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

From	Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: (In)sane for Brother MFC-J6920DW (on slackware 14.1)
Date	2014-10-05 03:08 +0000
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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

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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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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