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 system

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

[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