Ray wrote: > Thanks for your reply Frank - BUT, as I said, my scanner is not > recognised - > in Ubuntu or in Mint - no lights, no noise, it's not recognised.
I have a Canon scanner that's part of my Canon MP160 all-in-one. It works very well. However, Canon scanners are not well supported through SANE. You can probably find a scanner driver FROM CANON that will do the job. You may have to do some serious googling to find where you can download this from. The site is not in North America; it may be in Japan, but you can see the site in English. I'm not at that computer, so I can't check for you. I installed the driver from Canon and now the scanner works as well as it does in Windows--maybe better. As someone said, this is an Ubuntu issue, not a Scribus issue. Actually, it's a Linux issue, as I suspect all distros would have the same problem of not seeing the scanner until you install the proprietary driver. I don't believe Scribus has an option to import from a scanner. Gimp does, but it's available for only certain scanners and I don't remember if Canon is one of them. It really doesn't matter. Just use the scanner software to scan to a file and then either edit the file in Gimp or put it into Scribus as scanned. --Judy M. USA Registered Linux User #397786 Being productive with VectorLinux 6.0 SOHO
