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Package: gscan2pdf
Version: 2.12.5-1
Severity: normal
The act of scanning a few pages is greatly automated and facilitated
by gscan2pdf, but it's a rather confusing process, and especially
one during which you better not interact with the UI.
I've recorded a screencast to illustrate the problems that happen
when multiple pages are scanned, in this case 5:
The process counter is rather inconsistent. During the video, you
can see the following sequence:
* Process 1 of 1
* Process 1 of 2
* Process 1 of 1
* Process 1 of 2
* Process 2 of 3 (to-png)
* Process 2 of 4
* Process 3 of 5 (to-png)
* Process 4 of 6 (to-png)
* Process 5 of 6 (to-png)
* Process 6 of 7 (unpaper)
* Process 6 of 8
* Process 7 of 9 (unpaper)
* Process 8 of 10 (unpaper)
* Process 9 of 11 (to-png)
* Process 10 of 12 (to-png)
* Process 11 of 12 (to-png)
* Process 12 of 12 (to-png)
According to this, for 5 pages, 12 processes were invoked: 8 times
to-png and 3 times unpaper, and none of this squares with 5 pages.
It's also pretty confusing how the total number of processes keeps
increasing.
gscan2pdf knows how many post-processes it needs to run for each
page. A better display might then be "Processing page 2 (operation 1
of 2)", one page at a time.
At about 10s into the video, you will also see the selected page in
the left pane jump around quite wildly. This means it's impossible
to start interacting with the first couple of pages, while scanning
is still going on.
I think it would be a lot better if the selection wouldn't move at
all. Page 1 scans and displays, then page 2 scans and displays, but
if the user meanwhile selected page 1, the selection stays on
page 1. And in the background, while page 2 is scanning, page 1 is
being post-processed, but without needing to be selected.
Thanks for your consideration.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gscan2pdf depends on:
ii imagemagick 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+b2
ii imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick] 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3+b2
ii libconfig-general-perl 2.63-1
ii libdate-calc-perl 6.4-1.1
ii libfilesys-df-perl 0.92-6+b7
ii libgoocanvas2-perl 0.06-2
ii libgtk3-imageview-perl 10-1
ii libgtk3-perl 0.038-1
ii libgtk3-simplelist-perl 0.21-1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.76-1+b1
ii libimage-magick-perl 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3
ii libimage-sane-perl 5-1+b2
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.430-2
ii liblocale-codes-perl 3.70-1
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-4+b2
ii liblog-log4perl-perl 1.54-1
ii libossp-uuid-perl [libdata-uuid-perl] 1.6.2-1.5+b10
ii libpdf-builder-perl 3.023-1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1+b1
ii libreadonly-perl 2.050-3
ii librsvg2-common 2.52.5+dfsg-3+b1
ii libset-intspan-perl 1.19-2
ii libtiff-tools 4.3.0-5
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.31-1
ii sane-utils 1.1.1-4
Versions of packages gscan2pdf recommends:
ii djvulibre-bin 3.5.28-2
ii pdftk 2.02-5+b1
ii pdftk-java [pdftk] 3.2.2-1
ii tesseract-ocr 4.1.1-2.1
ii unpaper 6.1-2+b2
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1
gscan2pdf suggests no packages.
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.''`. martin f. krafft <[email protected]> @martinkrafft
: :' : proud Debian developer
`. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck
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gscan2pdf is now only a transition package.
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