Hi! I'm the original bug submitter and I'm really disappointed that you have set status to invalid. I argue that the new default value for the compression option is *not* a good balance between speed and quality. For me, the new default behavior is a clear *regression* compared to the previous versions.
What you say sounds kind of like "90% of users' content is so poor that they will not even notice quality reduction anyway". Please note however, that in some areas such an evident image *corruption* is not acceptable, take for example OCR. I argue that OCR is a very common application for scanners, so most users probably would *not* benefit from image quality loss. Having said all that, it *could* be a sensible default value if a user could easily switch the lossy compression off. As of now, there seems to be no system-wide setting, at least documented, that could switch the image corruption once and for all. It's even not obvious how to turn the image corruption off on program-by-program basis (please see man xsane and xsane html documentation -- there is no mention of "compression"). It took me considerable amount of time just to understand that this is not a bug but a [mis]feature. I guess many users just started to use higher resolution settings to compensate for quality reduction. Please consider reopening the bug! Andrey Paramonov -- Scanner output always JPEG compressed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192176 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
