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diff --git a/xsane.FAQ b/xsane.FAQ new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b568f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/xsane.FAQ @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ + +================================================================================ +Q: Have you considered adding a scan to PDF multipage functionality to XSane? +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- +A: +I already made up my mind about scanning to a pdf file. +The pdf format is a bad format for scanning images. +When you scan a text document to a pdf file then there are +two large differences to usual pdf documents: + +- the size of the scanned documents is about 10-50 times larger than +the size of a comparable text document +- you can not search such a document + +So scanning text and saving it as image to pdf is no good idea. + +And for scanning photos: +The PDF format is a document format, more comparable +to the Microsoft Word format than to jpeg, png or Tiff. +When you scanned 100 pictures to a pdf document, how +will you extract one of the pictures? + +I plan to include multipage tiff and postscript files. +But not in the near future - I do not have the time for it +in the moment. +================================================================================ |