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 Nov 27 23:31 07brbtot.pdf -rw------- 1 julien users 14808071 Nov 27 17:48 07brb1.pdf -rw------- 1 julien users 16691483 Nov 27 17:50 07brb2.pdf -rw------- 1 julien users 13640821 Nov 27 23:30 07brb3.pdf
The first line (of 07brbtot.pdf) is the combination of the three pages 07brb1-3. The command to create the combined file: gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=07brbtot.pdf 07brb1.pdf 07brb2.pdf 07brb3.pdf Especially when sending pdf's bij mail it is usefull to have small scan- files. Couldn't xsane incorporate a call to gs to reduce it's output? Thanks -- Julien Michielsen julien_at_michkloo.xs4all.nl
