On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:51:50 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan
<horkana at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> I have to ask why you would want to do this though, PDF seems like a
> fairly inefficient way to store a collection of JPEGs?
No, it's actually quite efficient. I just did a test and using
imagemagick's convert command to turn 11 scanned jpegs (total size
712kb) into a single pdf document gave a final size of 684kb.
Generally the two sizes will be about the same.
The advantages of the pdf (to my mind) are that it keeps the files in
sequence, turns a bunch of jpegs into a single download, and it makes
printing very easy. I originally used individual jpegs when i was
distributing scans of lecture overheads, but printing was tricky.
With a pdf, printing is a doddle.
Using the cli to sane, then imagemagick to threshold and filter the
images, and then again to generate the pdf document (all in a script)
made the generation process very efficient.
Regards,
Michael
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