On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 09:02:43 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:

>On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>
>> I have long known of the dotted rectangle, but adjusting it does not
>> help. That is, when I first click on Get Preview in the Preview
>> window it scans only the left 3.99 inches of the page. When I adjust
>> the rectangle the main window changes the page dimensions to match
>> the new rectangle. But when I then click on Scan it still scans only
>> the left 3.99 inches, regardless of the dimensions of the new
>> rectangle.

> What mode are you using, and what format output do you specify? Do
> you get the same results in Save mode (say, .jpg) as with Multipage
> mode (as a .pdf)? Does color mode (line art, b&w, full color) make a
> difference? Is scan source set to Normal? On the preview window is
> the left-most button set to full size?

I'll try some of those suggestions later, but for the moment I'm pretty
sure it's a hardware issue. (See below.)

> It looks to me like a hardware issue if you get only a half-page on
> both preview and scan. Do the other front ends work properly?

Just now I tried live CDs of:

Fedora 13 x86_64 Live (wouldn't boot - bah!)
Jaunty x86_64 Desktop which has Xsane 0.996. Same results.
Hardy Xubuntu x86_64, installed Xsane 0.995 from repo. Same results.

I know it used to scan fine in various versions of Ubuntu, Jaunty being
the last I used before going to Fedora 11. Since it now exhibits the
same half-page problem with the same software I used to use, I am
pretty sure the scanner has gone tits up. Or maybe it's repairable. 

For the present job I'll take the form to a commercial place this
morning so the person I need to send it to can get her class
assignment finished. Then I have to go build a house. Later I'll deal
with what's wrong with the scanner.

Thanks to all for the suggestions.
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