I have a LIDE 25 and use XSANE, on Ubuntu 10.4 (32 bit). Xsane works flawlessly.
I suggest you completely uninstall xsane and then reinstall it. Otherwise, if you have a digital camera with a macro setting, you might try that. Good luck, Pat On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net>wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 07:06:16 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> dijo: > > >On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >> I have come to the conclusion that it is a bug. > >> > >> 1) I did the above exactly as stated and it still scans only the left > >> 3.99 inches of the page. > > > > When you look at the preview there is a dashed rectangle that > > defines the > >area to be included in the scan. Perhaps that rectangle excludes the > >right side of the page. > > > > When I scan a multipage document to produce a .pdf file I always > > adjust > >the rectangle to the same size for each page so the output is > >consistent. It's easy to overlook that rectanglep; I know that I did > >when I first started using xsane. > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > I have long known of the dotted rectangle, but adjusting it does not > help. That is, when I first click on Get Preview in the Preview window > it scans only the left 3.99 inches of the page. When I adjust the > rectangle the main window changes the page dimensions to match the new > rectangle. But when I then click on Scan it still scans only the left > 3.99 inches, regardless of the dimensions of the new rectangle. > > I forgot to say that this is Xsane 0.997 on Fedora 11 x86_64. The other > scanning programs I used (gscan2pdf and Skanlite [KDE]) are alternative > front ends for the same scanning utility. > > >From previous threads I know there is at least one other owner of a > Canoscan LiDE 30 on the PLUG list. It would be really helpful if > another user could report their results. At least then I can rule out > hardware issues. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- p.j.timl...@ieee.org www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 10990 NE Paren Springs Rd. Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug