On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:11:11AM +0200, Gerhard Jaeger wrote: > the default area of the plustek backend is NOT A4, it's exactly the small > portion you currently see.
Ah OK, but I don't understand why not A4. No matter. > You might use scanimage --help to see the available options, i.e.: > [SNIPSNAP] > Geometry: > -l 0..215mm [0] > Top-left x position of scan area. > -t 0..297mm [0] > Top-left y position of scan area. > -x 0..215mm [126] > Width of scan-area. > -y 0..297mm [76.21] > Height of scan-area. > > Here you see the default area in brackets. > scanimage -x 215 -y 297 -format tiff >outputfile.tif > should give you the expected result. > That's it I think so; cannot test it yet but will do that asap. My wife was able to scan yesterday simply by adding her to the group scanner, since this seem to be a bug in the Debian Sarge. And she was able to use xsane or OpenOffice many times with no crashes, no driver failure or so, so version 1.0.15-9 of libsane and sane-utils is Okay. Thanx, Aldo.
