sane as a gimp plug-in.

Ricardo Muggli (ricardo@calvin.net)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 03:52:46 -0500 (CDT)

I know this topic has been hit on a few times during the existence on this
mailing list, but none of the replies seem to work. The problem I am
having is after linking xscanimage as it says to in xscanimage(1) man
page, ( ln -s /usr/local/bin/xscanimage ~/.gimp/plug-ins/ )
I get this error when gimp querys the plug-ins:

/root/.gimp/plug-ins/xscanimage: illegal option -- g
Usage: xscanimage [OPTION]... [DEVICE]

Start up graphical user interface to access SANE (Scanner Access Now
Easy) devices.

-h, --help display this help message and exit
-V, --version print version information
wire_read: unexpected EOF

Now if I try some of the suggestions from the archives of this list...

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I think there aren't any switches, you have to compile and install gtk and
gimp
first and then type configure of sane and sane will be configured
automatically
with gimp-support. So simply type make distclean with sane and configure
again.

-- 
Mathias Weigt 
p5iba@medchem2.pharmazie.uni-halle.de


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I had gimp gimp-0.99.pre11-3.5 already installed and had installed
gtk+970606-davidm over that. So I tried doing a make distclean,
./configure, make, and make install again. I got the same error as above.


Then I tried this:


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Looks like xscanimage got compiled without GIMP support (see
HAVE_LIBGIMP_GIMP_H in include/sane/config.h).  Without that support,
xscanimage won't recognize the -gimp option that GIMP is feeding it.


Does your system have libgimp/gimp.h installed in a strange place
(/usr/local/include should work fine, for example)?


        --david
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from David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@azstarnet.com>.
I uncommented and defined the HAVE_LIBGIMP_GIMP_H line in
include/sane/config.h but it would error out during the compilation on
xscanimage. I don't have the exact error though.


Then I tried this:


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i discovered the following: file libgimp/gimp.h includes glib/glib.h
on my system, there didn't exist a directory glib although i had
installed the gimp and the patched sane libs in a normal way.
i changed the line in gimp.h saying #include <glib/glib.h> to #include
<glib.h> and ran configure again. then it found libgimp/gimp.h and
everything compiled just fine. 


fritz 
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from Fritz Jetzek <6jetzek@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> with better luck.


During the startup of gimp I get this error:
/root/.gimp/plug-ins/xscanimage: Segmentation fault caught
[n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack trace, [a]ttach to process: n


and I type n to do nothing. Gimp starts up and I can scan fine and
everything. Is there anyway I can get this working correctly? I had Sane
.61 working when I used RedHat 4.1.


I am using Debian 1.3.1 (sounds like the placement on the libs may be
distribution dependent. Maybe there is a fix for the configure script?)
Sane 0.63
Gimp .99.pre11-3.5 




Any suggestions as to what I could do to fix this would be greatly
appreciated. 


thanks for any help and a big thanks for this great software. It is a lot
more fun to use sane than in the day when I once used Windows. 
To scan in windows: Open scan module, scan, close window, - don't like
scan, open scan module, scan close window, - don't like sane, on and on.
Using SANE it is: open sane(through gimp), scan, If I don't like it just
scan again. It is a lot easier to teach someone how to scan through linux
than it is through Windows.


Also I was wondering if there is any sort of de-screening methods I could
use for scanning in a printed image with a screen. ie a magazine,
newspaper, etc.


And one last thing. You may have noticed that I have been starting up GIMP
and SANE as the user root. I cannot seem to get a normal user to be able
to scan. I don't even get the umax:/dev/sg0 option on start-up of SANE.
This sort of seems like it is a permission problem. Does this sound
reasonable? How could I fix it?


ls -l /dev/sg0
crw-------   1 root     sys       21,   0 May 27 19:50 /dev/sg0




cat /usr/local/etc/sane.d/umax.conf 
/dev/sg0




ls -l /usr/local/etc/sane.d/umax.conf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root            9 Sep 11 04:25
/usr/local/etc/sane.d/umax.conf




NOTE: I did not find a sane-user mailing list so I assumed that this is
the correct place to post this. If this is not the correct place, could
someone please tell me where this should go?


thanks, 


- ricardo@calvin.net





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