[sane-devel] ghostscript so much better with pdf files than xsane

2007-12-01 Thread Oliver Rauch
Did you enable "save PDF zlib compressed" in preferences/setup/file type ? Best regards Oliver Am Freitag, den 30.11.2007, 23:05 +0100 schrieb Julien Michielsen: > The filesize of as pdf saved scans is enourmous: one page scans often > take more than 14 Mb of filespace. However, when reading a co

[sane-devel] ghostscript so much better with pdf files than xsane

2007-11-30 Thread Julien BLACHE
Julien Michielsen wrote: Hi, > The filesize of as pdf saved scans is enourmous: one page scans often > take more than 14 Mb of filespace. However, when reading a couple of 14 MB ? Come on, scan at a lower resolution. Really. > Especially when sending pdf's bij mail it is usefull to have small

[sane-devel] ghostscript so much better with pdf files than xsane

2007-11-30 Thread Julien Michielsen
The filesize of as pdf saved scans is enourmous: one page scans often take more than 14 Mb of filespace. However, when reading a couple of them with ghostscript, in order to make a multipage pdf-file of it, the result shrinks to less than 15% of the original file: -rw-r--r-- 1 julien users 1817720

[sane-devel] ghostscript so much better with pdf files than xsane

2007-11-30 Thread jazz_john...@verizon.net
> The filesize of as pdf saved scans is enourmous: one page scans often > take more than 14 Mb of filespace. I routinely routinely use Xsane to scan documents directly to pnm (Portable aNy Map) format, which I then convert to muli-page pdf files using netpbm tools. If the ink on a document is