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 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 > >
