On Sunday 19 September 2004 15:11, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> >I'm in the process of scanning a lot of old B/W negatives. Until
> >now, I could just open GIMP, click File --> Acquire --> Device
> >dialog and then xsane would open and work just fine.
> >
> >But after a file system corruption, I had to reinstall 10.0
> >official. That in itself went smoothly, took about 20 minutes.
> >
> >Now, when doing the above mentioned procedure, the GIMP opens
> >xscanimage insted of xsane. That's of no use when scanning
> >negatives so I'd like it to open xsane instead.
> >
> >I have tried to create a symbolic link to xsane in GIMPs
> > plug-ins directory, but to no avail. Even renamed the link to
> > xscanimage, but it still opens.
> >
> >Ideas anyone ?
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Haven't got time to look right now, but I'm fairly certain in
> your home directory under, .gimp folder there is a plug-ins file
> where you can set the links.
>
>
> John
>
>
> LATER,
>
> First make sure you have xsane-pluggins installed,
> you should have the main binary installed in /usr/bin/xsane-gimp
> if not install the gimp/sane plug-ins
>
> then if the min plug-ins install hasn't already done so,
>
> link the xsane binary directly into ~/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins .
> Then remove ~/.gimp-1.2/pluginrc and restart gimp.
>
> Not done this for a very long time so be careful.
> I would just move ~/.gimp-1.2/pluginrc in case you need to put it
> back.
>
> John
Once again you saved my blood pressure from winding up into the
paint cards, John. Of course the matter was that I didn't install
xsane-gimp when I did the re-install. After doing just that
everything runs the way I want. The reason I prefer to start xsane
from the gimp is that I can add text to the photos right away, skew
and enhance them. Many of those old negatives are far from perfect,
but the gimp is really an amazing tool.
Thanks, John.
Kaj Haulrich.
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