As soon as I start scanning Skanlite opens and shows a scan area for lettersize paper format. I use A4 paper. Xsane, the gnome scan tool and the HP tools recognize the size correctly and also have a dialog to change it ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set your system scanner to paper size DIN A4 and try Skanlite 2. 3. Actual Results: Skanlite get's it wrong - shows lettersize paper no matter what Expected Results: should recognize the scanner format as specified in the scanner details/preferences just give us a button to change the format/paper size. that's it. p.
Hi, Thanks for the report. Skanlite does not try to set either A4 or Letter. The preview size is the maximum size of the scan area (flatbed or ADF). This size is returned by the scanner backend. Skanlite was designed with photo scanning in mind and would need a separate UI for document scanning. Document scanning has different needs and definitely would need those A4/Letter settings... I have been waiting for contributions for document scanning but so far I have not got any. Nobody seems interested and I myself have a limited time for this kind of fun :( /Kåre
thx for clarifying! So I have to use gimp then. That is a bit overkill but there seems no real alternative .. well, xsane also works ... Sry, I am not a programmer, can't contribute here ... :-( thx for your work, p.
No you do not have to use gimp :) You can add a selection to the preview window and it will scan only that area. But that is unfortunately lost when Skanlite is closed....
I do not understand: How can I add a selection that has exactly the size of A4 Paper? I want to save it as PDF afterwards for printing as A4 document... thx for your help, p. p.s.: By the way: What is the official document scanning application of the KDE project?
One preview scann should give you something to select...... Unfortunately there is no official document scannig app yet.
Hello, is this fixed for KDE 5? I still can't see any way to set the papersize correctly... Thx for the update, piedro
Ah, ok , I read your comments above again, there is noone doing that. Sry for bothering... I guess it has to stay that way. KDE seems the only Desktop Environment without any document scanning support. That is sad... Maybe I can fix it? You said the scanner reports the paper size. Report to which variable, which value? Can I edit this value (if it's reported - it has to be saved or written somewhere... and can be overwritten manually, can't it?) Where in which file would I have to correct this value? Thx for your help, piedro
I am still asking the same question after two years of noone answering (great bug reporting system btw!): Where in which file would I have to to correct the papersize value? It isn't hardcoded, is it? Thanks for helping, p.
Hi, There is no multi-page-PDF scanning application specifically designed for Plasma/KDE, but there is gscan2pdf that does create multi-page PDFs. http://gscan2pdf.sourceforge.net/ I think that might be the best option until somebody writes one for Qt/Plasma/KDE /Kåre
Skanlite has gained a paper size dialog since some time now, allowing you to select A4 paper size, for example. Also, if you are looking more towards multi-page document scanning, Skanpage is now available