Re: [Gimp-user] Image Compression

["Dr. Jason L. Amerson" <drjason alphagenius org>]

Thank you for the information.

On December 2, 2020 17:47:44 Øyvind Kolås <pippin gimp org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 4:59 PM Jason Amerson via gimp-user-list
> <gimp-user-list gnome org> wrote:
> > I scanned in a magazine as JPEGs, 300 dpi and high compression, but
> > still each file is over a megabyte. When I create a PDF using these
> > files, it is over 250 MB. I was wondering if you could tell me how to
> > compress these files in GIMP so that the resulting PDF will be of
> > normal size.
>
> Your problem might be your PDF creation tool (unstated), rather than
> your input images. If the images are black and white (or grayscale)
> using TIFFs instead of JPEG might help - but PDF is also capable of
> embedding JPG images directly inside which your workflow has not done
> (unless you have roughly 250 pages...).
>
> /pippin
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