unfortunately, the author of xsane is no longer subscribed to this list. i would contact him directly with your suggestion, or try another frontend.
allan On 7/10/08, Julien Michielsen <julien at michkloo.xs4all.nl> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
