diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 19be25a3..35a41ec0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2023-12-20  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
+
+	* Bug fix: with --compress-streams=n, don't compress object or
+	XRef streams.
+
 2023-12-16  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
 	* Add new C++ functions "qpdf_c_get_qpdf" and "qpdf_c_wrap" to
diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
index 664ea5ff..3085e6c0 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFWriter.cc
@@ -1658,8 +1658,7 @@ QPDFWriter::writeObjectStream(QPDFObjectHandle object)
 
             // Set up a stream to write the stream data into a buffer.
             Pipeline* next = pushPipeline(new Pl_Buffer("object stream"));
-            if ((m->compress_streams || (m->stream_decode_level == qpdf_dl_none)) &&
-                (!m->qdf_mode)) {
+            if (m->compress_streams && !m->qdf_mode) {
                 compressed = true;
                 next =
                     pushPipeline(new Pl_Flate("compress object stream", next, Pl_Flate::a_deflate));
@@ -2417,7 +2416,7 @@ QPDFWriter::writeXRefStream(
 
     Pipeline* p = pushPipeline(new Pl_Buffer("xref stream"));
     bool compressed = false;
-    if ((m->compress_streams || (m->stream_decode_level == qpdf_dl_none)) && (!m->qdf_mode)) {
+    if (m->compress_streams && !m->qdf_mode) {
         compressed = true;
         if (!skip_compression) {
             // Write the stream dictionary for compression but don't actually compress.  This helps
diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/good17-not-recompressed.pdf b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/good17-not-recompressed.pdf
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diff --git a/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/newline-before-endstream-nl-objstm.pdf b/qpdf/qtest/qpdf/newline-before-endstream-nl-objstm.pdf
index f412feda..13752cba 100644
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