Michael Nagel <ubuntu at nailor.devzero.de> writes: > Hello Olaf,
Hi Michael, > On 13.06.2012 13:51, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Much to my chagrin, I found out that scanimage and xsane do NOT cope >> properly with such padded image formats. Much to my surprise, however, >> simple-scan does (but has a bunch of problems of in own in terms of >> being a SANE frontend). I haven't checked any further. > I am working on making simple-scan a good program, also from the > technical point of view. Could you elaborate the aforementioned > problems so we can try to solve them? Let me first say that I realize that simple-scan is first and foremost meant to be simple. I also know that many people will only be utterly confused by presenting them *all* the bell and whistles that a backend may provide. However, the preferences and functions that simple-scan exposes fall way short of what backend implementers did not indicate as being advanced and blithely ignores the settable values for the few it does expose. Furthermore, a feeder is assumed where there may be none. I just tried scanning "All Pages From Feeder" on a device that doesn't have one ... looks like it'll scan until my disk is full. For the same device, scanning "Front and Back" doesn't seem to make sense (unless it is also used for something when dashing the acquiring/selected images to its output destination). I just noticed that that results in ** (simple-scan:3172): WARNING **: scanner.vala:887: Unable to set duplex ADF source, please file a bug on my terminal but as your main target audience will have started the application from the menu, they'll never get to see it (the fraction of people that knows that there is such a thing as ~/.xsession-errors and actually looks there is infinitesimally small). I guess what I'm basically trying to say is that it doesn't use the SANE backend options the way they were meant to be (which isn't easy when you want to make a simple, intuitive and esthetically pleasing frontend). Despite all my "compliants", I must say that I kind of like the idea of organising the images in a document and how you can remove those images you don't like. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION FSF Associate Member #1962 Help support software freedom http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962