I have been working on a php implementation of a scanner interface. I am making some progress. I have my code at https://bitbucket.org/jeffsadowski/phpsaneng
(Not anywhere ready for mainstream as for now it just lists the options selected when I hit scan.) I'm at the point where I want to start a preview and I need to make a decision of how to get a preview. I don't see a preview option to scanimage and am curious how xsane gets it's preview. When I try a preview with xsane with test:1 scanner I get a perfect grid. (I had set the "Select the test picture" to Grid) using scanimage '-h' '-d' 'test:1' I saw the options for test:1 So I tried scanimage '--batch=preview.jpg' '--format' 'jpeg' '--batch-count' '1' '-d' 'test:1' '--test-picture' 'Grid' which did not come up with the same grid I get in the preview that xsane shows. I thought well maybe it is getting the max x and y so I tried scanimage '--batch=preview.jpg' '--format' 'jpeg' '--batch-count' '1' '-d' 'test:1' '--test-picture' 'Grid' '-x' '200' '-y' '200' that wasn't it either. Then I noticed xsane can only set x and y up to 20 which is weird. even the defaults are 80 for x and 100 for y I tried 20x20 and 80x100 but those didn't result in an image that xsane did either. I also tried lowest resolutions that isn't it either. So I am curious how xsane acquires a preview? Or better yet what is the best way to acquire a preview with scanimage? I think I would want to have the scanner scan as fast as possible so I thought lowest resolution. I also think I want my preview of the full bed so max x and max y the image I get when I try scanimage '--batch=preview.jpg' '--format' 'jpeg' '--batch-count' '1' '-d' 'test:1' '--resolution' '1' '--test-picture' 'Grid' '-x' '200' '-y' '200' doesn't even look like a grid at all. So I thought I'd ask this list for some help. -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org