Jonathan Buzzard wrote: > > [email protected] said: > > "I have a scanner - Epson Perfection 1240U (usb) - which works very > > well with sane/xsane for ordinary scanning, but when I'm scanning > > negatives (photos) the result is useless because it is very pale. I > > still have to scan my negatives in Win2000. > > Should be possible to get better colors for the negatives as well?" > > You need proper software for doing the orange mask correction for negatives. > There is currently no Sane front end that does this. It is distinctly > not a bug. > > If you want to scan negatives under Linux at the moment the only > viable solution is VueScan which is shareware.
xsane-0.79 has an experimental support for negative scanning. Please take a look at preferences->medium Bye Oliver -- Homepage: http://www.rauch-domain.de sane-umax: http://www.rauch-domain.de/sane-umax xsane: http://www.xsane.org E-Mail: mailto:[email protected]
