[sane-devel] How to combine scanned images together and print them as a file

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Henning,

On Monday 03 March 2003 05:22 pm, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> -snip -
> Which version of xsane? Which version of sane-backends?

$ rpm -qa|grep sane
sane-backends-1.0.7-6
sane-frontends-1.0.7-2
xsane-0.84-2
sane-backends-devel-1.0.7-6

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New discovery.  Scanning new images both on colour and grey scale respect=
ively
scan resolution 75
full range

1) convert all images (colour) to .pdf file.  It is OK without problem  N=
o=20
warning popup
2) convert all images (grey scale) to .pdf file.  Problem occured.  3 sam=
e=20
images lying side-by-side on each page.  Also no warning pop-up

> For some reason convert doesn't like the 3rd jpg file. Maybe something
> went wrong when you saved it? Try other programs that can handle jpeg
> files (e.g. gimp, display, qiv). If they also complain about a broken
> file, well, the file is broken :-)
>
> I would assume that this is an xsane bug but saving jpgs with xsane
> works pretty fine here.
>
> You can try other file formats in xsane. jpg makes only sense if you
> scan color images like photos.

Noted with thanks

> With which program have you viewed them? Does it also happen when you
> just convert them to a different file type?
> E.g. convert linux-3.jpg linux-3.tiff

Konqueror (Home icon at bottom tool-bar)

B.Regards
Stephen