"Dr. Georg N.Nyman" <gnny...@swissonline.ch> writes: > Hello to everyone, > I am a semiprofessional photographer and consultant and would like to > get a better understanding of the Sane/Xsane capabilities for my area of > interest. > This would mean to scan color negs and color slides ( 4x5" ) with > Sane/Xsane. Fortunatelly, one of my scanners is on the list of supported > hardware ( Epson 3200 Photo ), two are not ( Canon 9900 F and Sony > UY-S90 ). > I have a few questions and maybe one of you experts can help: > 1. Scanning negatives - in the Windows world, during the scan and its > preview, the neg is inverted properly to judge the exposure and to make > initial color and exposure corrections. I did sofar not find this option > with Kooka, and with Xsane only rather imperfect. > 2. Once a preview scan of the whole scanable area was made, it would be > fine to make a more detailed preview scan of the selected image area to > properly determine the area to be scanned... > 3. Scanning large format transparent items means that the size > adjustments of the scan need to show lower % values than currently > available - 35% is not small enough. I would need to reduce it to values > down to 10% and even sometimes a bit less.
You may be interested in "Image Scan! for Linux". It is available from http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
