Scanning aa A4 through my xsane (xsane-0.995-79.1 with sane-backends-1.0.19-48.1 and iscan-free-2.10.0.1-26.1) to a pdf-file I end up with a file that is bigger than a Mb. I specified compress options under preferences as png compression level 9, and remain amazed that running the pdf-ourput file through gs reduces the file-size with a factor greater than twelve (a.pdf 4560401 , while test.pdf 370760) after the command gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=test.pdf a.pdf
I raised this point earlier on this list, but either I didn't formulate it right, or I didn't understand the answer. I still keep wondering that the compressing knowledge of gs is not incorporated in xsane. -- Julien Michielsen julien_at_michkloo.xs4all.nl
