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. That is

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 vs

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 the

[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

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 of 600. Then

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

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 , but right now

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

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 of 600. Then

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