On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> wrote: > 2008/12/20 m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>: >> I can't speak for Jeremy, but there is the general bug that gscan2pdf >> only shows options that it knows, which hides alot of nice >> compression, or image processing, or imprinter options provided by >> office scanners. > > Nobody has ever reported this "general bug" to me. I have implemented > any requests for specific options I have received.
And that is the problem: a user that only uses gscan2pdf won't know the other options are there, and so won't report them missing. > > Having written Perl bindings for SANE, I will be able to do a more > general interface, but please file the bug on Sourceforge or against > the Debian package in the mean time. Yes- your Perl bindings are most useful, hopefully you will find the time to convert the app to use them :) > Perhaps you have some ideas on what to do for those scanners which > offer so many options that the option dialog window is so tall that it > must be scrolled - maybe some way of showing/hiding certain options > that you don't use. Hopefully the backend will breakup the options into reasonable sized chunks with SANE_TYPE_GROUP options, and you could add a tab for each group. Also, some options will have SANE_CAP_ADVANCED set, and you can hide those until a user requests to see adv options. allan > > Regards > > Jeff > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
