[sane-devel] SANE on Mac OS X

[m. allan noah]

On 8/10/08, Dan Tappin <dan.tappin at wavefront.ca> wrote:
> Hi Allan,
>
>  I am now looking at the CLI to get this working.

good idea. i never use a gui myself.

>  Here is my command:
>
>  scanimage --format=tiff --source="ADF Front" --page-width=279.406
> --page-height=431.808 > test.tiff
>  scanimage: rounded value of page-width from 279.406 to 279.406
>  scanimage: rounded value of page-height from 431.808 to 431.808
>  scanimage: rounded value of br-x from 215.872 to 215.872
>  scanimage: rounded value of br-y from 279.364 to 279.364
>
>  The output is still 8.5" x 11".  I must be missing something here.

-x and -y

allan

>
>  Dan
>
>
>  On Aug 9, 2008, at 4:45 PM, m. allan noah wrote:
>
>
> > On 8/9/08, Dan Tappin <dan.tappin at wavefront.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > I recently purchased a used Fijitsu fi-4530C scanner and had planned
> > > to use SANE as there are no native Mac drivers for this scanner.
> > >
> > > Couple of issues I can't seem to figure out:
> > >
> > > 1.) Scan Size
> > >
> > > I bought this scanner because it can scan tabloid (11" x 17") paper
> > > but when I scan all I get is a letter (8.5" x 11") sized cropping of
> > > the original.  I have played with all the TWAIN options and even
> > > selected the "largest possible" scan size.
> > >
> >
> > there should be page-height and page-width options, which defaults to
> > US letter. the adf needs to know how big the paper is so it can center
> > the width and detect multi-feed via length. the scan area is then
> > clamped to the page size. I guess on the flatbed these are kind of
> > useless.
> >
> >
> > > 2.) Mac Frontend
> > >
> > > I have tried ImageCapture, Graphic Converter and a few front ends out
> > > there but none of them seem to work properly nor use the ADF feature.
> > > Any other options I am missing here.
> > >
> >
> > i dont know anything about mac specific frontends. can you use one
> > that works with sane directly like xsane or xscanimage instead of all
> > this sane to twain stuff? what you are looking for is a 'Source'
> > option
> >
> >
> > > 3.) Duplex Scanning
> > >
> > > My scanner can scan duplex - is this supported via SANE?
> > >
> >
> > most definitely. set the source to "ADF Duplex". also requires that
> > your frontend keep asking for pages repeatedly.
> >
> > allan (fujitsu backend author)
> > --
> > "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
> >
>
>


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