[sane-devel] FUJITSU ScanSnap iX500 - default page format?

[Simon Matter]

Hi,

How about setting the default based on LANG or LC_PAPER environment vars?
Or provide an option to do so? The same is done for printing systems,
isn't it?

Regards,
Simon

> Frankly, your front-end program should save your preferences for
> things like page size, so you only set them once. I was pretty sure
> that xsane did so. For a front-end that does not, we could change
> sane-backends defaults on a per-backend basis, I suppose. I the
> backends I wrote (which includes fujitsu) it should be easy. For
> example, edit backend/fujitsu.c and search for 8.5 and 11 (the width
> and height of US Letter). Change those as required and recompile. A
> better long term solution would be to make the default sizes
> configurable from the backend's config file. I will think about the
> best way to do that.
>
> allan
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Philipp Huebner <debalance at debian.org>
> wrote:
>> Am 06.03.2017 um 15:54 schrieb m. allan noah:
>>> The fujitsu backend does not have an automatic size option. The page
>>> and image sizes default to US Letter, which is wider than A4. Perhaps
>>> you are seeing some feature of your frontend program. Which frontend
>>> are you using?
>>
>> You're probably right. xsane and gscan2pdf default to letter, only
>> simple-scan defaults to automatic.
>>
>> I would still be interested in changing the default from letter to A4.
>>
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