[Gllug] OT: Scanners

[Chris Bell]

On Sat 17 Aug, will wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I eventually went for the epson perfection 1650 USB.  I had to upgrade hotplug
> to get the scanner recognised, but sane works with the scanner fine.  Thanks
> Vince for the help in getting it all working :-)
> 
> Also, when using Xsane, does anyone know how to limit the dimensions of the
> scanned image?  There is a dialog that shows the dimensions of the area being
> scanned but the image that is produced is always massive.  The only way there
> seems to be of altering the dimensions is to alter tbe DPI, so a 50 DPI scan is
> smaller than the original whereas an 800 DPI scan is many times larger than my
> screen.  I would have thought that the DPI settimg should only alter the quality
> for a given dimension, not the dimension, or am I missing something here.
> 
> Will.

   It is a little while since I used sane, and I don't have a scanner set up
at present, but the normal way is to do a low resolution prescan, then
adjust the exposure and colour balance, and drag the scan limits using the
mouse before the final scan at the required resolution.


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Chris Bell


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