Hi, On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 08:56:35AM +0530, ionm...@indiainfo.com wrote: > Hello Henning, > > In your previous message you said:- > > >Scanner - Epson Perfection 1250. Do you use the plustek or > >Epson Kowa backend? > > I am using the plustek backend.
Then it's either a plustek backend or xsane problem. > >What's the difference between you xsane and xscanimage installations? > >Did you install one of them from source and the other from RPM? > > If xscanimage is part of sane-frontends-1.0.10.tar.gz then they > were both installed from source. Ok. > >Check the "/usr/local/lib" is in /etc/ld.so.conf. > > It was not. The reference was to "/usr/lib". I changed it to > "/usr/local/lib". I invoked xscanimage. I got the same error > message...xscanimage: error while loading shared libraries: > libsane.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory. Check with "ldd /usr/local/bin/xscanimage" to which shared libraries xscanimage points. And check that you really use xscanimage from /usr/local/bin not an old version from /usr/bin. > >What happens if you don't use XSane's automatic film setting > >but set up the colors manually? I.e. use the invert button and > >change the gamma/brightness for the colors so the image looks > >correctly? I'm trying to find out if it's a xsane or backend > >problem. > > I'm not sure I understood your instruction, but here is what I > did. I set it to negative (document source), Fuji negative > (source medium type) and prescanned. The prescan came out > pretty close to real life. I then manually adjusted the gamma > etc. to make the preview look as close as possible to real > life. When I final scanned I got a very different scan from the > preview (saturated, extreme reds etc.) but subsequent scans > were identical. This is a change. > > I then set it to transparency, full color range, reverse and > prescanned. The resulting pre-scan was too washed out to be > adjustable. This makes sense as transparencies are always > darker than negatives. > > I know nothing about scanning software but I find it significant > that if I prescan several times without touching any other > buttons etc. I get scans of different colors different contrast > etc. Yes, that sure sounds like a bug. I don't have problems with xsane's film settings so I would assume that it's a plustek bug. But it's difficult to decide from here. Bye, Henning