On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 19:17:00 +0000, mick crane wrote: > On 2019-01-02 10:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 09:40:33AM +0000, Joe wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:59:48 +0100 > > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > And next time, try to find a scanner which provides you with a raw > > > > image. Wrapping images in PDFs is... not elegant. > > > > > > They do this to cater for multiple pages, whereas in my experience, > > > most scanning is single-sheet. Even the Simple Scan program on Debian > > > defaults to pdf, something which cannot be configured. > > > > I get this, and offering that option seems to make sense. But forcing > > it (and forcing an image format like JPEG) doesn't make sense. So either > > provide the knobs or let the host software do it. > > > > My scanner just transfers the raw image. The scan program is responsible > > for the transformation to the target format, which I can choose. This is > > how /I/ want to be treated, as a paying customer. > > > > having a scanner do PDFs is weird, see Obama birth certificate, how do you > know is a faithful copy ?
Eh? > A piece of paper with marks on it is an image and should be treated as such. Egad. I wish I had thought of that. -- Brian.
