Welcome to PStill

This is only a short notice on how to use PStill, see also the FAQ

http://www.wizards.de/~frank/pstill_qa.html

By default PStill does only the most plain conversion, no compression etc.
You need to instruct it by using options.

This option is recommended for any conversion:

pstill -M default -o output.pdf input

It tells PStill to use (lossless) compression, take over transfer functions, 
use a Level 2 language set and get the page size from the source.

Alternatively, if you prefer to fine tune the options 
(-M default is equivalent to the following option list):

-2 -c -c -c -c -i -t g -w 2000 -h 2000

If you want to work on larger pages than US letter (and your job does not
define a page size), preset the page size:

-F a4

or use the apropriate -w # and -h # (# in pts) options to setup the page area.

instead of using 

-g -w 2000 -h 2000

which lets PStill figure out the page sizes.

(Remember option -g (get page size from input) can only shrink the inital
page size, hence the -w / -h to set a large enough default page area!)

To get JPEG compression in the output use option -J ## (where # is the quality
1 - 100) otherwise JPEGs in the input set are expanded to lossless (large
output data)!

See also the output of 'pstill -H' for available options

