[sane-devel] Using "scanimage" under Gentoo

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Hi Rainer,

Dr Rainer Woitok writes:

> Ralph,
>
> On Tuesday, 2019-12-03 07:39:14 -0800, you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> You don't say if you did adf scanning successfully on Ubuntu although I
>> assume that is the case.
>> Could you confirm that?
>
> Yes, I can :-)
>
> The "scanimage" binary  I used under Ubuntu  worked with all the options
> regarding scan source, papersize, resolution, you name it ...

In that case, I suggest you upgrade to at least 1.0.28 and possibly even
to something later on our master branch.

Issues do get fixed, you know ;-)
As of writing 16 out of 29 pixma issues have been closed.

  https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=all&label_name[]=backend%2Fpixma

Hope this helps,
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