From c6bf6baf9db1314fd9a4690e64a6546c165f08bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: josch Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:14:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add speed benefit to README --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 18907ce..c5f520a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ image is given, losslessly embed JPEG and JPEG2000 files into a PDF container without adding more overhead than the PDF structure itself and will save all other graphics formats using lossless zip-compression. +Another nifty advantage: Since no re-encoding is done in case of JPEG images, +the conversion is many (ten to hundred) times faster with img2pdf compared to +imagemagick. While a run of above convert command with a 2.8MB JPEG takes 27 +seconds (on average) on my machine, conversion using img2pdf takes just a +fraction of a second. + bugs ----