Greetings; Several things of note in the ability of impress to import from a scanner could use some attention.
1. When selecting the source of the capture, the default device would appear to be my tv card, a pcHDTV-3000. However, since I was more interested in checking the scanner interface, I didn't try to capture from that. 2. When selecting the plustek driver for my Epson 1250u, it apparently does not query the device, so the window must be closed with the upper right button, and then the whole menu chain re-opened. This is sort of fiddly. I did wait several seconds thinking it would query that driver after I had selected it and find its options, but it didn't seem to want to do that. It should. 3. Once this is done, it only shows 2 selections for resolution, 50 dpi and 2,400 dpi. I foolishly went on, leaving it at 2,400 dpi for a scan but it ran me about 500 megs into swap, and in the downconversion to display resolution of about 158 dpi for the current screen, it munched along on it for about 4 minutes after the scanner hed was parked before the OOM handlers apparently killed it and cleaned it up, at which point I did a swapoff -a, followed by a swapon -a to reset that, so the cleanup, at least for kernel-2.6.16 seems to have been adequate, with no error messages showing in either messages or dmesg. 4. On repeating this sequence, but determined to reset it to a 300 dpi rate, I found the error checkers for that box continually overriding what I typed, and it took several minutes of fiddling to actually get it to show 300 dpi in that box. Move that error check to when you have clicked the equ of the "go do it" button please or possibly to when focus is removed from that entry box, which would be the ideal time to bring up a box and call attention to "pebkac". :) 5. At 300 dpi, it actually worked rather well! Hats off the the folks doing the actual data conversions, particularly the independent x/y scaling which is a very nice touch indeed. I suspect it would work equally well at 600 dpi, overkill for most work I believe unless building billboard sized files. We have in fact done that using other software at the tv station, resolution effectively limited by the size of the cd, and I believe the last one we made was put on a dvd for transport to the printers. And used most of it for that one image. It does look nice on the billboard though. :) To make a long story shorter, it worked pretty well, but it sure was a bit of fiddly frustration to make it work thanks to those #2 & #4 "problems". Maybe 2.10 or so can address this, making it considerably more User Friendly(TM)? -- Cheers & Congratulations, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
