Sharper screenshots, smaller scans

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Since version 11.33.0, PDF24 embeds screenshots (from the clipboard and with "Screenshot to PDF") as well as PNG, BMP and TIFF files losslessly, as long as this is not much larger than JPEG. Text in screenshots stays sharp, without the typical JPEG noise, and the files are usually even smaller. Photos stay JPEG.

This applies in the Creator, the DocTool and the Scanner. More improvements:

  • Black-and-white and grayscale scans keep their color depth. An A4 page in black and white needs about 65 instead of 2500 KB.
  • Transparent PNG images keep their transparency instead of a black background.
  • Phone photos are shown correctly rotated without being encoded again.
The same screenshot converted to PDF with the DocTool, detail enlarged four times: top 11.32 (JPEG, 682 KB), bottom 11.33 (lossless, 233 KB)
The same screenshot, converted to PDF once with version 11.32 and once with 11.33 (detail, enlarged four times).