if you just want to scan them, only to resize them, then why not scan them at a lower res?
wysiwg for size depends entirely on the size of your screen, and what res you are running at. not a simple thing for sane to work with. allan On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 [email protected] wrote: > Well, my point was that I would like to have some kind of wysiwyg (with > respect > to _size_, that is) for scanning. > > At this moment, after scanning at 200x200 dpi I have to rescale the image > manually to the size of the original (which is a bit tiresome when you're > scanning dozens of documents), or file it as is (which is over 2 times as big > as > the original). > > But I must say, I've been fiddling with gqview options and I have found an > acceptable setting for viewing these non-rescaled images with automatical > zooming. > > Non-rescaled images do take a lot more disk-space, though. > > Bye. > > > Citeren Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]>: > >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:21:23PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: >>> I noticed that scanning at resolutions of, say, 200 dpi and more results in >>> digital images of ever bigger size, to a point that it is practically >> impossible >>> to read them on screen. >> >> Why? The actual size of the image on the screen is completely up to >> you. It doesn't depend on the resolution which you used for scanning. >> The image is scaled to whatever you want, at least with the image >> viewers I know. >> >> By the way: Which program to view images are you talking about? >> >>> I'm sorry to say this, but I think this is a rather dumb situation. At work >> I >>> have to use Windows (sadly enough), and there changing the resolution of >> scans >>> doesn't influence the size of the digital image: A4 stays A4 under all >>> circumstances. >> >> If this were true you couldn't view a complete A4 page on a "normal" >> screen as A4 is just to big. Fortunately, you can just select the zoom >> factor you want. >> >>> I wonder if there couldn't be any kind of automatic rescaling be built into >> the >>> sane-code? I can't imagine anybody being happy with things as they are now, >> with >>> respect to this. >> >> You want to down-scale the image data? As far as I know, xsane can do >> this. After the scan, select menu "Geometry"->"Scale". >> >> Bye, >> Henning >> >> -- >> sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >> to [email protected] >> > > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to [email protected] > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
