Print an old pdf from before this started happening. Is it also shrunken? allan
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Keith Locke <rkeith1084 at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi. ?I'm experiencing a problem that I had never experienced before--and > don't know if it happened through an update or if I fat-fingered something. > > I use mostly XSane as the front end, running on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic. ?My > scanner is a HP 3970. ?The printer is a Brother HL 5240. ?My output suddenly > began being shrunk about 1 inch in both multipage and in copy. ?I installed > flegita, and that didn't help matters. ?I installed gscan2pdf, and that > worked the same... no joy. > > I reinstalled all 3 and same results. > > I completely UNINSTALLED all three (I think that this also uninstalled Sane.) > and only reinstalled XSane and gscan2pdf. ?Now the copy function of XSane is > about right, but the multipage is still shrinking my pdfs about an inch all > around. ?Gscan2pdf shrinks it about 1.5 inches--it's worse. ?That's the best > result, which is using manual with offsets of 0 and 0. > > I've tried scanimage from the terminal with various parameters found in > different places, and it's unworkable. ?I've gotten images that were 24 > inches in the long dimension. > > My paper size is 8.5 x 11. > > It seems that Sane is probably the culprit since all the front ends are > giving me the shrinkage; however, it's possible in my mind that XSane adjusts > some parameter that gscan2pdf might grab to use. (??) > > Any help is appreciated. ?I get the daily digest so this might stretch out > some. > > THANKS!!! > > Keith > > > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > ? ? ? ? ? ? to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org > -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
