Hi Andrea, Andrea Croci writes:
> [...] I have always wondered why the Windows programs make a 180 kB > pdf of the same page for which xsane made a 7MB file (don't know if it > has changed in the last few years since I'm scanning from command > line). That's probably because those Windows programs embed the images as JPEGs and xsane embeds PNMs. Needless to say, JPEGs suck for text documents. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
