On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:04, John Richard Smith wrote: > ed tharp wrote: > > >you know you 'can' scan from within gimp... if you have all the packages > >installed > > > >if you have the xsane-gimp and xsane installed it should anyway. > > > > > That is quite true, you can scan withing gimp , but right now the > problem is to get sane to scan correctly at all. The original messagee > complained about the quality of the result. I wanted to make sure sane > is installed( behind the programme he is using is almost certainly sane > backends) properly and set up for his make model of scanner. > > John yep, think the quality problem is most likely rooted in the size he is scanning the image to, then reducing it,,,, and then saving it in some other format, every step degrading some,,, but 600dpi 'ought to be' a big enough file to start with.
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