Re: [newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

2004-09-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Once again you saved my blood pressure from winding up into the paint cards, John. Of course the matter was that I didn't install xsane-gimp when I did the re-install. After doing just that everything runs the way I want. The reason I prefer to start xsane from the gimp is that I can add t

Re: [newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

2004-09-19 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 19 September 2004 15:11, John Richard Smith wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >I'm in the process of scanning a lot of old B/W negatives. Until > >now, I could just open GIMP, click File --> Acquire --> Device > >dialog and then xsane would open and work just fine. > > > >But after a file sy

[newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

2004-09-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
I'm in the process of scanning a lot of old B/W negatives. Until now, I could just open GIMP, click File --> Acquire --> Device dialog and then xsane would open and work just fine. But after a file system corruption, I had to reinstall 10.0 official. That in itself went smoothly, took about 20

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 18 August 2004 00:10, charlie wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:16 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > > > Can't help you there (g). My wish is to find a way to > > "antiskew" some photos : I live by the sea here in Denmark and > > a lot of photos has an oblique horizon (too many beers, > > p

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread charlie
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 03:16 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Can't help you there (g). My wish is to find a way to "antiskew" > some photos : I live by the sea here in Denmark and a lot of photos > has an oblique horizon (too many beers, perhaps). I'm no champion > at image manipulation, but I remember a

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 20:24, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Double LMClick tab in gimp window (snapshot210.jpg) > > choose corrective and rotation > > Double LMclick the image window, > you get a grid. > Single LMclick the grid to grip the grid and rotate it. > single LMclick the rotate tab. >

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Can't help you there (g). My wish is to find a way to "antiskew" some photos : I live by the sea here in Denmark and a lot of photos has an oblique horizon (too many beers, perhaps). I'm no champion at image manipulation, but I remember a nice application called "Photo>Graph

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 15:53, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Your gonna end up with a fair collection of cardboard cutout > wierd and wonderfuls to make slipping negs straight in and out. > Actually John, I found out that using a plain, clear plate of glass over my 6x6 and 3x4 negatives is suf

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:20, John Richard Smith wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >On Tuesday 17 August 2004 08:04, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >>On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:48, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Kaj; > >>>What kind of scanner are you using I'v been checking out the > >>>LS-2000 but

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: OK, my Athlon XP2100 works fairly well and 512 MB of RAM makes the processing quite fast. We have about the same then. When scanning a 35 mm B/W negative at 2400 resolution it takes about 20 seconds to complete. In order to keep the resulting file size modest, I save the sc

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2004 08:04, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:48, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Kaj; What kind of scanner are you using I'v been checking out the LS-2000 but might be interested in other's. John Richard Smith has been extremely helpful to

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 13:36, John Richard Smith wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >Well John, now I'm learning to scan my old B/W negatives using > >GIMP's acquire function. Xsane seems to work perfectly so far. > > Of course I had to do a lot of experimenting first. One thing > > that bothers me

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well John, now I'm learning to scan my old B/W negatives using GIMP's acquire function. Xsane seems to work perfectly so far. Of course I had to do a lot of experimenting first. One thing that bothers me though is that I have to scan at resolution 1200 in order to reasonabl

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 12:17, John Richard Smith wrote: > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu : > >File --> Acquire > >That option is missing in my GIMP2. > >Solutions ? > > > >Regards > > > >Kaj Haulrich. > > Kaj , > I stick to standard Mandrake packages and

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu : File --> Acquire That option is missing in my GIMP2. Solutions ? Regards Kaj Haulrich. Kaj , I stick to standard Mandrake packages and haven't had the chance anyway to install the latest gimp/sane packages. The ones you ne

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 11:50, Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:40:15 +0200 > > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > There must be some way inside GIMP2 settings to give me that > > option ? - Of course I can fall back to GIMP1, but I really > > find GIMP2 a lot easier to use, so I miss that

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:40:15 +0200 Kaj Haulrich wrote: > There must be some way inside GIMP2 settings to give me that > option ? - Of course I can fall back to GIMP1, but I really find > GIMP2 a lot easier to use, so I miss that scanning option. > Ideas ? xsane-gimp will not support gimp2 unt

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread et
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 05:40, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:44, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 08:44, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu : > > > File --> Acquire > > > That option is missing in my GIMP2. > > > Solutio

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 09:44, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 08:44, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu : > > File --> Acquire > > That option is missing in my GIMP2. > > Solutions ? > > > > Regards > > > > Kaj Haulrich. > > urpmi xsane-gimp >

Re: [newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 17 Aug 2004 08:44, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu : > File --> Acquire > That option is missing in my GIMP2. > Solutions ? > > Regards > > Kaj Haulrich. urpmi xsane-gimp derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

[newbie] Scanning from GIMP2

2004-08-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu : File --> Acquire That option is missing in my GIMP2. Solutions ? Regards Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.0) - kernel 2.6.7*

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images [SOLVED]

2003-09-21 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 15:20, ed tharp wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:04, John Richard Smith wrote: > > ed tharp wrote: > > > > >you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages > > >installed > > > > > >if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. >

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-15 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 02:05, Marco Verheul wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that > i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. Couple more points: 1) More thoughts on Kover, after re-reading the scantips web-site, in particular t

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-15 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 02:05, Marco Verheul wrote: > Can anybody give me some idea's how to do it right, or where i can find > a good online tutorial on scanning. > > Marco Try www.scantips.com which has some good basic tutorials about scanning, especially on the vexing issue of scanner resolution v

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Marco Verheul wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:58, John Richard Smith wrote: I got all the right sane packages installed. I got both Gnome and KDE installed and i'm runing Gnome right know. My problem is this: when i used to scan an image on a Windows machine I had real crappy scanning softw

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread Marco Verheul
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 13:58, John Richard Smith wrote: > Marco Verheul wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that > >i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. > > > >What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution o

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:04, John Richard Smith wrote: ed tharp wrote: you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages installed if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. That is quite true, you can scan withing gimp

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:04, John Richard Smith wrote: > ed tharp wrote: > > >you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages > >installed > > > >if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. > > > > > That is quite true, you can scan withing gimp , b

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread John Richard Smith
ed tharp wrote: you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages installed if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. That is quite true, you can scan withing gimp , but right now the problem is to get sane to scan correctly at all. The original m

Re: [newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 09:58, John Richard Smith wrote: > Marco Verheul wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that > >i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. > > > >What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution o

[newbie] Scanning Images

2003-09-14 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I'm strugling with scanning images. I'd like to scan a CD cover, so that i can save it with the same dimension as the real thing. What i tried is to scan a cover with Kooka at a resolution of 600. Then i loaded the picture in Kover where the images is resized again. I figured since i used

Re: [newbie] scanning only as root

2003-02-22 Thread Kristjan
<<< On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 13:30:25 -0600 Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > On Saturday 22 February 2003 12:23 pm, Kristjan wrote: > > Hi > > > > Need advie again > > > > I have my scanner working only when I'm root. > > So there are permission issues, but sort of don't get where ?

Re: [newbie] scanning only as root

2003-02-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 22 February 2003 12:23 pm, Kristjan wrote: > Hi > > Need advie again > > I have my scanner working only when I'm root. > So there are permission issues, but sort of don't get where ? > > as a normal user I get error with xsane "No device available" > other apps say they are unahle to lo

[newbie] scanning only as root

2003-02-22 Thread Kristjan
Hi Need advie again I have my scanner working only when I'm root. So there are permission issues, but sort of don't get where ? as a normal user I get error with xsane "No device available" other apps say they are unahle to locate scaner. can anybody advise where I need to change the permiss

[newbie] Scanning

2002-01-17 Thread Graham Watkins
I am running Mandrake 7.2 (Old, I know, but every time I've upgraded there have been problems that take a while to sort out and now I've got a system that by and large works well, I'm reluctant to mess with it.) I have Sane 1.03 installed but it isn't working with my OpticPro 9630P. I'm sure t

Re: [newbie] Scanning (was xscanimage)

2001-05-30 Thread Terry Smith
I just sent a message indicating I had added a HP PSC 500 printer to my linux box last evening. It's an 'all-in-one' unit which prints, scans and copies. It's being discontinued and I got a good deal. Works well on the windoze side of the house. I'd like to use the scanner under linux. I know not