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Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)

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Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> wrote:
> On 2014-10-04, JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> wrote:
>>...
>> xsane has what seems to me a marvelous way of letting you specify
>> the desired scan area by dragging your mouse over a full scan preview.
>> I've got 10"x12" originals, so I needed the tabloid-size MFC-J6920DW,
>> which seems to be the smallest common size large enough for 10"x12".
>> But I was afraid I'd have to crop the pdf's afterwards, as there's
>> no standard 10"x12" papersize. But xsane does it perfectly.
>> In fact, the scanner even stops before scanning the entire 17" length
>> of its flatbed. So xsane must really know how to talk to it.
>> Thanks for all your help, np,
> 
> If/when you get the command-line tool working without
> segfaulting, scanimage lets you choose the scan area.  For
> example, I have the following C-shell script to scan an image so
> that piping the output through pnmtops to lpr gives an 8.5x11"
> copy on my particular laser printer that is as close to exact
> size and location as I could get.
>    if ( $?color ) then
>      set mode = '--mode Color'
>    else if ( $?gray ) then
>      set mode = '--mode Gray'
>    else
>      set mode = ''
>    endif
> 
>    scanimage -d hp $mode -l 8 -t 4 -x 203 -y 267 > $outfile
> HTH

Thanks, Robert. That'll definitely help if/when I can get it
working. I take it you have. Just curious -- what make/model
scanner are you using? And what linux distribution (I doubt
that's relevant, but just in case...)?
   I'd looked at the man scanimage page, but just carefully
enough to test it, and missed those -x and -y options, which,
on second look, they seem to have hidden underneath the examples
and -l option, with no separate paragraph of their own.
Thanks for the info,
-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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(In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 00:46 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-10-02 22:17 -0400
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0100
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-03 11:41 +0000
      Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 06:28 +0000
        Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-04 09:39 +0100
          Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-04 12:46 +0000
            Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:08 +0000
              Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 03:36 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2014-10-05 03:43 +0000
                Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-10-05 08:48 +0000
  Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) notbob <notbob@nothome.com> - 2014-10-03 16:26 +0000
    Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1) John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2014-10-04 04:06 +0000

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