Bug 464503

Summary:	Have an option to select image compression
Product:	[Applications] Skanpage	Reporter:	makosol
Component:	general	Assignee:	Alexander Stippich <a.stippich>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	chris-hartmann, m.lincetto, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description makosol 2023-01-19 13:44:06 UTC

SUMMARY

PDF produced by Skanpage are quiete heavy, we should have a parameter to select image compression.

For example, you can see what is proposed by this free software : https://www.naps2.com/

Comment 1 Alexander Stippich 2023-11-05 10:54:53 UTC

*** Bug 474796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Alexander Stippich 2023-11-05 11:25:00 UTC

Unfortunately, Qt does currently not offer support for selecting the image compression when writing to PDFs. So it is not easy to implement as far as I know.

Comment 3 Massimiliano L 2024-07-29 19:29:52 UTC

(In reply to Alexander Stippich from comment #2)
> Unfortunately, Qt does currently not offer support for selecting the image
> compression when writing to PDFs. So it is not easy to implement as far as I
> know.

Would it be possible to call some ghostscript command after writing the PDF to file, immediately overwriting it?