Bug#563442: ability to work with compressed files

2010-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe [2010.01.05.1122 +1300]: > OK. I guess that only leaves the question on how to decide what sort > of compression to use. Unless you have any better ideas, I'll use > LZW-compressed TIFFs, as they are non-lossy. An alternative would be PNG. Hm, are there any data com

Bug#563442: ability to work with compressed files

2010-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:44:55AM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > And apparently disables stuff like calling unpaper, which needs the > PNM files. gscan2pdf converts automatically back to PNM for unpaper. It works here - I've just tried it. > And maybe a command just to remove the unreferenced f

Bug#563442: ability to work with compressed files

2010-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe [2010.01.04.2311 +1300]: > You are quite correct, the "Compress Temporary Files" menu item > converts all images that are not already PNG or JPG to > LZW-compressed TIFF -- AND deletes all those that are no longer > required -- thereby making undo/redo impossible. A

Bug#563442: ability to work with compressed files

2010-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Serves me right for writing about code without checking first. You are quite correct, the "Compress Temporary Files" menu item converts all images that are not already PNG or JPG to LZW-compressed TIFF -- AND deletes all those that are no longer required -- thereby making undo/redo impossible. Ho

Bug#563442: ability to work with compressed files

2010-01-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe [2010.01.04.0245 +1300]: > Hmm. The compress temporary files option is perhaps badly named - > "Clean up temporary files" may be better, as what happens is that > gscan2pdf checks the temporary files in its directory against those it > actually needs, and deletes tho

Bug#563442: ability to work with compressed files

2010-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:44:20PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > I appreciate the option to compress temporary files, but it would be > nice if I could instruct gscan2pdf to always work with temporary > files, i.e. not to create uncompressed files in the first place. Hmm. The compress temporary

Bug#563442: ability to work with compressed files

2010-01-02 Thread martin f krafft
Package: gscan2pdf Version: 0.9.29-1 Severity: wishlist I appreciate the option to compress temporary files, but it would be nice if I could instruct gscan2pdf to always work with temporary files, i.e. not to create uncompressed files in the first place. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Rel