David Collins - 2025-09-11

I am scanning a bunch of documents and want to scan the covers in 256 colors but the rest of the pages in binary(Text) - so different resolutions in the same final PDF. I have a problem in that the pages I scan in 256 come up much bigger (dimensionally) in the final PDF than ones I scan in binary. If I scan a page in 16770K colors the page sizes are the same as for binary but doing it all in 16770K resolution will make the file too large for my use. I have the same issue if I scan pages in 8 colors too - they come out much bigger than the pages scanned in binary or 16770K. They look OK in the NAPS2 window, it's only after I export them to PDF and open the PDF that I see the issue.

I've tried checking the stretch and crop boxes in Advance Profile but it doesn't help.

My scanner only has a driver for Windows 7 32 bit so I'm running Win 7 in a VM in Oracle Virtual Box on Windows 10. Scanner is a Ricoh IS760D and I'm using the Ricoh driver and TWAIN.

I dont have this issue on NAPS2 v5.8.2 and can probably go back to that if there isnt a simple solution.

Any suggestions?

 

Last edit: David Collins 2025-09-11