Hi, [email protected] writes:
> I am running Xsane under Ubuntu 64bit and my printer is an Epson > ET-4550. I've had trouble getting Xsane to recognise it wirelessly, so > I am using a USB connection. The machine sits about 4 feet from my > desktop PC. > > The printer has a document feeder, but I am trying to scan non-standard > sheets, so these need to be placed on the platen. I am trying to get > multi-page pdfs, but it's quite hard, as I have to quickly open the lid > of the scanner and replace the page before it starts scanning the next > page, and I can only tell when to do this by listening to the tone of > the motor driving the scanner arm! > > Is there a way of setting Xsane to pause between each page of the scan, > or is there a better way of achieving what I am trying to do? Thanks. If you can translate your non-default scan settings to command-line options, then yes. You can use scanimage --batch-prompt [other-options] to do what you want. See the scanimage manual page for details. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join -- sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to [email protected]
