Sounds like a print driver problem. allan
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Keith Locke <rkeith1084 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks, Allan. > > That was a good question... because: > I went back and found the earliest scans to pdf with this machine, which were > from November. ?They were also shrunken. ?(Did I feel stupid!). ?Had to break > out the ruler and compare to originals. > > All my earlier scans (before November) were with another machine where the > scanner used to sit, an old Hardy Heron machine. ?So, I am embarrassed to > admit that this problem must be with this machine from the time I first used > it to scan. > > (I didn't notice it before because I was mostly scanning ads and notes that > were fed into GIMP, and not full-size pages to print. ?And the occasional > page to FAX. ?I hadn't printed those, so I hadn't noticed it. ?The FAX > recipients were probably noticing it and never said a word.) > > I also HAD a different machine with Intrepid on it that didn't shrink things > noticeably, but it is long gone, fried hard drive, motherboard, and all. ?It > didn't noticeably shrink pages. ?In fact, using XSane, they were dead-on > sizewise. ?Same scanner I've had for years, my first. ?A survivor. > > So given that I now realize the problem with this machine has been the same > from the beginning, is there a fix? > > Keith > > > > --- On Fri, 2/25/11, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Scan zoom / shrink questions >> To: "Keith Locke" <rkeith1084 at yahoo.com> >> Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >> Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 8:06 AM >> Print an old pdf from before this >> started happening. Is it also shrunken? >> >> allan > > > > > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
