Bug 369007

Summary: Greyscale images saved as colour
Product: [Applications] Skanlite Reporter: Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component: generalAssignee: Kåre Särs <kare.sars>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: a.stippich, justin.zobel
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Tristan Miller 2016-09-18 19:24:47 UTC
With my scanner, Skanlite gives me the option of scanning in greyscale or in colour.  However, images that are scanned in greyscale are saved with RGB-space colour (at least when PNG is selected as the output format).  This needlessly inflates the size of the image by up to three times.

When Skanlite saves an image that has been scanned in greyscale, could you please have it save the image in greyscale?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Scan an image in greyscale.
2. Save the image.


Actual Results:  
3. Even though the image is in shades of grey, it contains separate red, green, and blue channels.

Expected Results:  
3. The image should be a genuine greyscale image, with only a single channel.
Comment 1 Justin Zobel 2020-11-24 05:46:22 UTC
Thanks for the report Tristan.

My scanner doesn't have a greyscale option so I can't test this.

Can you please test and confirm if this issue is still occurring or if this bug report can be marked as resolved. I've set the bug status to "needsinfo" pending your response, please change back to "reported" or "resolved" when you respond, thanks.
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2020-12-09 04:34:06 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with
no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2020-12-24 04:34:55 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 4 Tristan Miller 2021-08-22 20:22:42 UTC
Yes, this problem is still reproducible with Skanlite 2.2.0.0.  (Sorry for the delay in responding.)
Comment 5 Alexander Stippich 2021-08-24 19:20:08 UTC
Actually, there is a chance that this has been fixed with the recent 21.08 release in KDE Gear. When you update to this version in the future, please report back if this issue persists.
Comment 6 Alexander Stippich 2021-09-03 14:12:19 UTC
Setting to NEEDSINFO again. I'm pretty sure it's fixed with the latest release.
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2021-09-18 04:35:48 UTC
Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as
possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug
tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with
no change in 30 days the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the
wiki located here:
https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

If you have already provided the requested information, please
mark the bug as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is
ready to be confirmed.

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
Comment 8 Tristan Miller 2021-09-19 19:19:03 UTC
Yes, the problem seems to be fixed in 21.08.