Re: [sm3600-devel] /dev/scanner and SM3700 scanning

[Marian E. <mar...@fr...>]

Nathan Kontny wrote:

> Thank you so much for your help on these scanner problems. Thanks so much
> for putting this driver together in the first place. :)

You are welcome :-)

> My next problem is that i do a "scanimage > newImage.pnf(I have done tiff
> too)". It gives me the file. But when i open that newImage file up in the
> Gimp, i get all sorts of errors. The major one is something like "Error
> reading section 18, expected 3900 lines, but there ar 4000. Or something
> like that. There are actually a couple errors at this point. I think the
> other one is "Enexpected end of file". Sorry i don't have the exact error
> messages handy, but I just got the scanner working last night.
> 
> Does anyone think that this is a problem with the scanner? The Gimp? Anyone
> see these errors?

As far as I can tell this is no problem with the scan stuff itself.
Perhaps PNF (you mean PNG, right?) is broken. A good bet is (often)
"portable anymap" (PNM, PBM, PGM). Try this, but I guess, that scanning
to STDOUT is a source for headache, because ou have to specify the
format in any way, be it by means of the file extension.

If You want a "second decision", you might want to use

- xv/xli/ee as viewer
- "file" for a quick check of the "real" format (or what the application
might think about it)
- "xsane" as scan frontend (I really recommend this great program). It
works as GIMP plugin too.

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Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Yours sincerely

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