I am using xsane to "copy": print to a laserjet printer what is scanned from a Print-Scan-Copy (PSC) ink jet printer. It works, and saves me gobs on ink. Xsane displays an "image position" widget. I am trying to understand how this works. It is not intuitive to me.
I am using xsane on an amd64 Gentoo GNU/Linux system. I am pleased how well it works, with an HP 2175 PSC printer for scanning. Amazingly, right "out of the box." For some reason, though xsane has gotten into a state where no change in scanned area is made when this widget is used, no matter what the setting, I get the same result. The result isn't, as I said, intuitive to me. When the box shown is in the upper right hand corner, where on the scanner is the upper right hand corner? It hasn't been clear to me, even when it worked a couple of months ago: I have had to try and try, and finally through trial and error come up with a setting that worked to get a whole page scanned and printed. The zoom slider isn't making sense either. Perhaps this feedback will be useful to someone who works or worked on this amazingly useful piece of programming. Thank you whomever you are. Alan Davis
