section view → display(View → Display) the following modes are offered:

If some layers are missing, then on the page this layer will look like an empty one. For example, in the mode Color Mode visible shadows on the spread of the pages. If you do not need them, then turn on the mode Black & White Mode and the shadow on the spread will not be visible.

Reading a book or watching a slideshow

Before reading a book, click on the page area (on the right side of the working window). If you do not do this, then the command to read the book may not be available. After that, the command is executed slide show→ Start slideshow(Slideshow → Start slideshow) or press the F 2 key on the PC keyboard. Viewing the pages of the book is performed in full screen of the monitor. Page turning is done with mouse clicks. After scrolling through the last page of the book, the program returns to the working window of the program. To force return to the working window of the program, press the Esc key on the PC keyboard. The pages of the book are viewed in the mode that was previously selected in the working window before reading was started. However, the view mode can be changed while reading a book. For this you need to call context menu pages and set the mouse on the section display(Display) and select the desired reading mode or page scale ( Zoom(Scale)). In the context menu in reading mode, you can also change the view zoom.

Hyperlinks

We will start not with the hyperlinks themselves, but thematically adjacent to them - these are the highlighted areas. Highlighted areas are areas that need to be highlighted in some way so that the reader pays attention to them. Highlighting is done with a color, yellow by default. A button is used to create a backlight. highlight area(Highlight area) () on the toolbar. Create a rectangular area on the page where you want to select some fragment of the page. You do not need to create this rectangular area exactly, since it is much easier to adjust it later using the tool edit mode(Edit mode) (). As soon as you finish creating the highlighted area, a window will open immediately. Highlight Area Properties(Highlight area properties). We will discuss the parameters of this window a little later, but for now, just click on the button OK. Choose a tool edit mode(Edit mode) (). After that, place the mouse pointer on one of the corner or middle markers located around the perimeter of the highlighted area. After that, a double-headed arrow should appear (Fig. 157). Click and drag the mouse in the desired direction. To remove a highlight area, right-click on it and from the context menu that appears, execute the command Hyperlinks→ Delete(Hyperlinks → Delete). To edit the parameters of the highlight area, call the context menu of this area and execute the command Hyperlinks→ Edit(Hyperlinks → Edit).

Hyperlinks allow you to create in a book Additional information without increasing the size of the file in which the book is stored. There are three tools for creating hyperlinks: Rectangular Hyperlink(Rectangular hyperlink) (), Oval Hyperlink(Oval hyperlink) (), Polygon Hyperlink(Polygonal hyperlink) (). Rectangular and oval regions are created diagonally from one corner to the other. The polygonal hyperlink area is created by clicks showing the corners of the polygon. Completion of the creation is done by double-clicking. After creating a hyperlink, a window opens. Hyperlink Properties(Hyperlink properties), the parameters of which we are skipping for now. Click on the button OK.

After creating a hyperlink, its borders can be easily adjusted using the tool edit mode(Edit mode) (). Hyperlinks can only be viewed in Book Preview mode. To do this, click on the button preview mode(Preview mode) (). When you hover over the hyperlink area with the mouse pointer, a tooltip pops up (Fig. 158). Click the mouse to end viewing the hint, otherwise the hint will remain on the screen, and not only on the page on which the hyperlink area is located, but also on any page in the book. Until the mouse is clicked, that is, until the previous hyperlink is closed, there may be problems viewing the next link.

Configuring hyperlink and highlight area settings

After creating hyperlinks or highlight areas, a window opens. Hyperlink Properties(Hyperlink properties) or Highlight Area Properties(Highlight area properties). Until now, we did not configure the parameters in these windows, but immediately clicked on the button OK. Consider these parameters in the table (Table 4).

Table 4. Settings for hyperlinks and highlight areas

	Purpose
	Hide the border so that it is not visible. If the Always Visible option is enabled, then the border in preview mode is still visible
	The line is 1 pixel thick. This is the fastest setting.
	1 pixel thick line of the selected color
Shadow Etched In	The border appears to be submerged
Shadow Etched Out	The border looks raised
	Specifies the width of the shadow when Shadow In, Shadow Out, Shadow Etched In, or Shadow Etched Out is selected.
color	Appears when the Plain Border value is selected and makes the Choose Color button available, which is needed to select the color of the hyperlink or highlight the highlight border
always visible
highlight area	Enabled option activates the Choose Color button
Choose color	Click the button to open the color palette and select the fill color for the hyperlink or highlight area
Link to
Page Number or Page Name	Specifies the page number or name when you create a link to another page of the same document
	Defines full address(including the http:// prefix) when you link to a URL
Target	Specifies where the page should be displayed when you link to a URL (same frame or window, new window, or other location)

In a multiline field Description Specify the hint text that will appear when hovering over the hyperlink area or highlight area.

Printing a Document

To print a DjVu document, do one of the following:

Execute the command file→ print(File → Print) from the main menu;

After performing any of these actions, a window opens. Seal(Fig. 159).

Listed Name printer is selected. Please note that a printer can be not only a real printer, but also a virtual one. Can be done with virtual printer convert file from DjVu format to PDF format. For example, you may want to convert a file from DjVu format to Microsoft format word. You cannot directly convert, but first convert the file to PDF, and then from PDF format convert to Microsoft Word format, you can. For example, this can be done using ABBYY Transformer 3.0.

On panel Print range specify the pages to be printed. Press the button to start printing. OK.