Re: [hpoj-devel] Problems with PSC 2210 mostly solved by upgrading hpoj to 0.91

[Jarl F. <ja...@so...>]

Thanks for your succes report.

Michal Kosmulski <M.K...@el...> writes:

> hello,
> About two weeks ago I wrote to this mailing list about problems I had with
> my PSC 2210 when scanning while hpoj 0.90 was used. The problems included
> the whole scan area always being Letter sized (while the scanner is also
> supposed to be able to scan an A4 page) and the area actually being
> scanned being not exactly the same as the area selected for scanning in
> the scan preview window.

First of all, I don't think the scan area was Letter before, it was an
offset bug (I believe), and the scanned area looked like if it were
scanning Letter size paper.

> I was suggested to upgrade hpoj to 0.91, but was unable to check if it
> solved these problems until now.
> So now I installed and compiled hpoj 0.91 and indeed the scanning area is
> now A4. Just out of curiousity, what would I need to do to set the scan
> area back to Letter size if I ever needed to ? (I hope it's possible
> without having to modify the sources and recompile)

I believe you need to read the manual of the scanner software
(i.e. kooka) :-)

> It also seems that problems with the area actually scanned being different
> than the area selected in the scan preview are mostly fixed. At this
> moment the actual scan area seems to be shifted about 0.5 cm down relative
> to what was selected in the scan preview (at least with kooka), but this
> is already much better than what I had with hpoj 0.90.
> Thank you for all your help.
> Michal Kosmulski

Jarl