[sane-devel] HP1120n (hpljm1005) Debian Lenny (armel) missing bottom of page
m. allan noah
kitno455 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 12:44:05 UTC 2009
> I've tried scanning at the lowest res supported by the device with scanimage
> (75dpi). Opening the .pnm file produced with Gimp I noticed that the
> dimensions are exactly the ones of an A4, BUT resolution of the image is
> 72dpi not 75!
that is only because the pnm format does NOT store the resolution, and
gimp defaults to 72.
So scaling it back to 75 I get the actual scanned portion
> dimensions which is about 265mm x 205mm.
> The problem shows up already in the preview "pre-scan" so at the lowest res.
I dont want the physical dimensions, just the pixel size. Does
reducing the -y parameter reduce the height?
can you send us the output of scanimage --help
allan
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