[sane-devel] Poor Quality, Large Files

2011-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
This is the problem: On 30 December 2011 17:10, wrote: >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> ?gscan2pdf : Depends: libsane-perl but it is not installable The reason that libsane-perl is no longer in testing (i.e. only in unstable) is that it doesn't pass tests on a sparc, and I

[sane-devel] Poor Quality, Large Files

2011-12-30 Thread cac...@quantum-sci.com
# aptitude install gscan2pdf The following NEW packages will be installed: gscan2pdf{b} libgtk2-ex-simple-list-perl{a} libgtk2-imageview-perl{a} libgtkimageview0{a} The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed: cuneiform djvulibre-bin gocr libgtk2-ex-podviewer-perl sane

[sane-devel] Poor Quality, Large Files

2011-12-28 Thread cac...@quantum-sci.com
On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 08:01:39 AM m. allan noah wrote: > you are using the wrong application. try gscan2pdf instead. Thanks, but it seems uninstallable. (below) I used the Ubuntu deb line in my sources.list and tried every release back to Karmic, and same error. I've fussed with this

[sane-devel] Poor Quality, Large Files

2011-12-27 Thread m. allan noah
you are using the wrong application. try gscan2pdf instead. allan On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:56 AM, wrote: > > Does anyone know why XSane causes such large PDF files to be made, especially > in Multipage mode? ?Three pages is 12.5MB, very difficult to email. > > Also why are my scans so shadow

[sane-devel] Poor Quality, Large Files

2011-12-27 Thread cac...@quantum-sci.com
Does anyone know why XSane causes such large PDF files to be made, especially in Multipage mode? Three pages is 12.5MB, very difficult to email. Also why are my scans so shadowy for white pages? I raise gamma and brightness and it helps, but what happened to the Lineart option? This is a Can