scanadf is basically deprecated. does scanimage work? allan
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:26 PM, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/30/2012 02:12 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: >> >> On 29 April 2012 21:27, sean darcy<seandarcy2 at gmail.com> ?wrote: >>> >>> scanadf is generating images that aren't PNM. Maybe the it's generating >>> raw? >>> Shouldn't it be generating a PNM file? Is there an option to have it >>> generate a PNM file? >> >> >> I think this is problem with the backend not sending enough data - >> i.e. the backend reports via params that a scan of n x m should >> appear, and therefore the frontend writes the appropriate PNM header, >> plus all the data it gets until it gets EOF, but that the x bytes that >> appear don't make up n x m. >> >> Any post processing tools than complain that the PNM is not valid. >> >> I've had to put a workaround in the development version of gscan2pdf >> to pad the end of the file with whitespace in order to get a valid >> PNM. >> >> Regards >> >> Jeff >> > > I don't think that's the problem here. I looked at the scan file with a hex > editor. All zeros. No magic number, no x or y. > > sean > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ?to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
