[ale] Scanning under Linux

[Paul Manno]

Are you using the sane plugin for Gimp?  It's just two steps if you do, 
scan (aquire image), then print.  Probably can be scripted in Gimp with 
time to think about how to do it.  If you've not already done so, do take 
a look at sane, Xsane and the sane Gimp plugin to set default device, the 
resolution, color depth and page size.

-- Paul

On 26 Nov 2003, Chris Fowler wrote:

> I'm trying to get it all to work right.  The nice part about the UMAX
> software for winbloze was that it had a copy utility that was smart
> tweaked to be a copier.  
> 
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 13:45, Paul Manno wrote:
> > Chris,
> > 
> > I (and my wife) use an old Umax 1200S on a Linux box all the time for both 
> > scanning and creating various format files including PDFs.  It *is* nice 
> > to be able to scan, play internet radio, be a print and file server and 
> > correctly burn a CD all at the same time.
> > 
> > Haven't tried to write the PDF directly from Gimp though it should work 
> > fine.  Instead, I create a PostScript file and just use the ps2pdf 
> > converters.  I have considered setting up a "printer" queue to handle the 
> > conversion but never got around to doing that.
> > 
> > Hope the data is helpful.
> > 
> > -- Paul
> > 
> > On 26 Nov 2003, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > 
> > > Amazing.  I got my old Astra 1220P working.  It is nice to be
> > > able to scan and work on the computer at the same time.  Normally
> > > I used this scanner to scan documents in and convert them to PDF.  Is
> > > anyone doing that under Linux?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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