Hello everyone,

I've been trying to get Suse 10.0 OSS up and running for a while. I'm nearly there, but I have a scanning problem which I can't solve.

I've got an HP Office Jet 4215. When scanning a document using XSane, I always get about 4 cm of blank space added to the bottom of the image. This happens regardless of anything I do regarding specifying the size of the document etc.

I also have a machine running Mandriva 2006 Free Edition (new to Linux, experimenting with some different distributions), and this problem does not occur under Mandriva. As far as I can tell, I've got the same versions of sane, xsane and hplip/hpijs on both machines.

Can anyone tell me why I get this extra blank space with SUSE but not with Mandriva, and how I might be able to fix it? Any advice would be gratefully received.

Thanks

James.

Just to be clear after you do a preview scan you then go to the preview window and change the crop (the dotted lines) to include only the image you want correct? I've noticed when I do a preview scan xsane tries to determine what the crop should be and it usually adds extra space on the bottom so i have to move the bottom crop line up.


The only other setting I could see that would cause the scanner to possably add some space on the bottom would be if you have your aspect ratio (Right most button on the bottom of the preview window) set to something other than "free"

My setup:

xsane 0.97
HP G55 all-in-one
SuSE 10.0 OSS

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. It was a simple fix - I just changed the Preset Area in the Preview window to 'DIN A4 port.', which is what I wanted (A4 documents are the only things I ever scan in), and the scan comes out perfectly.

It also retains the setting, so I can scan stuff straight in without having to do a preview - previews are a bit of a nuisance when you're using an ADF scanner because the document has to go through twice!

One other question though - can XSane save a scanned document as a PDF? I've got all the other options (Postscript, TIFF, JPG etc) but a PDF option would be really useful. I'm sure I saw it on the list of file formats after one of my previous installations (I've killed the machine several times over the last few weeks messing around with stuff I don't understand!) but it doesn't seem to be there now. Not particularly important, but it would be nice to have it, if possible.

Regards

James.

Upgraded XSane to version 0.99 using package xsane-0.991-0.pm.0 from the repository ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.0/

Now have the option to scan to PDF.