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Due to the ever growing threat caused by software patents, I've decided to stop this open source project.

This version adds support for Gimp 2. Some code from the standalone app has been added. Please note, that this version hasn't been tested very well. Please report problems.

I've uploaded two translations for QuiteInsane 0.10.
Czech by "Josef", and French by Yves Ceccone, thanks.
To use these translations, simply copy the unpacked files to
/usr/local/share/quiteinsane/locale
(or wherever you've installed QuiteInsane)

Michael

This is mainly a bugfix release.

-Bugfixes, e.g. in the transparency filter and image viewer. Image resolution not set correctly in "multi-selection" mode.

-Better support of backends, which change the option descriptors, e.g. contraint range or constraint type.

New: Backend translations can be loaded directly from the .mo file (SANE version >= 1.0.10 required) . The conversion to .qm format is no longer necessary.... read more

Bugfixes:
-Image viewer - save button (text) did not work correctly.
-Image viewer - save button (image) did not work correctly.
-Scan dialog - wrong resolution when printing in "multi-scan" mode.
-Saving in TIF format did not work correctly.
-Removed memory leak in image viewer.
-Automatic filename generation: filecounter does not get increased correctly in some situations.

New features:
-"Templates" added to preview widget ("multi-selection" - mode only)
-Added support for KDE print system again. Thanks to Michael Goffioul for suggestions.
-"Multi-scan" mode: automatic filename generation when printing to a file... read more

Unfortunately, there's a quite stupid bug in automatic filename generation.
Please download fileiosupporter_cpp_patch and apply it to fileiosupporter.cpp.
(patch fileiosupporter.cpp fileiosupporter_cpp_patch)
I hope, this will fix the problems.

Sorry
Michael

Bugfixes:
-Fixed possible race condition in QOcrProgress class
-Replaced KPrinter with QPrinter, when linked with KDE libs, because KPrinter caused trouble and crashes all the time without an obvious reason.
-Replaced QLabel with QLineEdit in QTextEditorSetup, because QLabel could become bigger than the screen size when a long fontname was displayed.
-Ensure, that device-selection dialog isn't placed outside desktop
-Fixed "crash on exit", when compiled with Qt3; this was caused by the back-ported QProcess class..
-Wrong preview resolution, when resolution option was of type SANE_WORD_LIST and values were arranged in decreasing order. This caused preview scans with the highest resolution.
-Device name is no longer used to generate a name to save the device settings. This caused problems with hotpluggin.
-When starting (directly) with the previously selected device without querying the available devices, the device settings weren't loaded correctly.... read more

Version 0.1 of the "QuiteInsane GIMP Plugin" has just been released. Like the standalone version of QuiteInsane, it can be compiled with Qt version 2 (>=2.2.3) or Qt version 3 (>=3.0.2). Since this is a real plugin, there are additional requirements:
GIMP (>= 1.1.10, what's a GIMP plugin without GIMP?)
GTK libs (>= 1.2.0)

Please report any problems you encounter.

Thank you,
Michael

New in version 0.7:

Preview window:
-Automatic preview selection, which also works in "multi selection" mode (in this case, images must be ordered top to bottom/one image per row).
Device selection dialog:
-The device selection dialog can be by-passed (useful for users with only one scanner)

New configure switch --disable-qt-styles, because some versions of Qt don't seem to have support for all styles. In this case, the style chooser in the options dialog is disabled.
One can still use the available styles by passing a command line argument to quiteinsane like
quiteinsane -style=motif .... read more

New in version 0.6

This version can also be compiled with Qt version 3.0.1 or higher. Furthermore it's now possible to link against the KDE2/KDE3 libraries for a better integration with the KDE desktop. QuiteInsane then uses the same style like other
KDE applications and the KDE print system.
Please read the file "INSTALL" for further details.

Unfortunately, there's a bug in version 0.5, which lets QuiteInsane crash in conjunction with various scanner. I've uploaded a patch, which hopefully fixes this problem (see download section).

This patch fixes a bug in qscrollbaroption.cpp (version 0.5)

-Unpack the patch
tar -zxvf floating_point_exception_patch.tar.gz

-Copy the file "qscrollbaroption.cpp_patch" to
quiteinsane-0.5/quiteinsane.... read more

New in version 0.5:

New features:
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-The preview image is updated continously during a preview scan. This is only possible, if the scan size is known a priori and
for image formats, that don't require buffering (e.g. like 1bit RGB mode).

-New filters/tools

Convert
Despeckle
Scale

Furthermore "Reset" buttons have been added to some image filters (gamma,brightness/contrast ...).... read more

Bugfix-release
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Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in version 0.4, which makes
QuiteInsane unusable with some scanners. This problem is obviously
triggered by a call to sane_control_option() after a call to sane_start().
Thanks to Frank Zago for his bug report. He also reported problems with
the PNM reader/writer (usage of PPM instead of PGM format), which are hopefully
also fixed in the new release.... read more

Here are some of the changes in QuiteInsane version 0.4:

Preview window
-Zoom function with undo/redo
-"Multi-selection mode"
You can select up to 20 regions within the preview window and scan them
in a single pass. (I call it SMASO - Select MAny Scan Once)

-Support for scanners, that don't use a unit of SANE_UNIT_MM for their
scan area options (e.g. SANE_UNIT_PIXEL or SANE_UNIT_NONE)
-The preview resolution now depends on the size of the preview window.... read more

A french translation of QuiteInsane is now available in the download section.
It will work with version 0.3alpha only !

Thanks to Yves Ceccone (http://www.yeccoe.org) for his efforts.

Michael

The most important news for version 0.3-alpha
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Authorization
-QuiteInsane now supports authorization with MD5 encrypted password transmission.

Image viewer
-Added some filters like Brightness/Contrast, Gamma, Posterize ...
-Selection rectangle; it's possible now, to start OCR on a selected part/to save a
selected part of
the scanned image.... read more

It seems, that the problems with preview scans and the Umax backend (scanner models Astra 2200/1220) could be solved (thanks to Oliver Rauch and Dr. Andreas von Heydwolff for bughunting/testing).
Please patch the file qscanner.cpp (under quiteinsane-0.2-alpha/quiteinsane) with the file qscanner_cpp_0_2_alpha_patch.
("patch qscanner.cpp qscanner_cpp_0_2_alpha_patch")
You can find the patch on QuiteInsanes project page (->Download).... read more

New features:
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-TIFF support (requires libtiff)
-New layout mode "List": works similar to the "Tabwidget" mode, but needs
less space (especially for backends which support a lot of options in many
different groups)
-Improved drag&drop mode: You can specify a filename/image format now
(option: automatic filename generation)
-German translation
-The preview window can be displayed within the main window (optional)
-Added "Scan" button to "Multiscan window"
-...... read more

This is just for testing... okay, however, here are also some news...

New website layout:
- News are displayed on QuiteInsanes homepage (now guess, why I'm writing
test news :)

A new release of QuiteInsane is coming soon:
Including:
- TIFF support
- new Layout
- main window with integrated preview (optional)
- improved "Drag and Drop" mode
- german translation
-bug fixes
-...

Stay tuned !