[Kde-imaging] Acquire Images vs xSANE preview time

[Cecil Watson]

2009/11/29 Kåre Särs <kare.sars at iki.fi>

> On Saturday 28 November 2009 23:07:06 Cecil Watson wrote:
> > I've just installed kipi-plugins 0.8.0 on my Arch Linux workstation.  In
> > testing my scanner (Epson CX3200), I noted the time it take to acquire an
> > image preview with Acquire Image vs xsane is very long.  A preview in
> xsane
> > takes second while the same image in Acquire Image can easily take over a
> > minute.
> >
> > Is there a setting I'm possibly missing?  Any further information I can
> > provide to help resolve this?
> >
>
> I guess that you are using the epson2 backend. That backend has a bug in
> version 1.0.20, that makes libksane (the library the plugin uses) scan the
> preview with very high resolution.
>
> I can provide a patch that I got from the epson2 maintainer, but the
> easiest
> is probably to install the epkowa backend until a new version of sane is
> released.
>
> On Kubuntu the epkowa backend has been in the libsane-extras, but now in
> Karmic it is in the iscan package.
>
> If you are not using the epson2 backend I'm interested to hear more about
> your
> setup.
>
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Thanks for the reply!  I am indeed using SANE 1.0.20.  Most Arch packages
don't get broken up into lib, -dev, etc...  I'll see about using epkowa.

-- 
Enjoy the day,

Cecil
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