Re: [hpoj-devel] Re: officejet

[Edwin v. O. <edw...@se...>]

> > * Perhaps you can include a small comment that you have to create a
> > symbolic link to xscanimage from the gimp/plug-ins directory in order=
 to
> > scan from the gimp (I guess most people will use that).
>
> They really should document this better in the SANE package, because th=
is
> question comes up occasionally on the sane-devel mailing list.  I'll ma=
ke
> a note of this in SCAN-HOWTO, but I'll need to research the specifics s=
ince
> I don't know it offhand.  Do you remember where you found this informat=
ion?
The boot "The Artists' guide to the Gimp" sais at page 239:
"Once you've aquired and installed the SANE package per the instructions,=
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make sure you have a link from the /usr/local/bin/xscanimage program to y=
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$HOME/.gimp/plug-ins directory. This will allow the GIMP to see the plug-=
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at start time. The xscanimage program can actually run on its own or as a=
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GIMP plug-in, so you probably want to leave it under /usr/local/bin and j=
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make a symbolic link to your .gimp/plug-ins directory for it. To do this =
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the following command:
% ln -s /usr/local/bin/xscanimage ~/.gimp/plug-ins"

Thanks for your other comments David,
Edwin

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Edwin van Opstal
S.E. Technology