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author | Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org> | 2005-12-03 14:51:29 +0100 |
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committer | Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@mapreri.org> | 2014-10-03 14:05:16 +0000 |
commit | f1ab1663d876dc4a57a5c60f0c741957972f6036 (patch) | |
tree | f039caca02b838f1a0d33a70cc77f68247e3b933 /xsane.FAQ | |
parent | 91e0f8f4872781ae41c44747330935d6420534e6 (diff) | |
parent | 947f2ec5da522dbe5b474fc7031cd3f224bd7ead (diff) |
Imported Debian patch 0.98b-1debian/0.98b-1
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-rw-r--r-- | xsane.FAQ | 30 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 24 deletions
@@ -1,26 +1,8 @@ +Q: scanimage does work, xsane does not (or vice versa). What can I do? -================================================================================ -Q: Have you considered adding a scan to PDF multipage functionality to XSane? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -A: -I already made up my mind about scanning to a pdf file. -The pdf format is a bad format for scanning images. -When you scan a text document to a pdf file then there are -two large differences to usual pdf documents: +A1: in most cases this is caused by at least two installations of sane-backends. +Make sure only ony sane-backends version is installed. -- the size of the scanned documents is about 10-50 times larger than -the size of a comparable text document -- you can not search such a document - -So scanning text and saving it as image to pdf is no good idea. - -And for scanning photos: -The PDF format is a document format, more comparable -to the Microsoft Word format than to jpeg, png or Tiff. -When you scanned 100 pictures to a pdf document, how -will you extract one of the pictures? - -I plan to include multipage tiff and postscript files. -But not in the near future - I do not have the time for it -in the moment. -================================================================================ +A2: may be /usr/local/lib/sane, /usr/lib/sane or /lib/sane is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf +this is not allowed. Remove theses lines from /etc/ld.so.conf and call +ldconfig as root. |