[sane-devel] Lineart mode is all skewed up!

Henning Meier-Geinitz henning@meier-geinitz.de
Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:25:01 +0100


Hi,

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:50:45PM -0800, Rob Tanner wrote:
> >I'm not sure if this was the case for sane-backends 1.0.7 but
> >nowerdays the HP multi-function devices are supported by the "hpoj"
> >backend which is not part of the SANE distribution. Have a look at
> >http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml , there is also a mailing
> >list.
> >
> >You can find out which backend you use by running "scanimage -L". The
> >part before the first ":" is the name of the backend.
> >
> 
> Based on the ouput of "scanimage -L" I am indeed running hpoj.  Is the 
> lineart issue a backend issue? 

Most probably, yes. At least I haven't heard of similar issues with
xsane. But to be sure, you could use the latest version of xsane. That
works here definitely, at least ith Mustek scanners.

> If so, do you know of any helpful lists to which I might post? 

See above, there is a link to mailing lists on the hpoj pages.

Bye,
  Henning