<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Maiandra GD'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 05 March 2009 07:16:15 Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> On Thursday 05 March 2009 04:22:10 James Richard Tyrer wrote:<br>
> > Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> > <SNIP><br>
> ><br>
> > > You might note a previous post of mine today where I could not print a<br>
> > > pdf with okular as it asks me what filter to use and then won't do<br>
> > > anything with any of those offered for selection.<br>
> ><br>
> > That is very strange. I have KDE-4.2.1 from source and all I can say is<br>
> > that it works OK for me. However, if you have >= 4.2.0, I would report<br>
> > it as a bug.<br>
><br>
> Check my previous reply to you, I'm not quite sure if we are comparing<br>
> apples to apples, perhaps my qt isn't up to yours.<br>
><br>
> > > I'm only interested in a pdf reader which IMHO kpdf did a better job of<br>
> > > for me than acroread, Dunno about the "more features" I just want<br>
> > > three: view, preview and print. Small and simple is nice.<br>
> ><br>
> > I see your point and with people using Dolphin, we do need an app that<br>
> > is basically just a frame for the KParts. I would suggest that if you<br>
> > just need the basic functions that you use the Okular part in Konqueror<br>
> > rather than opening the app.<br>
><br>
> Anything will do for a reader I suppose but yesterday I was revising a<br>
> flyer, checking to see if the edits were in the revised pdf and then<br>
> checking the print preview before printing. Kpdf seemed to produce a<br>
> better facsimili of a pdf both as a reader then as a print preview so I can<br>
> live without it but I have not figured out why it is asking me what filter<br>
> to use. It don't know and neither do I.<br>
><br>
> > > I really could care less whether I use kooka or not if the replacement,<br>
> > > scanlite, has some documentation so maybe I can figure out how to get<br>
> > > it to see my networked scanner which xsane has no problem doing and it<br>
> > > to uses the sane backend.<br>
> ><br>
> > Won't help you now, but if it doesn't find your networked scanner,<br>
> > report the bug.<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure it is a bug maybe a limitation (no Fud intended Anne) but I<br>
> have found the problem.<br>
><br>
> Scanlite is a frontend for sane and the utiltiy sane-find-scanner does not<br>
> see my scanner although I can use the sane cli command "scanimage -L", i.e.<br>
> list, to identify my scanner:<br>
><br>
> rick@rick:~$ scanimage -L<br>
> device `net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is<br>
> a Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one<br>
><br>
> I'd quess that skanlite parses the ouput of sane-find-scanner to create a<br>
> list of scanner device(s) and so it will not open for me because<br>
> sane-find-scanner does not list my networked scanner.<br>
><br>
> However, I can open skanlite and scan if I run this command in konsole:<br>
><br>
> skanlite -d <br>
> net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ' is a<br>
> Hewlett-Packard PSC_2350_series all-in-one<br>
><br>
> Thats fine and dandy but it Thats cli and one of those unmemorable commands<br>
> so if I want to take the easy way out its a matter of editing the skanlite<br>
> in kmenuedit so that the command entry looks like this:<br>
><br>
> scanlite %u -d<br>
> net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ<br>
><br>
> and if I want an icon that works I will need to edit<br>
> /usr/share/applications/kde-4/scanlite.desktop so it looks like this.<br>
><br>
> [Desktop Entry]<br>
> Type=Application<br>
> Exec=skanlite -caption "%c" %i -d<br>
> net:192.168.1.4:hpaio:/usb/PSC_2350_series?serial=MY493C10JCKJ<br>
> Icon=skanlite<br>
> X-DocPath=skanlite/index.html<br>
> Terminal=false<br>
> Name=Skanlite<br>
> <snip><br>
><br>
> Note that <snip> was mine and the file is much longer due to<br>
> internationalisation. Also there is no icon for scanlite so I'll have to<br>
> use some other image and provide a path after "Icon=" maybe I'll use the<br>
> old kpdf icon just for the heck of it :^)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>This ubuntu bug report didn't show up in the first couple pages when I did a search using www.google.com/linux but it was on the first page using www.google.com.au. It would've saved me some time.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/skanlite/+bug/311953<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Obviously a skanlite problem no matter what desktop as I believe ubuntu is gnome and kubuntu kde.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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http://rickmiles.com.au<br>
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