Hi, I have some comments on xsane about page counts and about ADF:
[1] If you're using a flatbed scanner and in the main scanning window you change the number of scan pages to a number, for example 30, and you start the scan, xsane is pretty much unstoppable (seems to be a bug). If you press cancel, it cancels the single page that it is scanning at that time, but it keeps on trying to scan the other pages, so you end up having to press cancel 30 times to get out of it. It also doesn't give you opportunity to put the next page in the scanner. So with flatbed scanning, does it really make sense to be able to set the number of scans??? [2] If you're using a scanner with automatic document feeding (ADF), if you don't set the number of pages to some high number, and you leave the number of pages at 1, then even though you put 10 pieces of paper in the scanner and click scan, it will scan the first page and then feed all the others through, ignoring them, because of the page limit. Also, having to remember to set the number of pages to some high number whenever you start an ADF scan is a bit frustrating from a user perspective, because it is natural for the user to expect the scanner to scan all the pages they put in. So with ADF scanning, does it really make sense to be able to set the number of scans? The user would normally put the pages in the scanner that they want to scan and expect it to scan them all. --------- I think it would be a good idea for xsane to at least have a user preference to automatically determine the number of pages to scan, 1 for flatbed mode, and unlimited for ADF mode, and when that option is selected, leave the ability to select the number of pages off the user interface. -- Dave
