On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:58, John Richard Smith wrote:To tell the truth I have never used kooka before, I have managed to scan an image with kooka, but at the moment I don't know where it puts the image file. I choose 600dpi, colour, and bmp, and the preview seemed ok , I was able to select the chosen area, and final scan to a file. Kooka appears to have a print tab and a scaling window. I guess these might be used to produce a printout. Sorry , but my knowledge of kooka is slight.
I got all the right sane packages installed. I got both Gnome and KDE installed and i'm runing Gnome right know. My problem is this: when i used to scan an image on a Windows machine I had real crappy scanning software (if you installed in english, you got a spanish version...) but when i scanned an image and printed it, it came out with exactly the same dimensions. Now when I scan at a resolution of 600 i get a huge image, so it seems Kooka as well as Xsane handle this matter differently.
I use Kover to scale the images in such a way it fits a jewel case. Am i missing a point here?
Marco
If you have all the sane packages installed you want to create a start menu- multimedia- graphics - Xsane entry if there isn't one already, which I think there may well be. If so ,and your likely to be using the scanner frequently, drag the start menu Icon to desktop and thereby create a desktop Icon. Click on Xsane and run the sane scanner programme.
Mine is straight forward, choose the 600 dpi setting, colour, A4 paper size(if you are European) do a preliminary scan, select the chosen area to be final scanned and save .pnm image file to choice of directory. That should give you a good quality image file to print off in something like gimp. If your not getting a good quality image file I would suspect your scanner is not set up right in sane backends.
John
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