Hi Theodore, thanks for the feedback, here are some comments:
On Friday, 4. October 2002 06:51, kilg...@khayyam.math.auburn.edu wrote: [SNIP] > 3. The zoom features work; I can scan any small rectangular area of the > image which I choose, but the brightness and contrast need to be adjusted > drastically afterwards, in order to get an image which looks like the > original. Scanning a small rectangular image gives a very dark image. > Scanning the entire original image, however, does not have this problem. > I used as a test for this the glossy paper which came with the scanner and > says on one side, "Choosing Canon was a smart move" and has a picture of a > girl wearing an earphone, at the bottom left. Try zooming in on the girl > and scanning an image which avoids all of the text. The colors are also a > little bit off; the background comes out somewhat blue instead of white. I'll check this. You might use gamma curves with factor 2.5 as the calibration does currently not work with the canons... > 4. I get the impression from reading the mailing list that there is a > confusion about what is required for supporting a USB scanner vs. what is > required for supporting a parallel port scanner. In my opinion, the > instruction files and documentation for both USB and parport scanners > should have big fat warning signs near the very beginning of the > respective files. This would include at least the files Plustek-USB.txt > and /backends/plustek_driver/INSTALL. You are right here. I'll change this. > 5. I didn't try the buttons. Do they work, too? No and currently not planned as it is quite not clear how SANE will support this... Gerhard
