if you scan with a higher dpi, there is more data to display. it may be possible for a front-end to be smart enough to scale the image to fit on your screen no matter the dpi, but this really has nothing to do with sane. i know for instance, that gqview has options to do just this...
allan On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 jouth...@dds.nl wrote: > > Goodday, > > I noticed that scanning at resolutions of, say, 200 dpi and more results in > digital images of ever bigger size, to a point that it is practically > impossible > to read them on screen. > > (And unfortunately, more modern scanners don't scan at resolutions below 200 > dpi; at least mine - a hp3770 - doesn't). > > I'm sorry to say this, but I think this is a rather dumb situation. At work I > have to use Windows (sadly enough), and there changing the resolution of scans > doesn't influence the size of the digital image: A4 stays A4 under all > circumstances. > > I wonder if there couldn't be any kind of automatic rescaling be built into > the > sane-code? I can't imagine anybody being happy with things as they are now, > with > respect to this. > > Greetings > Jan Outhuis > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
