[PLUG] Xsane help, desperate

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 02:28:39 -0700
Mike Connors <mconnors1 at gmail.com> dijo:

>>
>> The problem:
>>
>> I cannot figure out how to tell it the page size is 8.5  11. It
>> insists on scanning only the left side, 3.99 x 11. I cannot find a
>> page size anywhere in any of the buttons.
>>
>> Found this, hope it helps....?
>
>In xsane, choose Window, and enable "Show Preview" if it isn't already
>enabled.
>
>On the preview window, below the image display area, you can choose
>paper size from a drop down (A4 = DIN A4 port), US users will want
>legal or letter.
>
>Press "Acquire Preview" to see if you've got what you want, then press
>"Scan" (in the main window) to actually do the scan.

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.

2) I installed gscan2pdf and it does the same thing. That is, it shows
the whole page, but most of it is washed out and unusable. But just
before it shows the whole page the page with only the left 3.99 inches
appears for a brief flash.

3) I installed Skanlite (the KDE frontend for sane), and it scans only
the left 3.99 inches.

4) I renamed the ~/.sane folder, and all three front ends still scan
only the left 3.99 inches.

Conclusions: 

1) It's not in my settings.
2) It's not in the GUI front end to sane that I am using.

Furthermore, I used to scan pages and pages with Xsane on Ubuntu and
never had any problem. But this is the first time I have tried to scan
with Fedora 11.

I am currently trying to figure out if it's possible to scan from the
command line. Since doing so would probably still use the sane
libraries I probably will still have no joy, but it's my last hope.