Add optional bilevel shrinking of the archived PDF
Scanned scores are black ink on white paper stored as 8-bit greyscale or RGB, which costs several times what the same page costs as a bilevel image. Across an 11-song corpus this is 27.6 MB to 7.7 MB; Engel's bundle goes from 5997 KB to 2092 KB with byte-identical slices, since only the archived copy changes. Three approaches were measured and discarded first, which is worth recording because two of them are the obvious ones. Converting RGB to greyscale and re-encoding makes these files 20-86% LARGER: the source JPEGs are already near 0.7 bits per pixel, so re-encoding adds generation loss and spends more bits than the original did, and dropping chroma recovers nothing because JPEG already subsamples it. Lossless structural optimisation gains 0.1%, because images are 99% of every file and there are no duplicates. Downsampling works but 300 DPI is print resolution, and the PDF exists to be printed. Two failure modes were found by looking at output rather than at byte counts, and both are now refused: - A scan at ~115 DPI came back with broken staff lines. Guarded on resolution as the image is *placed on the page*, so a tiled scan with 126 small images still qualifies where a pixel count would reject it. - Cover artwork was flattened to grey. Guarded on chroma: artwork measures 44% off-grey against 3% for sensor tint on a greyscale scan. The first threshold of 2% was a false positive that cost 685 KB on one song for nothing; 10% sits in the gap with room either side. Exposed as a button rather than a checkbox. It reports what it skipped and why, and shows a before/after crop, because the failure it can produce is obvious at a glance and invisible in a size figure. Off by default: this is lossy on the copy kept for printing.
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@@ -222,6 +222,10 @@ class Project:
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key: str = "c"
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time: str = "4/4"
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clefs: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
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# Shrink the archival PDF carried in the bundle by converting its scanned
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# pages to bilevel. Off by default: it is lossy on the copy kept for
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# printing, and on some scans it breaks staff lines.
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optimise_pdf: bool = False
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path: Path | None = None
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# Set once the song has been exported. A project is spent at that point:
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# opening the PDF again starts a fresh session from detection rather than
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@@ -308,6 +312,7 @@ class Project:
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"key": self.key,
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"time": self.time,
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"clefs": self.clefs,
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"optimise_pdf": self.optimise_pdf,
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"pages": [
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{
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"skew": page.skew,
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@@ -415,6 +420,7 @@ class Project:
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key=data.get("key", "c"),
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time=data.get("time", "4/4"),
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clefs=data.get("clefs", []),
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optimise_pdf=data.get("optimise_pdf", False),
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)
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def source_changed(self) -> bool:
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