On 2025-09-21, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: >> I used to use xsane almost exclusively for scanning to PDF, but it >> only does single pages. > > It doesn't. In the window where you can click to "Scan", at the > top-right under the menu you have a button that says "Save". > If you click on it, you'll see several choices, one of them called > "multipage". You can select it also just by hitting `C-m`.
That did seem odd to me that xsane only could do single pages. I said to myself: il doit y avoir un truc. > Then you can scan the pages you need, one by one, and at the end, create > the single PDF containing all those scans. Right. With simple-scan, you just keep on scanning pages until you're done. > [ In the past, this PDF was not very good (much too large), so I often > ended up passing it through some kind of dummy "pdf to pdf" conversion > that ended up (re)generating an equivalent PDF with a much more > palatable size. That was many years ago, so maybe that's been fixed > in the mean time. ] I just did a four-pager with simple-scan. 2.6m, which is palatable. I remember having muchos problemos trying to significantly reduce the size of a pdf once. > > Stefan > >
