On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 09:58, John Richard Smith wrote: > Marco Verheul wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that > >i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. > > > >What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution of 600. Then > >i loaded the picture in Kover where the images is resized again. I > >figured since i used a high resolution the image would look sharp, but > >it is kind of hazy. > > > >Can anybody give me some idea's how to do it right, or where i can find > >a good online tutorial on scanning. > > > >Marco > > > > > > > > > You don't give us much to go on really. What make of scanner sre you > using, are you in Mandrake with kde desktop, and do you have sane > installed. Indeed, why are you not scanning with sane as your image file > creation tool ? Well that is what I would use. Then when I have that > working and producing good quality image files, which in linux are .pnm > files I would then use an image display and manipulation programme like > gimp to finalise them and print off from there. you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages installed
if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. > To check up on what sane packages you have installed, do, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep sane > xsane-0.90-2mdk > sane-backends-1.0.11-5mdk > libsane1-1.0.11-5mdk > sane-frontends-1.0.10-1mdk > > The guts of sane is, sane-backends-1.0.11-5mdk , and libsane1-1.0.11-5mdk. > > xsane-0.90-2mdk and sane-frontends-1.0.10-1mdk are the graphical front > ends that most of us use to do the practical work. > > When your've got sane up and working well we can move on from there. > > Just to give you a flavour of what sane looks like I attatch an image > file of the desktop with sane up and running. > > John > > John > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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