> >I have wine-20010305-1.mdk installed and loading a graphics prog which > >came with my scanner. Prog is ipplus.exe. So far it will load, & save a
Ugggh. Try xsane. Depending on your scanner, it's plugin and go (is with HP 4P SCSI and Epson perfection 1650). The program is becoming very nice and would quite probably exceed that ipplus thingy. > Vuescan is Linux-friendly. Not fully free, but its an extremely popular > package. Note: I haven't used it so I can't comment on it. I haven't used it myself, but seen someone use it and heard several people comment on it. It's a motif app, as such keyboard handling can be a pain to change, and copy/paste won't work easily (think of netscape 4.x). You need to go a long way down memory lane for that motif rubbish, however motif was/is reliable, and with today's hardware the motif-performance big-bummer isn't so big any more. As for application management, the developer changes vuescan every week, at the same time chaing features as well as bugs. Note changing bugs, not adding features and eliminating old bugs. There should be a big kick in the bum for that, but it doesn't seem to have helped any for the last 2 or so years. What that means is you need to stick with a version where everything you want to use actually works. It's binary only, shareware (the license code disables the crosshatch over the picture). vuescan has some features xsane and scanimage (the only contenders) don't, mainly support for scanners which are not or only badly supported under sane. Of course you make sure you buy a scanner which has good sane support. (All the free support for scanners under linux comes from sane.) Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.orcon.net.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
