On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 02:05, 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.
Couple more points: 1) More thoughts on Kover, after re-reading the scantips web-site, in particular the following paragraph: "To print images at the actual original size on the paper, the value for resolution entered into the scanner's TWAIN driver is both the scanning resolution and the printing resolution (assuming 100% Scale Factor). The same resolution (same dots per inch) is what makes the image print at actual real size. Scan and print, that's about all there is to it, unless your printing software interferes with its own notions about how it should be done. TIF and JPG image files store this resolution number in the file for later use (GIF files do not), and good applications will honor it. Some applications do not. " Seems it's Kover's problem then, perhaps using screen resolution instead of the scan/print resolution. Perhaps a bug-report is in order? Then again, that would assume that all images used on the cover were originally cover-sized. If you're creating your own cover using, or using an old LP cover or something, then you wouldn't want that behaviour. Hmmmm, should be an option, I guess. Personally, I think Kover should have the ability to directly scan the cover image using the KDE scanning library as a plugin, that way it can work out for itself what to do. I also think that Kover itself should be integrated into K3B as a one-stop-shop. n e-mail to the author is in order, I think... 2) After my earlier rant, I decided to go looking for other scanning software to use, and re-discovered Quiteinsane. No RPM's are available, but it compiled quite happily on my machine and I'm now playing with it to see if it works any better than XSane or Kooka. It looks to be XSane with a KDE interface. Still not idiot-proof, but does what you tell it to, unlike XSane. The only problem is in the configure step, which can give some misleading error messages. First make sure you have the following packages installed (in addition to all the usual developer packages you need for compiling from source): libsane1 libsane1-devel sane-backends libjpeg62 libjpeg62-devel libieee1284 libieee1284-devel libgphoto2 libgphoto2-devel libusb0.1_4 libusb0.1_4-devel Next you need to run configure with the following options: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt3 --enable-mt --enable-kde-app Finally do the usual make/make install to get it running. I'll suggest to Texstar that he make a package, seeing as that's something I don't (yet) know how to do :-) John.
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