Peter Have in the past discussed scanner issues on the DLUG. It seems to me now that as a 2nd hand scanner that Linux supports is so cheap it is probably better to avoid the attempt at a full scale software engineering project to try to get Linux to support very old scanners that won't give a great level of scanned resolution whatever os is used.
I tried and tried to find an answer to get a old scanner I had to work properly on Linux and spent far too much time on it. Taking the view I would get there in the end but I didn't on this occasion. Passing a charity shop one day I got another for about £4 which works well with Linux and gives a good scan resolution. Not too sure I want to spent too much time reading ebooks as more than a certain amount of time in front of screen does not go down to well with the old eyes. However I am surprised that ebooks are a problem. Will look into this further when get time. Same goes for Google Earth as make no use of this myself. Cheers Mark Elkins Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:55:15 +0100 From: Peter Merchant <madsmad...@netscape.net> Subject: [Dorset] Linux Limitations To: Dlug <dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> Message-ID: <1314172515.1613.10.camel@kubuntu-pm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" How good is your linux installation? I still have three problems that are preventing me from getting rid of M $. 1. I need XP for my scanner, which is so old and odd that it is not supported in Linux. 2. I cannot get Google Earth to work. Nearly there, application is running, but no earth. 3. Downloading library ebooks. They come as an ascm XML file, that is used by Adobe to download the epub document, that I can then import into Calibre. But under linux I cannot get the epub document. That seems to be something that has not been done in linux yet. Cheers, Peter ------------------------------ -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
