On Tuesday 17 August 2004 12:17, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> >In GIMP 1.2 one could invoke xsane from the menu :
> >File --> Acquire
> >That option is missing in my GIMP2.
> >Solutions ?
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Kaj ,
> I stick to standard Mandrake packages and haven't had the chance
> anyway to install the latest gimp/sane packages.
>
> The ones you need is,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -qa | grep gimp
> gimp-1.2.5-10mdk
> xsane-gimp-0.92-1mdk ----------- this is the
> important one. libgimp1.2-1.2.5-10mdk
> gimp-data-extras-1.2.0-7mdk
> gimpprint-4.2.6-14mdk
> gimp-perl-1.2.5-10mdk
> xpcd-gimp-2.08-20mdk
> libgimp1.2_1-1.2.5-10mdk
>
> You already have sane backends , or it wouldn't work at all.
> If you already have gimp2 version of xsane-gimp installed,and it
> doen't work then my guess there is a bug.
>
> You can call xsane on it's own, of course, but then it's not part
> of gimp pluggings and you have to save the image file and open
> gimp and run the sane image file again, a bit of a bother really.
>
> Myself, I'm happy to continue with the above gimp/sane versions
> and that all works fine.Does everything I need of it so far. I
> suppose I'm lazy, but I just don't have enough time to do
> everything all at once all the time, but I can understang you
> wanting to get to grips with it all at this time.
>
> John
Well John, now I'm learning to scan my old B/W negatives using
GIMP's acquire function. Xsane seems to work perfectly so far. Of
course I had to do a lot of experimenting first. One thing that
bothers me though is that I have to scan at resolution 1200 in
order to reasonably large pictures. But the quality is quite
amazing. And it seems to work best scanning with full color range
rather than standard negative. Wonder why.
I tried Vuescan as well, but honestly, the sheer number of options
and settings confuse me more than somewhat, so I guess I'll stick
with xsane for now.
Learning is fun.
Kaj Haulrich.
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