[sane-devel] Scan zoom / shrink questions

[m. allan noah]

Sounds like a print driver problem.

allan

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Keith Locke <rkeith1084 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Allan.
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> That was a good question... because:
> I went back and found the earliest scans to pdf with this machine, which were from November.  They were also shrunken.  (Did I feel stupid!).  Had to break out the ruler and compare to originals.
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> All my earlier scans (before November) were with another machine where the scanner used to sit, an old Hardy Heron machine.  So, I am embarrassed to admit that this problem must be with this machine from the time I first used it to scan.
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> (I didn't notice it before because I was mostly scanning ads and notes that were fed into GIMP, and not full-size pages to print.  And the occasional page to FAX.  I hadn't printed those, so I hadn't noticed it.  The FAX recipients were probably noticing it and never said a word.)
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> I also HAD a different machine with Intrepid on it that didn't shrink things noticeably, but it is long gone, fried hard drive, motherboard, and all.  It didn't noticeably shrink pages.  In fact, using XSane, they were dead-on sizewise.  Same scanner I've had for years, my first.  A survivor.
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> So given that I now realize the problem with this machine has been the same from the beginning, is there a fix?
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> Keith
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> --- On Fri, 2/25/11, m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: m. allan noah <kitno455 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Scan zoom / shrink questions
>> To: "Keith Locke" <rkeith1084 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 8:06 AM
>> Print an old pdf from before this
>> started happening. Is it also shrunken?
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>> allan
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