Comment 2 for bug 75384

Hi! :-)

I am returning to this because I think the bug exists indeed, my secretary has been complaining about this, making me lose time checking why she has hit the wall, or if there is a fix it is not obvious to me...
scanned a color document, 150dpi, full color, xsane 0.994, Jaunty 32 and 64-bit (tried on the 2 versions).

jpg 518k
pdf 4.9M (!)
jpg converted to pdf with gm convert (graphics Magick, default options) 414k.

Note that convert (image magick) with default optios produces a 6.5MB file, it is even worse.

The difference is pdf directly created by xsane is about 10 times larger than the one converted with gm, and it looks the same, even at closer look. If this is an invalid bug, I am puzzled...ok, maybe not a bug, but a nagging annoyance, needing intermediate passes to perform properly in color, and invalidating multi-page color pdf scans, everything must be scanned to jpg and then batcht-converted.

If you need that, the command

#gm convert *.jpg -adjoin output.pdf

is quite clean and efficient, just scan your pdfs as 001.jpg, 002.jpg...nnn.jpg

Please advise

Greetings from sunny Portugal