On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 22:02 +0100, Mark Elkins wrote: > 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. > I agree. I never said that I intend to do anything about it. I will live with it until I get an up-to-date scanner. > > 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. > As Terry and Ralph note, the transfer/conversion from an ASCM file to an epub is the property of Adobe, but it can be accomplished under wine, but not natively in Linux.
and Google earth - I did have it working a couple of versions ago of Kubuntu, but not any more. Something for me to occupy my time with when the kids have gone back home on Tuesday. 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
