Hi, On 2021-04-08 5:53 p.m., Paul Graff wrote: > Hi, the adf feature seems to work perfectly with the brother > MFC-J485DW. I have tested this with 3 pages with print only on one side. > > The issue's I am having arise with the Viewer output displayed after > the document scanning is complete. I have listed them as follows. > > 1. The scan output is [very large/huge] at 100%. Each time open the > viewer I then zoom out to either 13% or 18%. Then I can preview the > scanned document in the viewer window without having to use the > scrollbar in the viewer window (so that I can get a complete view) > more instantaneously. > There are some changes in xsane that try to address this. It is certainly something that can be improved. There is a release coming at some point, probably not very soon though. > > 2. The viewer window is maximized each time I restart xsane and > perform a scan operation regardless of what I have adjusted the viewer > window to during the previous xsane instance. So then I must > unmaximize the viewer window then use the mouse cursor to adjust the > viewer window size and placement. So when using the adf feature of > xsane for say 3 documents it's maybe a bit tedious to unmaximize each > of the documents viewer windows then adjust it's window size and > placement on the desktop for each scanned document. > I think that the current behaviour for the Viewer window is to size it big enough to accommodate the image regardless of the prior setting. The default Zoom is 100% so if the window is not big enough fully maximized, then only a portion of the image will be seen. This is a pain in the *ss to be sure and something that I will visit.
> *The question is **the following*: Are there settings that I can/could > be adjusting within xsane to retain a specific zoom level and window > and/or window placement setting and size globally that will be > retained regardless of reboots of the pc and instances of xsane? > > Obviously in the big scheme of things the xsane application is > performing excellent at this point with the brother MFC-J485DW. > > I thank you for your suggestions and thoughts on this matter. > Cheers, Ralph
