[sane-devel] Fujitsu papersize problems, sane-backends-1.0.14

[Lee Howard]

On 2004.06.03 05:03 Oliver Schirrmeister wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 02 Juni 2004 22:32 schrieb Lee Howard:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have a Fujitsu M4097Ddm and am using sane-frontends-1.0.12 and
> > sane-backends-1.0.14.
> >
> > I am having trouble when using the --papersize options other than
> > A4/Letter.
> >
> > If I do:
> >
> > scanimage --source ADF --papersize Autodetect
> >
> > or:
> >
> > scanadf --source ADF --papersize Autodetect
> >
> > I get:
> >
> > sane_start: Invalid argument
> 
> Seems that autodetect doesn't work with the 4097. I've tried that
> option with
> the 3093 but it wasn's reliable.

Oh, alright.

By your comments here I assume that --papersize is used solely to 
indicate to the ADF the size of the paper that it is supposed to pull 
through, but does not indicate the size of the area that is to be 
scanned.  Is this correct?

I don't really understand the value of the --papersize option, then, 
since the scanner seems to deal with mixed-size and other-size paper 
regardless of what --papersize option I use.  E.g., if I use 
--papersize Letter, then it seems to be quite happy about scanning 
Letter and Legal sized paper mixed in the ADF.

> > If I use "--papersize Legal" then the scanning is performed, but the
> > image files are only letter/A4 size; the image is truncated at the
> > bottom.
> >
> 
> Did you set the -x and -y option? These options specify the scanning
> area.
> The default of x and y is 210x297 mm (A4).
> papersize specifies the page you enter in the adf (centered). -l -t -x
> -y is
> the scanning area relative to that page.

No, I did not set -l -t -x -y.  I had thought (hoped) that my 
--papersize indication would have made those indicators superfluous.  I 
see now that's not the case.

Thanks.

Lee.