Re: Highscreen RealScan

Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooij@caiw.nl)
Sun, 10 May 1998 22:59:41 +0200 (MET DST)

On Sun, 10 May 1998, Brian Schau wrote:

> * sigh * I've spent an whole evening getting this scanner to work
> ... Status:
>
> - Downloaded and installed sane-0.72. By doing so, I broke 'gimp'.
> And now I can't get gimp compiled (can't find gtk-config) ... so now I
> am downloading gtk-sources (and they propably won't compile since I am
> not using glibc ...!) Talk about bad luck.
>
> - It still won't scan colors. It places the three layers side by
> side. Well, at least it scans ...

Sounds odd enough. Perhaps you should use a version of gimp and gtk that
can handle the 'old' libc stuff.

>
> - When done acquiring a preview, xscanimage closes all open xscanimage
> windows when I close the preview window. Is this a bug? Or a
> "feature"? Or is it just me? ;o)

It is a feature since someone was kind enough to document it. A patch was
also posted and should be in the archive.

Hugo.

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