[PLUG] Xsane help, desperate

[Patrick J. Timlick]

I have a LIDE 25 and use XSANE, on Ubuntu 10.4 (32 bit). Xsane works
flawlessly.

I suggest you completely uninstall xsane and then reinstall it.  Otherwise,
if you have a digital camera with a macro setting, you might try that.

Good luck, Pat

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 07:06:16 -0700 (PDT)
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>
> >On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> >> I have come to the conclusion that it is a bug.
> >>
> >> 1) I did the above exactly as stated and it still scans only the left
> >> 3.99 inches of the page.
> >
> >   When you look at the preview there is a dashed rectangle that
> > defines the
> >area to be included in the scan. Perhaps that rectangle excludes the
> >right side of the page.
> >
> >   When I scan a multipage document to produce a .pdf file I always
> > adjust
> >the rectangle to the same size for each page so the output is
> >consistent. It's easy to overlook that rectanglep; I know that I did
> >when I first started using xsane.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> I have long known of the dotted rectangle, but adjusting it does not
> help. That is, when I first click on Get Preview in the Preview window
> it scans only the left 3.99 inches of the page. When I adjust the
> rectangle the main window changes the page dimensions to match the new
> rectangle. But when I then click on Scan it still scans only the left
> 3.99 inches, regardless of the dimensions of the new rectangle.
>
> I forgot to say that this is Xsane 0.997 on Fedora 11 x86_64. The other
> scanning programs I used (gscan2pdf and Skanlite [KDE]) are alternative
> front ends for the same scanning utility.
>
> >From previous threads I know there is at least one other owner of a
> Canoscan LiDE 30 on the PLUG list. It would be really helpful if
> another user could report their results. At least then I can rule out
> hardware issues.
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