I just upgraded my main machine from Buster to Bullseye; I have two more machines that I upgraded recently and they're running well so I decided to go for it on the machine on which I do my important work. The upgrade went smoothly and all in all works quite well.
But then I tried scanning. I do a lot of scanning to PDF using xsane and an Epson WF-2760 all-in-one. Most of my scans are of printed documents in black and white (I use the Lineart setting in xsane). Last night I tried to do some scans for the first time since the upgrade. The xsane windows looked different from before; they opened in different locations on the screen and had different contents. The scans themselves looked nothing like what I was used to; the contrast was washed out (and adjusting the contrast slider doesn't help). When I scan a cheque the background causes random dots to appear - and there's no threshold slider to adjust this. The main xsane window added sliders for gamma, brightness, and contrast, which I didn't have before; there was no threshold slider, although on a subsequent run this slider appeared but seemed to have no effect. I've been getting inconsistent results - on one invocation the gamma, contrast, brightness, and threshold sliders disappeared, and now they all appear except for threshold. I tried copying the previous version of xsane back into /usr/bin from the backup I took before the upgrade, but that made no difference. Ditto for the configuration files in ~/.sane/xsane. This suggests that it's not the new version of xsane itself that is broken. I know this all sounds rather incoherent, but I don't seem to be getting coherent results. Is there an xsane expert who can help me restore the ability to scan black-and-white documents? (Colour and grayscale scans work beautifully, but that's not what I need right now.) If all else fails, is there another scanning package I could use in the meantime? -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | It can be beautiful - X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't. / \ if you read it the right way. | -- Lily Tomlin
