Comment 17 for bug 75384

was this ever resolved?

I'm evaluating scanning programs for linux and xsane comes highly recommended, but a typical color scan of a test document I'm using generated a huge 17440k pdf vs. a 824k from simple-scan and visually I am not seeing any difference. The grayscale scan was 5596k and seems to suffer from some kind of aliasing issue around letters that are on a diagonal, which doesn't happen with simple-scan and results in a much smaller (b&w though) 280k document, albeit with its own issues since it is b&w vs gray. All scans were done at 300dpi.

I've been trying to figure out why xsane generates such massive pdfs and ended up here, is the bug still relevant? Seems very old.