Re: [sane-devel] Colour problem with Canon Maxify MB5150

2021-08-10 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Thierry, On Tuesday, 2021-08-10 14:28:29 +0200, you wrote: > ... > I just saw that things have changed. > The current version of scangearmp2 is 4.20 > So I repackaged it to reflect this, you can use scangearmp2 provided by > canon: >

Re: [sane-devel] Colour problem with Canon Maxify MB5150

2021-08-09 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Thierry, On Monday, 2021-08-02 13:09:34 +0200, you wrote: > ... > The current version of scangearmp2 is 4.10 ( > https://canoncanadafr.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1034243/~/scangear-mp-v.-4.10-for-linux-%28debian-packagearchive%29). > You can install libmfo2-canon

Re: [sane-devel] Colour problem with Canon Maxify MB5150

2021-08-02 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Ralph and Others, On Wednesday, 2021-06-30 12:07:49 +0200, I myself wrote: > Ralph, > > On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 18:21:57 -0700, you wrote: > > > ... > > On 2021-05-19 8:46 a.m., Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > > ... > > > - The PNG file from the fla

Re: [sane-devel] Colour problem with Canon Maxify MB5150

2021-06-30 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Ralph, On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 18:21:57 -0700, you wrote: > ... > On 2021-05-19 8:46 a.m., Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > ... > > - The PNG file from the flatbed clearly showed the original paper hav- > > ing been rather thin, since some colours from the reverse sid

Re: [sane-devel] Colour problem with Canon Maxify MB5150

2021-05-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Ralph, On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 18:21:57 -0700, you wrote: > ... > Some of the pixma devices seems to have a completely different engine > for generating scans from the ADF compared to the flatbed. > For ADF, they return JPEG data to SANE instead of the normal raster data > that we get from

Re: [sane-devel] Colour problem with Canon Maxify MB5150

2021-05-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Andrea, On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 23:16:43 +0200, you wrote: > ... > > I'm not replying as an expert here, only to ask a question: Does you > Maxify scan both sides in one shot from ADF or does it turn the page to > scan the other side? Yes, it does it in one shot, if Duplex is activated.

[sane-devel] Colour problem with Canon Maxify MB5150

2021-05-19 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, since our good ol' Canon Pixma MX885 has eventually reached its End Of Life, we've bought a Canon Maxify MB5150. And because http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html listed this scanner as using the same "pixma" backend as the MX885, I just had to update the IP address in

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-15 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Friday, 2020-02-14 17:32:39 +0100, I myself wrote: > ... > So I bit the bullet and created just another account in order to submit > an issue. Again in vain: "File is too big (27.33MiB). Max filesize: > 10MiB". Ok. So be it. I meanwhile remembered one of my scripts which

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-15 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Saturday, 2020-02-15 11:13:32 +0900, you wrote: > ... > > What's next? Reduce the value of "SANE_DEBUG_BJNP"? But I can't guar- > > antee I can reproduce this particular behaviour. > > That's probably the best solution even though that would change the > timing of events leading to

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-14 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Allan, On Friday, 2020-02-14 11:36:43 -0500, you wrote: > Did you compress the file? Yes, of course. After all the "*.bz2" files were already there :-) Sincerely, Rainer

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-14 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Friday, 2020-02-14 14:28:16 +0100, I myself wrote: > ... > I've compressed the debug output from tests 1 and 3, but the files are > still huge: > >$ ls -l *.bz2 >-rw--- 1 rainer rainer 28659462 2020-02-14 13:35 paperjam.log.bz2 >-rw--- 1 rainer rainer 56919612

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-14 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, I promised to run tests using the current version of "sane-backends" as well as my Canon Pixma scanner. I used a three sheets, six pages color original and scanned with "--source 'ADF Duplex'": Test 1: Run with "export SANE_DEBUG_BJNP=127". After scanning the 4-th page

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-14 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Wednesday, 2020-02-12 20:17:17 +0900, you wrote: > ... > You could copy your libsane-$BACKEND.* to wherever libsane.* gets > installed, i.e. $libdir in ./configure terms. Ok, since I'm currently installing into my home directory, I get $ ls -lp lib/ total 336 -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-11 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Tuesday, 2020-02-11 17:50:54 +0900, you wrote: > ... > > # Since I'm only specifying a single backend anyway, why not include it > > # right into the binary rather than load it at start-up? > > Why not make that backend your libsane instance? And how to do that? Or is that what

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-08 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Saturday, 2020-02-08 12:52:49 +0900, you wrote: [ "> >" refers to Bruce Schultz' mail ] > ... > > That fails now for me with the same error you error you had. > > For me too (on our CI's debian-10-full setup with 336cbdfd as well as > 1.0.29) but I also get a pile of multiple

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-08 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Saturday, 2020-02-08 12:12:00 +0900, you wrote: > ... > > I've appended file "config.status" below. However, file "config.log" is > > about 300+ kB in size and thus would be quarantained again. Is it ok to > > mail it only to you privately? > > You already did ;-) > By sending mail

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-08 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, this is my second try to answer your mail because the first was held due to being more than 100 kB in size, and I then cancelled it. On Wednesday, 2020-02-05 18:47:14 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > ... > So, if HAVE_LIBJPEG is not defined (check include/sane/config.h), that > compiled

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-07 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Bruce, On Thursday, 2020-02-06 06:47:53 +1000, you wrote: > ... > Also, what options are you passing in to ./configure ? Currently the not $PREFIX related options I'm using are $ ./configure --disable-avahi --disable-dynamic --disable-nls \ --enable-ipv6

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-02-04 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Friday, 2020-01-31 18:08:28 +0900, you wrote: > ... > This shouldn't be anything to worry about but I've submitted an issue > for it. You can find it at: > > https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues/235 > > If you could add distribution/version info as well as attach your >

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2020-01-30 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, it's been a while, and I was busy solving more pressing problems. Now I'm back again to tackle this scanning issue. On Sunday, 2019-12-15 16:41:01 +0900, you wrote: > ... > > I know about the existence of environment variable "SANE_DEBUG_BJNP" but > > have no idea what value to set it

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2019-12-19 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Bruce and All, On Tuesday, 2019-12-17 07:07:14 +1000, Bruce Schultz wrote: > ... > You could try rebuilding the backends with the following command: > > EGIT_OVERRIDE_COMMIT_SANE_PROJECT_BACKENDS=6b7052c4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="**" > emerge -av1 =media-gfx/sane-backends- > > That will install

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2019-12-14 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Bruce and All, On Thursday, 2019-12-12 23:44:38 +1000, Bruce Schultz wrote: > ... > Rainer can you try now with the sane-backends-.ebuild, which will > install the current git version of the backends. I'm hopeful that having > something at least as recent as the known working version may

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2019-12-09 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Bruce, On Thursday, 2019-12-05 06:38:52 +1000, you wrote: > ... > I have put together a gentoo overlay for sane-backends with version > 1.0.28. Can you test this? > > https://github.com/brulzki/sane-overlay I followed the installation instructions in your "README.md" file, first created file

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2019-12-04 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Wednesday, 2019-12-04 21:29:05 +0900, you wrote: > ... > In that case, I suggest you upgrade to at least 1.0.28 and possibly even > to something later on our master branch. Gentoo currently does not provide a newer version than 1.0.27-r3. And if the information I found at

Re: [sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2019-12-03 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Ralph, On Tuesday, 2019-12-03 07:39:14 -0800, you wrote: > ... > You don't say if you did adf scanning successfully on Ubuntu although I > assume that is the case. > Could you confirm that? Yes, I can :-) The "scanimage" binary I used under Ubuntu worked with all the options regarding scan

[sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

2019-12-03 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, since quite some time I have been successfully using "scanimage" on my laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 to scan from a Canon Pixma MX 885 scanner connected via WiFi. Under Ubuntu 16.04 the "sane" package itself was version 1.0.14-11, but packages "libsane", "libsane-common", and

Re: [sane-devel] PNG support for "scanimage"?

2019-06-02 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Rolf, On Saturday, 2019-06-01 18:20:17 +0200, you wrote: > ... > I just fixed the ppa build dependencies for trusty and xenial. Newer > Ubuntu versions are not affected. The ppa is building now. Works like a charm ... :-) Thank you, Rainer -- sane-devel mailing list:

[sane-devel] PNG support for "scanimage"?

2019-05-31 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, still using Ubuntu 16.04 I've installed "scanimage" from Rolf's PPA: $ scanimage --version scanimage (sane-backends) 1.0.27git; backend version 1.0.27 $ scanimage -d pixma:MX880_new-host --format png PNG support not compiled in $ What's the reason for not supporting PNG? Do I have

Re: [sane-devel] "Scanimage" or "Sane" timeouts

2019-04-07 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Louis, On Saturday, 2019-04-06 15:14:46 +0200, you wrote: > ... > I just started wondering if there is a command that is not accepted in > case of this specific scanner. I have never seen that before, but who > knows...Will need destailed traces to check that... > > @Rainer, to be sure can you

Re: [sane-devel] "Scanimage" or "Sane" timeouts

2019-04-07 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Olaf, On Saturday, 2019-04-06 21:13:07 +0900, you wrote: > ... > There is one thing that bothers me a bit though and that's the occurence > of *six* timeouts, at least in Rainer's case. This may have to do with my WiFi router: it knows about exactly seven devices, including the

Re: [sane-devel] Error messages when starting "scanimage"

2018-06-21 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Louis, sorry for the delay ... due to other obligations it took me a while to get back to this problem ... On Wednesday, 2018-06-06 23:12:24 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Before we jump into the timeout issue, let's first get the basics > sorted out: > - what does a simple "scanimage -L" report?

[sane-devel] Error messages when starting "scanimage"

2018-06-06 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, whenever I'm starting "scanimage" I get a bundle of error messages: $ SANE_CONFIG_DIR=$HOME/.config/sane scanimage --device pixma:MX880_192.168.2.199 -T [bjnp] udp_command: ERROR - no data received (timeout = 1000) [bjnp] bjnp_init_device_structure: Cannot read mac address, skipping

Re: [sane-devel] Scanner-based compression for Fujitsu FI-5900c on 1.0.27?

2018-05-15 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Wes, On Monday, 2018-05-14 16:08:24 -0700, you wrote: > ... > I am trying to get the system working on a new computer with Ubuntu 16.04. > We have modified the fujitsu.c file but we are getting an error message. I > don't have the exact message but it was to the effect that an option was > not

[sane-devel] Are "scanimage" options sequence dependent?

2018-05-14 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, having spent the better part of last week hunting down a bug in one of my scripts which utterly failed to OCR the files produced by "scanim- age", I finally found the cause to be the way "scanimage" interprets its options: $ scanimage --device pixma:MX880_192.168.2.199 --format