[PLUG] Xsane help, desperate

[John Jason Jordan]

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.