On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 3:27 PM Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote: > > 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?
In case it helps, here is the package info for xsane in Bullseye: https://packages.debian.org/stable/xsane . On the right is the Developer Information which includes testing results, bug reports and maintainer information. It also looks like GIMP may have subsumed some of xsane's functionality. Maybe things work better in GIMP than xsane. Jeff
