[sane-devel] Putting a scan into a tiff file

[Joachim Backes]

On 19-Feb-2003 Peter Kirchgessner wrote: 
>  Hi Joachim,
>  
>  thank you for the test file. You are saving the TIFF-files with a 
>  JPEG-compression in xsane. At least xpaint is not capable of handling 
>  JPEG-compressed TIFF-files correctly.

And: ImageMagick
And: xv
And: ???

If such a lot of tools have problems with tiff's standardly produced
by xsane, than the defaults of xsane should be changed to the solution
you are outlining below.

But: 1. I did not find any control in the xsane preferences menu
        for changing this tiff compression mode.
     2. When saving a scan (to tiff), I did not find any control
        in the save menu for changing the tiff compression mode.

Question: how to change?

Regards

Joachim Backes

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>  As a workaround you can save the TIFF-files with another compression in 
>  xsane.
>  
>  Sincerely
>  
>  Peter
>  
>  Joachim Backes schrieb:
> > Having problems when using sane with the following components:
> > 
> >         sane-backends-1.0.10
> >         sane-frontends-1.0.10
> >         xsane-0.90
> > 
> > Saving the scanned input into a tiff file will generate a
> > corrupt tiff file. This is independent from the scanner
> > model and/or scanning gray/color.
> > 
> > Both "xpaint" or "display" (a part of ImageMagick) abort with
> > segmentation violation when opening such a tiff file.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Joachim Backes
> > 
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