Hi, yes, indeed, the pnm backend gives nice results in all xsane modes. I will look into my backend again the week after next...
Just to be sure, you didn't hear of that problem with other backends? Karsten Oliver Rauch wrote: > > Hello. > > I did some tests with xsane-0.86 (save and viewer) and the pnm backend in > lineart mode some time ago and was not able to find any problems. I would > be glad to help if I can reproduce the problems. What I need is an exact > description under which conditions the image is sheared . > > The automatic area dection tries to find out if the background is black or > white > and searches the first pixels that are not of the background color. > In grayscale and color mode there is threshold defined in xsane so that > e.g. a bright gray is seen as a whit background. When scanning a lineart image > then one single pixel that is not of the background color defines the area > of the image. Make sure that the background of the scanner is clean. > > Bye > Oliver >
