KDE Scanning software

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 01:42 +0200, Martin Kho wrote:
> 2009/7/2 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 23:02 +0200, Sven Lankes wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:42:15AM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >>
> >> >> The skanlite package is waiting for cvs creation. It'll enter rawhide
> >> >> and F10/F11-Testing sometime this week.
> >>
> >> > Thanks for the info, I'll be happy to test it out on my rawhide box
> >> > once available.
> >>
> >> skanlite is built know. It should show up in rawhide and in updates-
> >> testing for F-10 and F-11 after the next respective pushes.
> >>
> >> Anyone who wants to test it, can also get the package directly
> >> from koji:
> >>
> >> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8717
> >>
> >> Please leave feedback in bohdi if you've tested it:
> >>
> >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/skanlite
> >
> > I did a quick test on my HP Photosmart C5180. It works fine, except
> > there are very few options compared to what appears in the help document
> > (BTW, at least it *has* a help doc, so kudos for that), i.e. no
> > bit-depth, image intensity, gamma correction etc. Since I don't know if
> > this is a bug or a feature, I've refrained from posting to Bodhi for the
> > moment. Maybe it's limitation of the device, or of the SANE driver.
> > Xsane complains about a missing ICM profile so maybe that's related.
> >
> > poc
> >
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> 
> Your scanner is not (yet) supported by SANE. See this link:
> http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-mfgs-cvs.html#Z-HEWLETT-PACKARD
> 
> Your device uses a HP backend, if i am correct.

Yes, that's right. Note that it actually does work for my purposes, but
obviously wouldn't suit everyone. In fact the hplip package provided by
HP just calls Xsane for scanning.

poc