On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:30:51AM -0000, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > It seems to me that gscan2pdf is trying to read the image before it has > been fully written. > > scanimage was modified in 1.0.20 to buffer the image, and to write it > only when complete. > > Please try the attached patch, which flushes the filesystem buffers > immediately before importing the image.
I'll try this the next time I'm at the scanner. > If this doesn't work, the only other idea I have is to hack the import > code to monitor the image as it is written and only import it when the > file size matches the PNM header. But this will be quite a bit of work. How about having scanimage write the image to a pipe, so we can detect EOF, rather than to a temporary file? -- - mdz -- Weird "buffering" of scanned pages with scanimage frontend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401096 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
