Hi-- thanks for your support of my ancient bug. Now that there are two of us who want this, maybe we can petition for it as a wishlist item, at least.
I completely understand why they closed it -- what you and I are doing with imagemagick is to use a "worse" or "lossier" compression scheme to compress the file to be smaller than xsane can possibly make using any of its options. The person closing the bug saw that it produced artifacts in the resulting image, which is to be expected. Since I almost exclusively scan black and white documents, I have been satisfied with my technique for scanning the document as black and white 300dpi multi-page .ps files, then using ps2pdf to convert the single multi-page file to pdf. This produces an acceptably small pdf with extremely acceptable quality for my particular circumstance. IF, however, you are scanning color documents, you probably want much more control over the settings. As the person who closed the bug implied, compression artifacts might be unacceptable for some circumstances. Also if your documents use solid color, such as blue or red ink on black and white forms, scanning to a format with a limited palette BEFORE compressing would create a small file and eliminate the compression artifacts. SO it's not necessarily a simple issue. I was hoping for some more options, maybe a way for xsane to call the imagemagick convert command during the save process so it would be possible to add some additional tweaking, while still preserving the ease of use xsane offers. It would be REALLY nice to configure and save more options for scanning, such as compression algorithm and level, pdf display name, and maybe the PDF page size size and resolution, if it needs separate control. NOTE: xsane can save multi-page .ps files, and in Gnome, and you can add ps2pdf as a right-click command in Nautilus (the GNOME file viewer) by right click --> Open With --> Custom command... . SO I have not missed this requested feature, EXCEPT when I am dealing with a file that doesn't work with the defaults in ps2pdf. (For example, a legal or Tabloid size document would get truncated by ps2pdf unless I pass some more arguments. For those situations I usually just scan each image to a file, open and place the images in an OpenOffice document, and save the pdf from there.) -- xsane PDF file sizes could be optimized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75384 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
